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Similar happened with me on AWS about 10 years ago - ended up with my account being shut down. I managed to exceed a free tier and get charged $0.01 USD for S3 storage. They kept trying to take the payment from my card, but my bank couldn't process it as 1c is less than 1 GBP penny.
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Have written evidence, and take screenshots of the websites and datetimes where you tried that. Have all documentation in a way that it holds up in court (a phone call is worthless, but an email history goes a long way), so that in worst case when this escalates you can prove that there was no means of payment available.
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I had a similar problem with Skype. I was being billed a monthly subscription for an account I could not log into and for which Microsoft could not confirm my identity. I asked my bank to block payment , which they did, and which worked for a month, until Microsoft clued in and
simply swapped in the same subscription under a different name, which snuck past my bank’s block. The final solution was canceling my card and issuing a new one, which of course resulted in endless other problems.
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It will end up in the too hard basket and get deleted. Don't worry about it. No credit agency will touch a $1.16 bill
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Realistically the main thing OP has to worry about is this somehow getting his Google account flagged and locked by some buggy algorithm at a later date. Nothing involving a human would ever come about this, but it's Google we're talking about.
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I'm curious, if Google reported this to a credit rating agency, would they be liable for defamation?
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How would you know? Arent those reports opaque ML with a scalar result? GDPR should allow you to extract that info in some countries. But I dunno about the US.
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OP is refering to the only way to get support from google or even attention. Produce keywords that flag it as a liability or lawsuit issue. \n
Ironically, highly paid lawyers are googles only reliable reachable support.\n Sometimes when you try to gamble a system and the system can gamble you right back, you pay dearly, in this case by having highly paid lawyers do telephone support.
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I've tried using the GDPR rights, it does not work, they won't extract anything, just scribble in a mail "yea, we have so and so on you" but won't actually give you any actual data containing any particular detail.
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I thought credit rating agencies work with identified data.
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FICO 8 scores ignore collections under $100 I believe.
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Thing about computers is, they don't care, either way, an outstanding invoice is an outstanding invoice. The number is != 0 and so the machinery grinds on.
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Which, of course, is why any sane system developer would ask the client 'How small is too small?', then have the computer ignore, say, any claims below $5 or whatever. Or, better - accumulate claims until the sum is of a magnitude it makes sense to bill.
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