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Unable To Delete Credit Cards On File

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 11, 2020
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The Manage Payment Method interface on your account management website has a major flaw: once entered, credit cards can not be removed.

I don't think I've ever encountered a website before where if I enter a credit card, then enter another card later, and I can't just click "remove" for the card I no longer want on file.

Mind you, this is not me attempting to remove all cards I have on file. I have an active subscription and understand 100% that Adobe needs a card on file to bill things to every month. Most sites would call this a default card and as long as you have one card on file, set as default, you're good.

So, I decided to "contact" Adobe via chat. I just left my browser window open and maybe an hour or so later somebody popped on to "help" me.

The "help", after some back and forth, I got was essentially this: "I can not help you even though I said I could initially. I can only see one card on my end. If you see multiple, those should just disappear sometime". "Disappear sometime"!? When? What is this? I can't control my own payment information and what is retained by Adobe and what isn't? And neither can the Adobe "support staff"?

I have recently had fraudulent activity on my credit card accounts and wanted to limit what card information I have on file with various companies. I was able to do it with everyone except Adobe. It was a matter of simply clicking "remove".

How is this even possible? The monthly fee of $52.99 doesn't come with a way to control my own payment information? And I can't even ask Adobe to control that information?

Wow.

Correct answer Just Shoot Me

If you have had fraudulent activity on your card I suggest you contact your CC company and or bank it is associated with and have them issue a new number. So NOT put that new number into the Adobe system and the original card/number will no longer be a problem.

Could also be that as far as adobe is concerned that original number is what is being billed by Adobe. Did you actually select to Change the billed card?

If you have already received a new card/number then I'd stop worrying about it.

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JMTLLC

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i had the same experiance today , took me all morning to get them to budge , not only is Adobe unethecal but possibly ileagel ? they suck i just rashed all my adobe acounts .

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essieB

Participating Frequently

In an increasingly insecure world where data breaches happen to even the best companies, it is IRRESPONSIBLE for Adobe to not allow me to delete a payment method from my account. The fact that they have such disregard for longtime subscribers and decades-old software users and choose hold our data hostage in this way means that UNTIL this CHANGES, I will encourage folks to find other solutions. Sad but true.

kkh0987654321Author

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Hey Adobe!

Here's a link to CCPA, effective as of 1/1/2020, in case you have not read it yet: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=CIV&division=3.&title=1.81.5.&part=4.&chapter=&article=

Let me quote the relevant part for you:

"1798.105. (a) A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer which the business has collected from the consumer."

How about you start obeying the law and comply with 1798.105. (a) for your California customers and provide an option to delete the information we want to delete?

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roger barone

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I've just had the same exact experience...I've taken screen shots of my conversation. I originally tried deleting info' online and couldn't. I contacted adobe chat rep.. explained my desire to delelte OLD CREDIT CARD INFO. Rep understood that to mean I wanted to cancel my SUBSCRIPTION. I said please READ CAREFULL WHAT I WROTE.

Rep told me I must do it at ADOBE.COM (Where I started this process and entered the tangled adobe web of misinformation.

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JMTLLC

Participant

Same exact thing here just today!

Just Shoot MeCorrect answer

Legend

If you have had fraudulent activity on your card I suggest you contact your CC company and or bank it is associated with and have them issue a new number. So NOT put that new number into the Adobe system and the original card/number will no longer be a problem.

Could also be that as far as adobe is concerned that original number is what is being billed by Adobe. Did you actually select to Change the billed card?

If you have already received a new card/number then I'd stop worrying about it.

kkh0987654321Author

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Yes, I have obviously contacted my credit card companies and all cards with fraudulent activity are currently locked and being reissued as they investigate where the fraud originated from. This isn't really my point though.

re: "Could also be that as far as adobe is concerned that original number is what is being billed by Adobe. Did you actually select to Change the billed card?"

Why would it matter to Adobe what the "original number" was? Surely I should be able to manage my card information at any point. No other company I have subscriptions with or any other transactions with limits this. As long as there's a card that can be billed by them if its a subscription model. But yes: I have 3 cards listed on my Adobe account and the correct one (the one that I want Adobe to charge the monthly fees to) is listed as the first one. And it's a card they've billed before (if that matters to them).

What is baffling to me is this:

I can not get rid of the cards that I do not want listed on my account anymore. Just... why?

Regardless of what the customer service can see on their end... as they claimed... I can sign in to my account right now and see all 3 credit cards listed. All of the card information for all cards is right there in front of me.

If somebody were to hack into my account they would see all of that card information as well. And, as we know, millions of Adobe accounts have been compromised over the years. Based on this past precedent it's actually likely to happen again.

I wanted to limit any potential information exposure going forward to a single card and thus protect myself from potential loss. So if my account gets hacked, I have a single credit card to worry about and dispute fraudulent charges for. Not multiple.

re: "If you have already received a new card/number then I'd stop worrying about it."

"Stop worrying about it" is nice until it happens again. Let's ignore the fact I have new cards being reissued. Let's assume that I just wanted to limit my card information and only have one on file. Just to limit the impact of any fradulent activity that could happen in case my Adobe account gets compromised. Why can't I do this? Why can't the customer service do this for me? Delete the information I don't want on file and they do not need?

I guess it's just my mistake for entering multiple cards over time, not realizing Adobe employs a completely incomprehensible logic of not allowing those cards to be deleted.

With all the user data collection and retention laws recently passed here in California... this seems bizarre to me.

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