Stay away from these idiots. All they going to do is avoid any responsibility for their own mistakes.

From: "dkzzzz"

| I purchased bus tickets through international web site that belongs to | largest transportation company in Scandinavia. The Bank of America

Does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute know you are posting this Off Topic BS on their time using their equipment ?

Let's get this straight...you're using your DEBIT card (which deducts directly from your bank account) to purchase something on a foreign web site, and you're calling Bank of America a bunch of idiots?

Take a look in the mirror if you want to see the real idiot here.

At which point you fight, complain, and bash BoA into allowing access for your merchant.

Because they were designated 'pending' when the merchant presented for payment. The access was blocked, the pending transactions were removed, the merchant received notice that payments would not be honored.

Because the MERCHANT was authorized (by you) to access payment via BoA. After the initial rejection, the payments were resubmitted.

Whether the initial block of foreign access was improper is probably buried in the fine print of you banking agreement. But, you fought for the right to have a foreign merchant access your account for payment... and BoA complied with your request.

Yes, because you authorized the merchant to take payment from your account, and the merchant did. If you require a refund, due to a delay in processing the payment that led you to believe the sale was cancelled, you should contact the merchant and request one. Since you used the same merchant for each transaction, it should be a relatively painless request.

I have to ask, after fighting with BoA to remove the block on your account, why are you then surprised that charges now come through?

Most FI's allow for some computer glitch/EFT mess/user error as a possibility when processing payments. It is the merchant who holds the payment and re-submits. Most often, that is a GOOD thing. For example, if your deposit and payments cross at your bank, the merchant resubmitting is what prevents you from having an NSF fee from the merchant.