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by Mo3 316 days ago
I still wonder why they literally don't seem to care in Europe. I've overdrawn billing accounts (by accident) two times, one 10 years ago, one a year ago. Nothing happened until I remembered about them months and months later, I went to check and both times the accounts were just sitting there closed. Checked my email and they sent like two payment reminders in the first 2 weeks and then nothing ever again.. the one 10 years ago is still sitting there.. it's not like they couldn't have sent it to debt collections, that's also a popular thing here lol.
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If it was Germany I expect them to find a way to legally upgrade the debt to $99,999 or so, and then take you to court, and the court will side with them and seize your assets to pay it. German law doesn't fuck around; unfortunately the precise ways in which it doesn't fuck around are arcane and only accessible to billionaires. And if you get it wrong the entire cost backfires on you.
That’s legacy thinking. Customers are cattle not pets!

I’m in the UK btw.