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OneMan (0)
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UPDATE:
This is what I received from the Credit Card company that services the site:
"The charge of $9.95 is only a pre-authorization to ensure that the credit card
used is valid and there is room on the card if ever the membership is upgraded.
But we assure you that this is not an actual charge but just a temporary hold on
the funds that will usually fall off your bank within 72 hours once the membership
has been canceled."
Now, as far as I'm concerned, this is rubbish. I have never seen anyone take more than $1 from a credit card to check iD etc.
Besides, what the firm did not do, is to tell me that I was given access to a 3 day trial which would be rebilled at $9.99 unless I cancelled.
Unfortunately, I had no idea that I had been signed-up to it and so would not have cancelled it anyway !
But, taking $9.99 from on'es account without authorisation is 'not on', in my book !
However they dress it up, it is dodgy practice at best.
I really wanted to try out Tiny Tyler, but I no longer wish to patronise this company...on principle, if nothing else. At worst, sufring the member area which is full of instant upselling links, is not my idea of fun, as I have found to my cost in the past !
These sites that use dodgy practices should be named and shamed.
I still maintain that instant upsells are not legal...at least in the UK, Contract Law requires clear offer and acceptance.....credit card practice should not allow it...at least ethically if not legally. Disgraceful.
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10-26-09 10:39am
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