Problems paying Amazon Web Services via FNB

[Paul Bedford]

Has anyone else experienced problems with payment of the AWS accounts using a stored FNB card this month?

The amounts due for my various accounts (my own and some client accounts that I pay on their behalf and recover from them at a later stage) have all been returned unpaid. There is plenty of money in the account, so that is not a problem. It is exactly the same card that has been used since I started dealing with AWS and everything has gone through exactly as it should in prior months. AWS say FNB has changed something on their side. Before I start yelling at FNB, has anyone else had a similar experience?

 

[Drifter]

I am having the same issue, but on PayPal and my Capitec acount. PayPal reckons the error is on their side.

 

[Snyper564]

Any payments over 50k on a cc for foreign payments will give you an issue

 

[Paul Bedford]

Any payments over 50k on a cc for foreign payments will give you an issue

Nowhere near that amount. Individual amounts are less than R1000.00 each and all of them combined, less than R5000.00.

 

[neoprema]

I've had some paypal transactions declined on my FNB card, used ABSA and it was fine. Not sure why.

 

[Felixbf1980]

Debi check issue maybe.?

 

[deweyzeph]

Any payments over 50k on a cc for foreign payments will give you an issue

AWS now runs through a South African subsidiary (Amazon Web Services South Africa (Pty) Ltd) so this is no longer a problem. It used to be a huge issue but luckily they no longer bill from overseas.

 

[Leno]

AWS now runs through a South African subsidiary (Amazon Web Services South Africa (Pty) Ltd) so this is no longer a problem. It used to be a huge issue but luckily they no longer bill from overseas.

Yeah it sucked when they started charging VAT

 

[deweyzeph]

Yeah it sucked when they started charging VAT

Yeah, if you're not VAT-registered it sucks.

 

[RudderVator]

I've had some paypal transactions declined on my FNB card, used ABSA and it was fine. Not sure why.

Absa cards never fail me.
Had FNB cards blocked while overseas. Random declines for no reason whatsoever. Both where Visa.

 

[charlieharper]

Nowhere near that amount. Individual amounts are less than R1000.00 each and all of them combined, less than R5000.00.

Where do you get those numbers?

I usually top up my Vultr accounts $300-400 at a time with FNB visa and never had an issue.
Also paid for Airbnb's overseas over R15k with same card.
Also Airline tickets abroad.

But I have had AWS issues in the past with my FNB card just to get authorised then one day it magically worked again.

 

[Bryn]

No issues for me using my FNB business credit card with AWS. Usually R7,000-8,000 each month.

 

[Paul Bedford]

Eventually, I got to the bottom of the problem. FNB decided in their infinite wisdom that Amazon were trying to defraud me and blocked any payments to Amazon. This despite me making payments on a regular basis without any problem and no significant change in the amounts being requested by Amazon. FNB didn't bother to check with me before doing it and then took over a week to eventually tell me what they had done to stuff things up. Huge fail by FNB.

 

[William1102]

Had the same thing happen on Spotify on a private clients debit

Refused to go through