Ok so it starts like this I was hungery and wanted sushi so i checked my checking account to see if i have enough money in there... Then i see that mandarake charged me 86.56$ on 2/7/07 and then again on the same day for 2.60$... which i havent purchased anything on there since christmas. Has this happened to anyone else? And is mandarake good at figuring this stuff out? I have checked my mandarake account and it shows nothing that i have purchased. I feel so used... and my bank wont do anything till i contact mandarake themselves which i just did...... so any info or tips please help me...
Last edited by Naga on Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
When I pay for my Mandarake winnings, the card I use is immediately authorized for the amount I owe. After 2-3 days, the authorization amount will disappear from my card. Then several weeks later that actual charge will post to the card. I believe the delayed posting has something to do with the banks in particular but I'm not too sure.
Your next course of action should be to check your banking statements for December and January. See if there's a payment for Mandarake in those 2 months for your winnings near Christmas. If there is a payment showing in those 2 months then perhaps this is a double-charge. But if there isn't a payment posted there in your statements for those 2 months, then they are posting it now.
I hope everything gets straightened out for you, one way or another ^_^
- RalphVboy
Last edited by RalphVboy on Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I have checked with my bank and the item that i had bought in december was 104$.....
and was already taken out.........
I took would like to know where my money went to.... Maybe to buy some pokey for 2.60.
that happened to me too. >_> hahaha It was only a couple of dollars though so i never really did anything about it.I figured it was some sort of transaction fee *shrugs*
I had a couple hundred come out of my account today
as well for something I paid for at the end of December.
I agree with the person who said it has something to
do with the banks - not with Mandarake itself.
You might check to see if the new charges are for shipping the items you won in December. I know I have been hit with EMS shipping charges in that dollar range for oversized items from Japan.
"Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment." Harlan Ellison
Mine actually went down from the original amount.
My original amount was $216.57, and the amount
that came out today was $214.67. I believe the
difference comes from the fluctuation in yen
conversion rates.
That's a good point about conversion, that may account for the difference. Typically, my experiences with Mandy have been like Ralphy's. The charge will appear and then disappear for a good month or more and then reappear. There's always an additional charge for the currency conversion.
Ok so I got contacted by mandarake... Which now I feel like Dumb*** AND YOU GUYS WERE RIGHT! I didn’t realize that US$89.16 x 117yen/$ = 10431yen So I thought a 104 us dollars were suppose to be taken out.
Soon this note I would like to personally apologize to mandarake for my ignorance and accusing them of something I should have never done.
Don't feel horrible... it's easy enough to get confused by the way things appear on the accounts. It does eventually turn out right, though.
You might want to go into your first post and edit the title, though... Make it "Mandarake Question" or something Because that's really what it was, right? You couldn't believe they'd actually ripped you off.
And they hadn't! Good deal
"The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."
James A. Michener, The Drifters
Because that's really what it was, right? You couldn't believe they'd actually ripped you off.