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e have different apps or something?
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Preauthorisations or authorisation hold validity can be as short as a day or as long as 30 days depending on the type of "card not present" merchant.

Once the merchant settles a transaction for which there is an authorisation hold, the hold disappears but that assumes the merchant processes the authorisation hold rather than making a new separate transaction. For most people though this is a nothing burger.
 
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I had an email from Evie a couple of days ago. It nominated a $2.00 pre-auth, but said that that might change. It did say that it would take 1-3 days for the bank to reverse the pre-auth. The slowness of the reversal is the main irritation for me. I haven’t used their service yet. It does put me off.
 
For most people though this is a nothing burger.

I agree. Pre-auths merely temporarily limit your remaining credit, e.g. a $30 pre-auth on a card with a $10,000 limit will reduce your credit for any subsequent transactions to $9,970 until the pre-auth is removed. It’s pretty unlikely a pre-auth will impact your spending ability on a credit card unless you are sailing super-close to the wind.

Hotels I have stayed at have pre-authed as much as $250 to cover minibar and bathrobe raiders.

A $20 pre-auth could be material if you use a debit card that you keep very little money on, but so what, manage your balance on it.

Presumably fast-charging networks have experienced an increase in malicious card use (people who deliberately keep very low balances on debit cards) and have introduced pre-auths to stop the losses.
 
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Off topic posts about charging apps, pre authorisation and Opal cards moved to a new thread.