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Getting banned for Google Play Refund

Somebody made unauthorized transactions with my account on FGO. Now Google Play offers refunds for this kinds of situations but I'm still wondering whether doing so would get me banned.

Does anybody know if getting refunded through official means wll get me banned or not? I've spent a lot so getting banned would not make the refund worthwhile, however the idea of getting punished for a refund I got through official means makes me realize how vulnerable we are and not want to spend anymore.

Asked by Maybit6 years 2 months ago
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by Tesuji 6 years 2 months ago

Did someone make an unauthorized transaction on *your* Google Play account on *their* FGO account? or did they make an unauthorized transaction on *your* FGO account?

If it's the first, I would think the risk is low (Google is going to report to DW that there's fraud going on with FGO account XXX, which isn't yours). The worst-case scenario would be perhaps having difficulty using that particular Google Play account to make future FGO purchases, if it's flagged as potentially fraudulent.

If it's the second, and, e.g., you loaned your phone to someone else who played your FGO account and used your money to buy SQ for your FGO account, and then wasted it... then you're fucked.

There's no way for DW to distinguish between the second case and you just having morning-after regrets. I haven't heard of this situation in FGO specifically, but in other mobages, reporting that there was fraud going on in your account to get your money back means an automatic ban of your account.

If it's the second scenario, then the only way you can be non-fucked would be to contact DW and get the refund from them (which probably won't happen, but might be worth a try), as getting the refund from the middleman is going to come across as you trying to fuck over DW, which isn't likely to end well.

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It's the second, and I'd figure DW would have plenty of reasons not to think I'm trying to screw them since this would be the only refund attempt I've ever done and I have bought over 5 dozen 80$ packs already. That doesn't mean they wouldn't ban me regardless of course.

Well to me this is quite simple. I've contacted them and will await their response. If they deny me a refund I'm done spending on their game and they lost thousands in future purchases, if they don't it means you can actually use the established and official channels for refunds without having to fear being banned.

Either way this information should be clear and there should be official policy from Google regarding the issue.

I'll leave their response here later so we can all finally know whether refunding through Google Play is a bannable offense or not.

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I honestly don't understand you here. Firstly, this is clearly your fault, wanting to declare an ultimatum and loss of revenue for your mistake is just really odd. They are first and foremost a business, they have zero way of telling if you're lying or not and thinking a couple thousand dollars is going to make a difference on how they deal with these kinds of issues is just asinine. I can sympathize with your problem, but again, its all totally on your side of things. You say its not worth disputing and you have this money to throw around, but you're upset because they aren't going to give into something utterly unreasonable? My advice to you is just don't be careless with your device and accounts in the future. I know that sounds harsh, but thats the reality. Its on you, penalizing or talking about how you are gonna punish DW is just flexing your ego to a bunch of strangers that just doesn't change anything.

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Your thousands are nothing but a drop in the sea for them, tbh. I hope you can get a solution for your problem, and learn the lesson. Be careful with lending your device to another ppl.

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This wasn't DWs fault... why you taking it out on them? loool

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by Fabris 6 years 2 months ago

DW will probably believe you are just salty over bad quarts rolls, sorry.

Cut relationships with the asshole who you trusted to use your device =P

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This isn’t Ragnarok Mobile. You can do the refund trick on FGO. You won’t get banned. Lots of people I know have done it during GSSRs and they were fine.

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