I had only ever purchased cheapo phones. Decided I wanted to splurge with a flagship at the local Best Buy and got a hard stop from my bank who wanted to verify it wasn't a fraudulent charge. I wasn't being ripped off. It was the normal price of the phone. I splurged on some new tech lol.

Funny thing is after giving up on that route, I made the purchase for the exact same amount on Amazon instead and it went through no problem lol.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Damn, your bank seems to have an awful lot of control over your bank account.

I bought my S10 for 350€ on Amazon when it was on sale. Might have even been my last buy from Amazon

[–] dingus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's really not that deep. It was a charge of $1000 from a retailer I don't normally purchase from. That's not a regular occurrence. The only other time I had my bank ask me for verification was when I was withdrawing a large amount of cash from an ATM, which I also don't normally do.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I see, I just never heard of that before. After looking it up I saw that I could transfer 100 000€ without my bank saying anything.