Unable to purchase on fab

Summary

For about a week I’m trying to buy assets on fab, ever ytime I get to checkout I constantly get the error message:

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

I’ve tried other payment methods and results the same transaction declined. I’ve called my banks and they aren’t even receiving payment authorizations so there’s nothing I can do on my end. Fab payment processor is flagging me and declining all transactions. That’s pretty frustrating as I can’t continue forward with development. I’ve never had a situation where I can’t purchase from a vendor.

I’ve tried to create a ticket and go through support and was basically told nobody has control over the payment processors so I’ll just have to try in a few days again. So trying after a few days results in the same loop for me.

I’ve also tried to clear cookies, I’ve emptied cart multiple times, used firefox, google chrome as browsers next step for me is just to create a new account. Has anyone else experienced this situation, any other work arounds?

Thank you for your time.

What type of bug are you experiencing?

Purchasing

URL where the bug was encountered

https://www.fab.com/?purchaseToken=cbca4179475b4bc4b32e79ceef1307e2

Steps to Reproduce

attempt to check out

Expected Result

able to check out

Observed Result

blocked from payment processor

Platform

firefox and google chrome

Operating System

windows 11

Going on week number 2 still unable to make a purchase, still flagged by processors on fab’s end. Paypal doesn’t work, unable to add funds to epic account it puts me in the same loop. Any support Fab? You have a customer who can’t purchase anything… it seems to me like someone would want to fix that as you derive money from sales. I’ve seen several other posts of this same situation happening to others so it’s obviously a problem, does Fab just want to ignore it and see if it goes away?

I’d love to see the customer support training on this one. “Guys just keep telling the customer to try again and again hopefully one day it works. While you’re at it…also tell the customer to buy a lottery ticket because one day that may work as well.”

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We have the same issue, did you ever get a response from Fab? Their customer support has been terrible regarding this issue, it’s pretty obvious there’s no solution for it.


@skfabby
this seem important, can you push that issue to the team. Thank you :innocent:

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EMP-15022 has been created and its status is ‘New’. This is now in a queue to be reproduced and confirmed.

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Thanks for reporting this - we’ll take a look.

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I am having this issue as well. I can’t check out. I’ve tried on two computers and my phone.

I’m getting, “Sorry, there is an error with your cart and we cannot complete the purchase. Please close this window and check your cart list.”

There is nothing in my cart that should be of any concern!

I’d love to know how to resolve this.

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Not solved, but I arbitrarily removed some items from my cart and was able to check out. I think it would be great if there were visible flags displayed for problematic assets, if this is how it’s meant to work. Having to delete those items is costing sales for the vendors!

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That could explain why so many sellers have low sales :confused:
If possible post the one which was removed, this will add to their investigation.
They should usually reply tomorrow, because they are not present on weekend.

I think this one is a similar issue: Cannot purchase or add product to cart

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They were impulse purchases, so I don’t explicitly remember. I will try to find them again. If I do, I will post them here.

We’re checking if this is related to specific assets or is part of some broader issue. If it’s asset-related, we’ll work on getting some flags set up.

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Same here. It seems this issue is happening with the Limited-Time Free assets only, to me. it’s happening from both browser and in-editor.
Just cannot figure out how to solve this and the current selection of assets will be gone in a few hours. So annoying…

Many thanks!

I’m having the same issue. For months now. Reached out support twice, the issue still not resolved.
@skfabby can you review my case please?

Has this been resolved? I am facing the same exact issue this week.
“Looks like something went wrong. For your protection, this transaction has been declined. Please try another card or other payment methods”

Multiple cards from different banks are declined, I contact support and told to wait for 24 hours, that doesn’t fix the problem. The banks are saying there are no issues with my card.

What can I do? This happens with any asset on Fab