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| 01-13-13 10:07am - 4323 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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bibo (0)
Suspended Posts: 179 Registered: Sep 16, '10 Location: GER |
Websites ripping off customers... a new trend? There seems to be a new drift in the industry. I noticed, that a couple of websites are resorting to, let me put it carefully, dodgy practices in order to sell their products. It reaches from false advertising to cancellation problems, to subscription inconveniences.Of course, the market is tough and there is a lot of competition out there and the people behind the companies are not Saints. But still, I think that this kind of behaviour towards the customer is not only immoral, but also pretty stupid, because customers are only good customers when they're coming back. I'm surfing porn for a couple of years now and never ran into such a significant ammount of "cases" as lately. Unlike tube sites or pirate sites, pay sites were always a safe path for me and I had faith in the usual marketing mechanisms of retaining customers and all that. But I have to admit that this trust has been damaged by now. What's your opinion? Have you made similar observations? Or is it just me having a streak of bad luck? | |
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| 01-13-13 11:47am - 4323 days | #2 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
I think it has always been there at a level. The regional pricing scam was a relatively recent attempt to legitamise charging the customer more for nothing. This failed with me because I won't buy if I see it. I think the current perceived increase, is probably a sign of increasing desperation within the industry? Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 01-13-13 11:54am - 4323 days | #3 | ||
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bibo (0)
Suspended Posts: 179 Registered: Sep 16, '10 Location: GER |
You're probably right, but in my experience, this was mostly the case for small companies with sub par content who just could not compete on the market. I never had any problems with the big fishes in the sea.
That's what I was thinking! In many cases, it appears to be a panic symptom. Short term gain in exchange of losing trust and customers in the future. Quite sad. | ||
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| 01-14-13 08:57pm - 4321 days | #4 | |
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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User  Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
I absolutely agree with you. Unfortunately there will always be those who try to rip you off. If you have quality you don't need those dodgy practices. Some have lousy material so need to trick you out of as much as they can because you're not coming back. The shocking thing now is there are even sites who have great material but still try to trick people. The more this happens the more people wil be scared away from legitimate subscriptions and end up on free sites. The industry has always had a cloudy reputation. We need to support the good guys, because there are some out there. If customers are tricked the good guys suffer, so the industry needs them gone as soon as possible. It's hard out there, but it's in both industry and consumers' interests to see the garbage go to the wall asap. | |
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| 01-15-13 06:17am - 4321 days | #5 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Unfortunately there's a tendency that when things get rough (as they are in the current market) the dodgy sites and scams keep going and the honest sites go under. Personally I'm not aware that dodginess in the adult web has got noticeably less but I can well see why it might. It's a shame there are dodgy billing companies who keep allowing such sites to bill customers. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 01-15-13 07:36am - 4321 days | #6 | |
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Philemon (0)
Active User Posts: 1 Registered: Jan 15, '13 Location: Austria |
I just ran into what you described. I signed in for a 2-day-trial at myteenieasiangf.com . When I saw, that the site isn't worth even to look through, I tried to sign out. I pressed "cancel", filled in ID, e-mail-address, last four digits of creditcard - but my account was not found. Then I tried chatting with the so-called support: no answer. I waited one day. Again no chance to cancel. I wrote an e-mail to SeaviewSupport.com (which handles the billing): no answer. I wrote an e-mail to help@segpay.com (Seaview is part of Segpay): they answered, that there is no customer with my data. I called Visa to ask, how to continue. Suddenly, after half a day of working on this issue, an e-mail saying that my account would be cancelled. But not the trial account. The 1-month-account. So they will demand $ 39,95 now. This is hard on being criminal! Edited by Staff on Jan 15, 2013, 08:17am (Khan: direct link URL corrected/edited) | |
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| 01-15-13 08:34am - 4321 days | #7 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Not to rehash or hijack this topic, but Firearms and ammo right now for similar reasons are seeing sellers ripping people off taking orders they cannot fill. My guess is people across the board are panicking for different reasons I think many of the reasons for all this is designed by the big business as they can. Lets use Guns and Porn and food & Fuel. Will people stop buying it if service is bad, or product poor. Maybe.look around some.. lets have all of them raise prices and now make it more difficult to buy from most places. Will people stop buying now ? Probably not. It is simple economics for a recession, make the product harder to get and people will buy up more. There are only so many places one can buy certain products and companies know this. So is easy to put in play a situation where supplying less will give more in sales. Since 2007 | |
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| 02-06-13 06:34pm - 4299 days | #8 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Umm whats wrong with Sites ripping people off, the governments been doing it long before porn !  Since 2007 | |
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| 02-09-13 08:24pm - 4295 days | #9 | |
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skunk (0)
Active Webmaster  Posts: 56 Registered: Jun 21, '12 Location: UK/london |
If you contact you creditcard people and say you cancel it, and it was not what the advertise mad it out to be. they will stop the patent. http://www.sexxximps.com | |
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| 02-10-13 02:15am - 4295 days | #10 | |
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elephant (0)
Active User  Posts: 583 Registered: Jan 11, '07 |
Skunk is right , they should stop this $39.95 or get you it back as it clearly is not what you paid for. Porn companies do get you a little on this cause lots of people get nervous ringing about a pornsite. I'll stay away from Seaview now though, I've never heard of them though. "Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand." WILLIAM CONGREVE | |
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