# Renewal Credit Card Technical Foul-up  (help)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewal-credit-card-technical-foul-up-help/448629>\
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**Created:** [May 8, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewal-credit-card-technical-foul-up-help/448629 "2008-05-08T23:43:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewal-credit-card-technical-foul-up-help/448629/1 "2008-05-08T23:43:45Z")

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Help! I just tried to renew and there was some technical foul-up. When I went to enter my credit card info an error message pop-up appeared reading (in part) “Error-code -12227”. I forget what else it said. Anyway-- my deadline is 2 days from now and I’d like to keep my membership in good standing. Please advise.

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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewal-credit-card-technical-foul-up-help/448629/2 "2008-05-08T23:51:56Z")

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ummmmmmmm… it looks like I misspelled “renewal”, didn’t I? Any mod please feel free to fix it. Or not. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewal-credit-card-technical-foul-up-help/448629/3 "2008-05-09T01:24:11Z")

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I’ll tell Jerry about the problem. Please try again. Not sure what that error message is all about.

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**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewal-credit-card-technical-foul-up-help/448629/4 "2008-05-09T02:43:58Z")

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I’ve tried again and the same warning came up at every step. But this time I just kept clicking “OK” when it cam up and eventually the transaction went through (it said).

Now I have another problem. After it went through the receipt page said I was paid up through 2010! I didn’t mean to do that! I thought I was only paid though May 2008 and needed to re-up ASAP in order to be paid up through May 2009.

I’m confused now. Can you (anyone?) tell me if I have subscribed accidentally for too many years?

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/renewal-credit-card-technical-foul-up-help/448629/5 "2008-05-09T03:15:01Z")

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Please check that again; I’m showing you as subscribed through 2009. I don’t think you can resubscribe for more than one year currently.