Steam charged $1 after I added my Visa Gift Card as a method of payment?

idk about the charge but you can choose what your payment method is at checkout

It's usually a verification thing. You should get it back in a day or two, I think.

I dunno about making it not use your wallet.

I can't help you with the charge, but if you'd like to add to your backlog check out that Greenlight sale. Here's some cool looking games on sale.
DLC Quest $.075
Postal 2 $2.50
Bleed $3.00
Reciever $2.50
Giana Sisters $3.75

No idea about that $1 - probably verification thing - but you can choose payment method when paying for games. Here's some screenie.

I've had fees like that before. They're temporary fees that are credited back to your card after a week or two. It's dumb, but you'll probably see it again.

Yeah it's just some kind of verification token. In my case usually it will be credited back in half an hour.

It's a charge that is done to make sure the card is legit. About every company does this when adding cards online. The $1 charge actually is a security measure. For one, being able to put in a charge shows the card is legit, but temporarily charging $1 also can act as a security measure against a brute force attempt to use a stolen card number. Some banks will even put on blocks or even contact the card holder if they see multiple $1 charges since that is an indication of a potential security risk or some other issue that needs to be cleared up.

It's not actually a charge though, it's actually a hold on the funds. They won't actually be removed from your account, they are just removed from your available balance that the card company uses to know if they should accept or decline the payment. Most banks return them pretty quickly, but it can take up to 48 hours to drop off and release the funds back to your available balance.

And if the gift card had any issues with this sort of practice, it would have declined you even adding the card in the first place. There's actually gift cards like that that you cannot use for online purchases at all and those you know mostly because there's nothing you can do to add them to an online account.

As far as how to get it to not use your wallet funds, click on "change" next to where it shows your wallet funds and then select the Visa ending in XXXX from the bottom of the dropdown. That selects the card you just added and replaces the wallet funds as a payment option. You can do that even if it's already showing the card in there, just tested it to be sure.

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