I've never really mentioned it elsewhere, but the last time I even considered doing something with oracle was I believe when they released the free-tier arm instance and I was just going to compile some of my projects to arm to see if they worked well.
Well since I'm not in the business of trusting a lot of corporations I decided to use a privacy.com virtual card that only had a one time transaction and would close afterwards. Well after signing up and starting the instance and doing some quick tests. I ended up coming back to it a bit later and found out the account was just out right terminated. After a while of going through support and looking around at what logs I could get, turns out they tried to do a $0.01 charge on the card and since it failed marked the card as stolen (or something similar.) And even with a long conversation with support they told me there was literally nothing that could be done, not even with proof of identification or anything. Even making a new account didn't work since something was matching and they were rejecting me making a new account (don't know if it was address, ip or my name.)
At this point I share the opinion that others here are sharing, no matter the reason never work with oracle. I'm just lucky they made the decision for me and I never even have to consider the choice again.
They do. You can vendor lock a card and give it an all-time transaction cap. They've always had vendor locking but IDK if they've always have an all-time cap. I have run into the same problem GP ran into with someone running a test charge and failing the real charge, but I wasn't banned as a result, of course.
Yeah specifically when I signed up they did the a small charge then, I assumed it only ever do a single charge to check for the legitimacy of the card. If I ever wanted to do a paid tier, I would have changed the card details. But it was a week later that they did a second check even though I hadn't done anything that would incur a charge. The card I had setup with privacy was a charge once card that immediately closes after the first transaction is completed (including charges that are canceled.) So the second charge hit the card after the card was closed. At that point they decided the card must have been stolen and decided to permanently close my account with no recourse.
My guess in the end is they just don't care, I'm not the one that would be giving them lots of money, business contracts are. But they are wrong in the sense that I will never let any company I ever work for choose them if I have any say in the matter.
But there are valid reasons for it to get rejected - I have my limit on my card set to 0, so that in case the information gets stolen, I won't get any damage right away. And it happened a few times I went to get something and forgot I haven't temporarily changed it.
I wholeheartedly agree on this. I had the misfortune of working with an unholy combination of ODI [1], OBP [2], and Oracle Database several years ago. The amount of layers of abstraction and bureaucracy I had to wade through to get things done was enormous and life-draining. Since then, I have made sure to move teams away from Oracle wherever I could and not once have I regretted doing so.
Well since I'm not in the business of trusting a lot of corporations I decided to use a privacy.com virtual card that only had a one time transaction and would close afterwards. Well after signing up and starting the instance and doing some quick tests. I ended up coming back to it a bit later and found out the account was just out right terminated. After a while of going through support and looking around at what logs I could get, turns out they tried to do a $0.01 charge on the card and since it failed marked the card as stolen (or something similar.) And even with a long conversation with support they told me there was literally nothing that could be done, not even with proof of identification or anything. Even making a new account didn't work since something was matching and they were rejecting me making a new account (don't know if it was address, ip or my name.)
At this point I share the opinion that others here are sharing, no matter the reason never work with oracle. I'm just lucky they made the decision for me and I never even have to consider the choice again.