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by ranting-moth 1154 days ago
File a chargeback each time they charge your card. The merchant has to pay the transaction fees both ways and a fee for the chargeback.
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But don't do it if its Google. I had been charged for g-suite for domain that expired and someone else picked it up (and parked), long story short after 3 months of back-and-forth with "support" I gave up and started with chargebacks. It was 7 of them, each month one for $6, until one sunny day I woke up and my own gmail account, my youtube TV and Google Play on 2 Android devices all got blocked with messages popping up I never seen before. Also my friend - who used my wi-fi plenty when we worked on a project together, got his gmail frozen with equally weird messages with no answer how to appeal or follow up. Just middle finger and good bye.

edit: and no, they did not stop charging me for youtube TV. I actually had to get a new card number for my credit card for them to stop.

Yes, chargeback is pretty much a nuclear option. But in his case they'd already closed his account and are not responding, so time for the nukes.
Just a heads up, Salesforce owns Heroku, so if OP did this he had better be willing to lose access to anything else Salesforce related. Like Slack or Quip
And nothing of any real value would have been lost...
Geez, interesting heuristics with the WiFi, I guess the fucktards weren't checking SSIDs but noticed his account and yours shared the same IP, although that was in the past as well?
That's a good reason to never use Google ever. They did you a favor.
This seems totally outrageous and retaliatory -- especially for the friend? Can you get some media attention on this? Is this not a violation of some kind of TOS? It seems wildly thuggish. Did your google authenticator also get nailed? Please answer, because if it's "yes" I'm moving to authy IMMEDIATELY.