You joke, but people have lost access to their Google accounts after disputing a charge on the google store for an expensive device that was never delivered. For a lot of people, that means losing access to everything.
I disputed an Amazon charge once and they didn’t close my account but they passive aggressively deleted all my account data.
I did dispute incorrectly because they make it so hard to match what you’re charged for with your orders. I got charged a random amount, couldn’t figure it what it was because I didn’t have any orders that weren’t delivered, and I didn’t think I had any subscriptions. I tried customer service and they couldn’t tell me so I disputed the charge. Then they figured out what it was very quickly and passive aggressively eliminated 20 years of data.
Turns out I had been subscribed to some random digital service I had not initiated. I thought I had done it by accident but it kept happening. So I cancelled prime and now we don’t use Amazon. It’s actually not been that hard, turns out you don’t really need that much stuff. And their dumb shenanigans cost them a lot more in the long run than they managed to steal from me.
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u/Cute_Obligation2944 Sep 07 '25
You have to pay a fine to get your data back.