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Refund guides

Eleven source-reviewed guides for the refund situations people actually get stuck on: cancelled and changed flights, unused airline fees, returns that never refunded, charges after cancelling, card billing errors and unrecognised charges, parcels that never arrived, prepaid services not performed, recalls and warranties, and when paid help is worth it.

Each guide answers the same six questions: who it applies to, what evidence to keep, what the timing is, the order to escalate in, the exceptions that catch people out, and which official source to read.

None of it is legal advice, and none of it promises you a refund. It is the orientation step — what to gather and who to ask first — so that the request you send is the strong version rather than the one that gets a form reply.

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Travel

Cancelled flight refund

What a U.S. cancelled-flight refund covers, what it does not, the evidence to keep, and the order to escalate in when an airline stalls.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Travel

Significant schedule change

How a significant airline schedule change creates a refund option, what counts as significant, and how to decline a changed itinerary without losing the right.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Subscriptions

Charged after cancelling

How to get back a subscription charge that posted after you cancelled: the proof that actually settles it, the order to escalate in, and how to stop the next charge.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Cards & banking

Credit-card billing error

The federal billing-error process for credit cards — what qualifies, the 60-day written-notice clock, what the issuer must do, and how it differs from asking the merchant.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Delivery

Missing delivery refund

What to capture before a tracking page changes, who is actually responsible when a parcel goes missing, and the escalation order that works.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Returns

Return received, no refund

What the delivery scan actually proves, why a processed refund can take days to post, the one question that separates a stall from a settlement delay, and the order to escalate in.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Cards & banking

Duplicate or unknown charge

How to tell a duplicate of your own purchase from a charge you never made, why one starts with the merchant and the other with your bank, the two different clocks that run, and what provisional credit actually means.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Travel

Unused airline fee

How to ask for an airline fee back when the service it was sold against was not provided, why that is a separate ask from a baggage delay claim, and the evidence that decides each.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Delivery

Prepaid service no-show

What to do when a prepaid cleaner, mover, tutor or repair tech misses the job or leaves it unfinished — the document the argument turns on, how to offer a re-do without closing your other routes, and the order to escalate in.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Products

Recalls and warranties

How a published recall differs from a written warranty, how to identify your exact unit, what to do with the item meanwhile, and the order to escalate in for each.

Reviewed August 28, 2026 Decision

Paid claim services

A test for whether a claims service deserves a share of your money: the arithmetic to run first, when paying is rational, when it is wasted, and what to get in writing before you sign.

Reviewed August 28, 2026