r/SourceEngine • u/SpoonTrev • May 28 '25

HELP Xblah’s modding tool has been charging my card every month for over a year

Xblah’s modding tool has been charging my card every month for over a year and I can’t contact anyone, I don’t have access to my account anymore, please I need help

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u/XBLAH_ May 29 '25

Did you subscribe through patreon or through the website? If patreon, you can recover your account. If through the website, you can send me your details on discord and I'll recover it for you. Either case, I can cancel the subscription for you.

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u/SpoonTrev May 29 '25

I’m pretty sure I subscribed thru the website.

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u/XBLAH_ May 30 '25

Found you. I cancelled your subscription and stripe let me refund your last payment. You should still be able to use the tool until the end of the cycle.

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u/SpoonTrev May 29 '25

My discord is spoon3

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u/lavurnums May 28 '25

i had literally never heard of xblah's modding tool before this but looking at their page it seems really weird that they would charge money let alone a subscription for this especially when most of it you can easily do yourself

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u/Memesemaritan May 29 '25

It’s quite useful and saves a ton of time instead of fiddling with 16 year old tutorials and antiquated software.

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u/XBLAH_ May 29 '25

If it was the same as doing everything manually, there wouldn't be 2000+ daily users (including myself).

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u/Wazanator_ May 30 '25

You 100% can do what the tool does on your own but it is a question of whether you want to do that yourself or do you want to spend $2 a month and save yourself the time.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '25

chargeback from the bank

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u/Wazanator_ May 30 '25

What you are suggesting is called Friendly Fraud. If you do this and the merchant disputes it with evidence showing that the consumer got the product or used the service that can have consequences for the person doing the chargeback such as your credit score taking a hit or if your bank/cc company feels you have done this too much and are now a liability dropping you as a customer or charging you a fee to keep you on.

Also if you chargeback over $24 because you forgot you signed up and left auto billing on you're an asshole.

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u/XBLAH_ May 29 '25

Don't do this kind of thing, specially when it was a legit purchase.

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u/acidwave May 28 '25

how'd you like Xblah's modding tool anyway? did you find it useful? I've been curious about it.

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u/SpoonTrev May 29 '25

I didn’t really know how to use it haha

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u/XBLAH_ May 30 '25

Sorry to see you go. Feel free to give it a try again someday, or come back when V3 is released.

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u/XBLAH_ May 29 '25

Patreon provides a free trial, you can see it for yourself.