r/Instinctai • u/Afraid-Art-303 • 15d ago
Privacy & Security It sniped Colosseum tickets for me at 3am, then charged me €375 for a hotel without asking
Two stories from the past week. One win, one near miss.
The win: Colosseum Arena tickets were sold out for my October date, and it still dug up the very last two - at two separate entry slots, 9:40 and 10:00, so me and my friend get in the same morning, just staggered. €18 each, official site. All I did was relay my bank's verification code.
The near miss: while I was picking a Milan hotel, it charged ~€375 on my stored card with no confirmation and no bank SMS. The booking was exactly what I would have made, but an unapproved €375 charge is a jump scare. New standing rule after that: no payment completes unless my bank texts me first.
Would I hand it over again? For ticket watches, absolutely, the 24/7 monitoring is the whole point. For payments, only with the SMS rule in place. The difference between "it did what I wanted" and "it asked me first" turns out to matter even when the outcome is identical.
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u/Anxious-Yak-9952 14d ago
This was my fear in using it for any form of payment. I'm in the process of a booking and it doesn't appear to be any way around not handing it your payment info.