Warning ... about Surveys and offers
By Kowgirl
@Kowgirl (3489)
United States
October 26, 2007 2:30pm CST
This is for all who do surveys...or offers...DO NOT do the offer for the Free Credit Report.
They will continue to charge you even after you cancel. I have been charged the $1
from the Saving Smart every month since I did this offer and Privacy Matters is also charging my CC every month for $1 plus another $29.95 for the credit report. I have called and had this canceled 4 times and each time I have given them the cancellation verification number that I was given when I canceled. They always say they can't find any cancellation and refuse to pay me back. Then the next month they charge my CC again. They have been turned in for this but it looks like nothing is being done to stop them from doing this. This is also the same one that you do not get credit for at Cash Crate.
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3 responses
@swetha2rani (341)
• India
26 Oct 07
Oh my God don't speak of FREE CREDIT REPORT. They say Free but charge every month almost $12 I guess. Unknowingly we had paid for almost more than 4 mths. Anyways I am not into these offers thing. But feel everyone should know about FCR.
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@Kowgirl (3489)
• United States
27 Oct 07
I wish it was just $12 my CC was getting charged $29.95 plus $1 then another $1 from Saving Smart. $31.95 a month Then last month I got charged $1 3 times from Privacy Matters plus the $29.95 and the $1 at Saving Smart, The BBB said to join all the others and file a complaint.
I don't know how many people have reported them but they are getting rich from all the survey sites...I looked and they are on at least 500 of these kind of sites.
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@clamarco808 (312)
• United States
26 Oct 07
I did this before too. Hope things get straightened out for you real soon! Have you tried the BBB?
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
7 Nov 07
You need to contact your credit card company with the cancellation number and state that they won't cancel it from your credit report. You can only get the free credit report from annualcreditreport.com which is the US government website where you can order a report once a year for free.
Pablo
@Kowgirl (3489)
• United States
8 Nov 07
I don't know where they get their information from but I did find 3 mistakes on my credit report....One was a purchase made in a state that I have never been in. I have no idea why they can't see that the name isn't even the same as mine. Sharon Simmons, doesn't look anything like Shirley Stonoker. And the other 2 have different names as well as different addresses.
It's my debit card at my bank and I had to pay them to stop paying them. Needless to say I don't do surveys anymore. Especially since they don't pay for the offers that pay more than a few dollars or should I say pennies.
