Originally Posted by
storewanderer
This is kind of bad advice because unless it double charged (charged both the Ventra and the Contactless card), it is a legitimate transaction. Sure, the card issuer will probably just issue credit and not even charge back the merchant. But the problem is if you have a pattern of doing little chargebacks, what happens when you need to do a "big" chargeback for a legitimate reason? Will the bank help you or will they look at your chargeback history and see all those little chargebacks and start to wonder if something is funny.
It is absolutely not legitimate to charge something to a form of payment that you did not authorize. You have the right to choose your form of payment.
I would probably not put myself in a situation where it happened frequently, though.