Yesterday I spent hours on the phone with American Express, Door Dash, Venmo and GoDaddy.com. All issues which I guess were modern and technology related.
I paid an electrician last week through Venmo, his choice, and he still had not received the money. I called American Express since they were the ones I used to back up the payment, and they said it was approved and went through. As I was on the AmEx website I saw a $9.99 charge for Door Dash, which I had not used for months.
AmEx told me to contact both Venmo and Door Dash. I did.
Venmo, which is almost impossible to navigate, said the reason the payment was held up was because the electrician did not verify his phone number. I contacted him and to make a long story short, he was incapable of doing this one simple task, so I sent him a check.
Door Dash was charging me $9.99 a month for some sort of service I never signed up for. They easily refunded my AmEx card for the four months that they charged me for and I canceled my Door Dash account, for screwing me over, when I know I never signed up for whatever service it was.
As for GoDaddy, they added some sort of thing to my email accounts called the Quarantine List, which seems to quarantine everything and I have to go in and one by one approve or block emails. It was even blocking my own emails which I sent to myself. I send out my cartoons via one email address for example and it sends me a copy to the same email address. So it was blocking itself!
And I was being charged for this Quarantine service, like the Door Dash service, which I never signed up for. It looks like this is the new thing, sign people up for things they don’t know they are paying for and hope they don’t catch it.
Anyway, I think I solved all the problems. I was able to undo the money I sent through Venmo and I got a full refund from Door Dash. I didn’t hear back from GoDaddy yet, but I did manage to turn off the Quarantine thing.
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