Credit card overpayment & dealing w/ IBJJF

Anyone have experience dealing with getting an overpayment back from any of their events?

I was registrating for Mundials and it keep saying there was an error on the credit card, because I had failed to put in the card number. Which was wrong in itself, since I had done so. Anyways, after three errors I checked my email just to be sure that it was an error and sure enough they had charged me three times. I asked them an email question about an upcoming event like three months ago and never got a response, so I am a little pissed right now. I am not hurting fo the money, but what is right is right.

 

E-mail again, or call? Is a phone number available?

 

I've been trying to get a refund on my Mundials registration fees for 2 weeks now. Good luck! I'm contemplating calling my credit card and having them deal with this.

 

Post a message on NHBGear.com/forum . There are a lot of IBJJF competitors and refs there who may know who to talk to. I do suggest calling them and writing them a few emails. If you don't get a response in a week (email & call a few times if you get no response), I suggest talking to your credit card company then reporting them to the appropriate Government organization for fraud.

 

I don't know if i would go that far, at least not yeat. It seems to me like there is some registration problem with the computer system they have. I would prob post where frodo says and call constantly. I hope it's not some kid at IBJJF screwing with people's CC numbers, but i doubt that

 

A lot of times the credit card payments go through initially, but then are reversed later on (for example if you put the wrong zip code you will get charged but it will be reversed later).

Anyway, I agree that calling is the best option, ASAP before they get too busy.

 

I would call but the number is in Brazil, so I have to wait until my wife comes home. I don't speak Portuguese, but she does...so hopefully I can get some quick resolve. Like I said, they still haven't answered me about the Asian Open.

 

I don't think what Frodo suggested is too drastic. Maybe not the fraud thing, but you definitely need to dispute the charges. If it's been a few months and they haven't gotten back to you then you need to take some initiative. Report it to your credit card company and say that you got charged three times instead of once. They will go through the appropriate channels and contact the biller's collection company and try to get your refund back. Alot of times the organization running the tournament doesn't necessarily deal with collecting and managing the funds, they hire another agency or company to do it, so your credit card company will know who exactly sent the charge.

 

thanks

 

:-/

 

edit

 

Zankou knows everything.

Good BJJ advice.

Now solid legal advice.

Zankou, you anything about women???? Always need advice for that.... :icon_chee

 

haahahahha sums up money grabbing gracie barra

 

aint competiton entry $100

 

$122

 

didnt the registration open only like a month ago?

 

go on the gracie diet,it solves all problems...porra!!!

 

The exact same error message happened to me. It took a very long time to load and then said there was an error entering my credit card number. For some reason though I thought I would check my email before reentering the regestration page and sure enough I had an email confirmation. The same thing would have happened to me, but for some reason (thank god) I checked my email...sorry about it man. But I am sure you were not the only person that got overcharged for this, because I almost did too.