Well I preordered the watch as soon as it became available, and I had 890$ enough credit to purchase it and now my order is processing. And tonight, I went to go check my account summary of my card that I used to buy the apple watch and it's saying $770... Is my order gonna get cancelled and lose my place in line or ?!?!
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What happens if you don't have enough credit to buy the watch?
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Apple will try to charge your card at the moment they are shipping. If the charge fails then the shipment will be held and you'll get an email about it. Your order won't be cancelled, they'll usually just put a hold on it until you sort out payment with them.
What happens if you don't have enough credit to buy the watch?
This. You will receive confirmation that you had insufficient funds. You will then be given the option to adjust your payment method and pay for the watch. If you do so on the same day, you will still receive your watch as normal.
This. You will receive confirmation that you had insufficient funds. You will then be given the option to adjust your payment method and pay for the watch. If you do so on the same day, you will still receive your watch as normal.
Don't buy something you barely have money for. One wouldn't buy a Rolls Royce if they can only afford a Honda.
The minute you make a public comment, people will say whatever they want about it. If you don't want someone to talk about your finances, I suggest you never make a public post about finances.
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My American Express was charged for the complete order the minute I pressed order. It was dropped three days later of course.
As long as he can afford the monthly payments you are in no position to tell him what he should or shouldn't do.
There are so many red flags as to why you shouldn't be buying this watch just from your original question, but the fact that it's surprising to you that there isn't enough of a balance now or that you didn't manage your card balance well enough in this last 10 days since we ordered
wow. Don't buy this watch. Seriously.
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He posted on a public forum about his finances. What do you expect?
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He posted on a public forum about his finances. What do you expect?
Call the bank and ask them for a $500 credit increase. If ur account is in good standing (no late payments, etc) and you've had the card for more then a year (maybe even 6 months) they should do it no problem.
But my credit card still hold the charged at full amount
They credit never dropped off.If when the orders get shipped and apple still have to charge again, there won't enough credit for my orders.
For all we know, the OP is using a disposable prepaid second card to surreptitiously buy the watch for his wife because he doesn't want it showing up on their joint Visa black card statement.
Or maybe he is a poor student about to learn a valuable lesson through experience. Been there, done that, nobody could talk me out of it, glad I did it!
Learned lots of creative ways to spice-up ramen.
Or maybe he is a poor student about to learn a valuable lesson through experience. Been there, done that, nobody could talk me out of it, glad I did it!
Learned lots of creative ways to spice-up ramen.
Don't listen to the jackasses.
I use a pre-paid card for free to spend money every month because of savings and goals through my bank. However, sometimes I charge random recurring purchases to that card as well. Just ALWAYS make sure you can easily add money to that account within seconds- it just makes it so much more easy. I would never buy this through my main account at Simple so I understand you.
I am in the camp that believes this watch is more of a luxury or expensive toy to have. But it's not a necessity. If someone has to juggle their money around to purchase it. That may be a sign that the watch is not for them.
Actually, there's a big difference.
You meant shouldn't, as in it would be irresponsible to do so, therefore they should not do it.
What you said is that they wouldn't do it which, as we all know with the increasing amounts of personal debt, people very much do do it.
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I no longer have a credit card to check, but I'm sure the one I had charged me a fee if I over-payed (in order to stop people using ut as a charge card, I guess).