Fab Purchasing issues, "Looks like something went wrong. For your protection, this transaction has been declined. Please try another card or other payment methods."

This just randomly hit me as well. Multiple good cards from different banks, all declined.

EDIT: I seem to be fixed, also randomly? I’ll put what I did below for anyone else to try.

  • Waited a couple days, tried again successfully purchasing something else entirely
  • Have not retried any buying of the three items that were in the stalled cart
  • Successful attempt was on a windows 10 machine, previous failures were on a MBP.
  • before making the paid purchase, I deliberately “bought” a free asset I did not need
  • made the second paid purchase using “buy now” bypassing cart.
  • suspect something had flagged my account (crappy fraud heuristics?) but it may have been related to one of the three things I tried to purchase, or the cart itself. Who knows.
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