Steam charged me $1 upon setting my credit card

[Toasterdude]

Simple story of setting a credit card payment method, Steam charges me with $1. The credit card payment method is verified although I bought a game in steam its not showing in my credit card only the $1 charge. Does anyone know whats happening? I often dont use credit cards.

[999999999]

Verification amounts. They will go away in a couple days.

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You will get your dollar back they do that to make sure the card is active and working.

[Toasterdude]

Originally posted by R.I.P. Malcom Young From AC/DC:

You will get your dollar back they do that to make sure the card is active and working.

Yeah after buying the game I wanted, steam just removed my cc from payment option, I dont understand whats happening really

[999999999]

You didn't save it?

https://store.steampowered.com/checkout/?purchasetype=updatebillinginfo

[Toasterdude]

Originally posted by 999999999:

You didn't save it?

https://store.steampowered.com/checkout/?purchasetype=updatebillinginfo

Is setting up and saving a different thing? Because i did set one up and it was shown in my acc info

[999999999]

Yeah. You need to save it in order for it to be on your account for next time.

[Toasterdude]

Originally posted by 999999999:

Yeah. You need to save it in order for it to be on your account for next time.

Ah well that explains it, thanks a bunch. But does this mean that I cant refund my game?

[999999999]

No, it does not mean that. It is still in the system if you decide to refund it to your card. No worries there.

[koblongata]

Oh well, I came here looking for answers, verification amount made sense... but I REALLY think Steam should be more verbose about that.

[999999999]

Originally posted by koblongata:

Oh well, I came here looking for answers, verification amount made sense... but I REALLY think Steam should be more verbose about that.

KB articles are there for everyone...

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4530-wroa-3278

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6088-UDXM-7214#whatisit

[3xpada]

Will i still get the money even if i after i got charged then i removed my credit card?

[FreNZy]

What is the time for refund of steam in this case

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by koblongata:

Oh well, I came here looking for answers, verification amount made sense... but I REALLY think Steam should be more verbose about that.

No, actually this is STANDARD across everywhere on online payments, as Valve have to use the same banking procedures everyone else does.

So, you have to either tick a box to save your card details, or it has to be bannered that the details are saved automatically by default. Also, test amounts are normal too.

So no, it's not something Valve should do as nobody else does it, as it's the default way things run.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by E:

Will i still get the money even if i after i got charged then i removed my credit card?

Yes.

You need to understand how this works a bit better.

When you enter that card on your account, it is used at the POINT OF PURCHASE. If you remove the card afterwards, it doesn't matter because they have the data from the POINT OF PURCHASE. It's all right there.

As for your concern over that test payment. What happens when a payment is made is the money is "set aside" and doesn't actually leave your account until later. It just makes that amount be unavailable for now. Later on there is banking communication that verifies it (without going into finer detail) and the money is THEN withdrawn properly.

As this was a test debit, it will be "set aside" in your account, but that later verification will not happen, so it never gets taken and merely frees up after a short time.

I strongly recommend you look up how online payments work generally as I think you're confused about a few things. As I said before, they're all the same wherever you go because they have to use the ONE banking system there is.

[booty lord]

I set up my cc and its not showing up and it charged me 1€