<p>Does anyone else have a $1 charge from Amazon today? I was just checking our bank account online and there is a $1 charge from Amazon. Our son has the same charge on his account. I have no idea what this is for. I am contacting Amazon but was wondering if anyone else has this too. I haven’t ordered anything from them in the past few days.</p>
<p>Someone may have snatched your credit card number and tried it on a small charge before using it on a big one.</p>
<p>I would immediately call your credit card company and check.</p>
<p>Missed the part about your son. Amazon sells music for 99 cents. Any possibility your son could have purchased a song?</p>
<p>I’m not showing any orders on my Amazon account and my son (separate Amazon account and his own checking account) doesn’t buy music. I’m online with Amazon right now.</p>
<p>I showed a $1 from Cumberland Farms from two days ago - I bought gasoline there two days ago so I’m sure that it’s for that. The gasoline charge hasn’t shown up yet.</p>
<p>What can you buy for $1 at Amazon?</p>
<p>Our gas station does that as well. The issue is, I haven’t bought anything from Amazon to prompt a hold on my account like that.</p>
<p>That is considered a flag. I just got a $1 charge on my card, first time I ever saw this, just this week from a gas station and it did raise up flags on my account. Got an email and a call from the bank to make sure I made the charge. I did buy gas there, and the bank indicates that it is an “open” charge with the rest to be billed later. I don’t like that and neither does the bank. I’m going to have to keep an eye on it and recommend all of you who got “tester” charges to do the same.</p>
<p>A few months ago, there was a massive thefts of credit card numbers and I don’t think the banks and card companies came clean as to who was compromised. I have reason to believe that I was one of them,because I have been questioned on some routine local charges after a lifetime of never getting such questions. I am talking about purchases from Target and CVS. THe reason given was they were large. But they were not, given my account history. We are talking in the low even single hundreds range, not iver $300, even, and with the meds I have to buy for two old ladies, I hit this all of the time. So something is up.</p>
<p>Is the charge on your credit card? Cal your cr card co and ask if there are any pending charges. As others have said, putting a dollar on can be a test to see if it goes through.</p>
<p>They are telling me now on Amazon that I have a 'seller account" which I do not…waiting for more information.</p>
<p>What jym626 said.</p>
<p>The bad guys will put a $1 charge in to see if it goes through. If it does goes through, then they will then start charging more against that credit card at Amazon.</p>
<p>I get emails from Amazon fairly often about selling back textbooks as we bought a fair number from Amazon. Any chance that someone in your household did something to set that up to sell their used books?</p>
<p>My Amazon account number was stolen about a month ago. I keep that particular card in our computer desk and use it for on-line purchases only. Someone tried to use it to charge stuff across the country but it was flagged. I had a replacement card in two days.</p>
<p>Apparently the charges were there because of a password change, which I did do. They are assuring me it is ok. I hope they are right.</p>
<p>They charge you to change your password? That’s a pretty clever revenue idea.</p>
<p>(just kidding)</p>
<p>I am a big Amazon user, and I have never had a charge related to a password change! this sounds strange to me.</p>
<p>That was a joke, NYMom.</p>
<p>SteveMA, why is that ok?</p>
<p>I’ve used Amazon for many years and have only had to use their customer service two times. Both times they took care of my issues promptly and in a way that they assumed that I was telling the truth (many places assume that you’re lying on CS issues).</p>
<p>If someone got an email and was told in the email to call a phone # provided in the email, thats probably a scam. There is no evidence that amazon charges anything to change a password. That would be professional suicide. Seriously bad PR. [Amazon.com</a> Help: Changing Your Name, E-mail Address, and Password](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468538&#all]Amazon.com”>http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=468538&#all)</p>
<p>Fwiw, this happens quite regularly, but has only an impact on PENDING charges. When the real charge is processed, the pending dollar will disappear. I have no verified information but I think that the one dollar charge is the result of checking if the card is valid and that the real charge is delayed, perhaps to be charged manually. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if a 1.00 charge appear on your final statement, it is worth investigating. </p>
<p>Credit card charges can be funny, When I was in school I was “stuck” without any credit/debit card for a weekend. My cards were my parents’, and when my mother bought a refrigerator at Sears, the idiot cashier kept telling her that the charges were declined (they were going through) and my mother tried 3-4 different cards. In the end, she had 8 or 9 charges. She spent days clearing that up, and the accounts were blocked for several days.</p>
<p>I get the $1 pending charges any time I buy gas, and sometimes at other places, too-- mostly restaurants. The real amount always comes through later and the $1 disappears. An actual $1 charge that came through would alarm me, and anything like this from Amazon would as well. I’ve bought probably over a hundred things from Amazon and the charge has never come through like that, and I’ve also changed my password before and didn’t pay for it. I really can’t believe they’d charge for a password change!</p>