Do you read the fine print when it comes to paid-to's and offers you fill out?
@LouieWpHs04 (4555)
United States
February 25, 2008 6:59am CST
When you're on paid-to sites like TreasureTrooper, Cashcrate, and other sites like this. Do you read the fine print on the site you're joining, or do you just join? In a way they, and some of the offers are swindling you. What do I mean? Well. You know those "Hey, this is easy all I have to do is fill out an email or fill in my phone number?"
Well, for the email one's it's basically you signing up for an endless amount of spam.
As for the "fill out your phone number" one's, you may be signing up for a service to a ringtone company for prices between 5-10$ a month without your knowledge. ALWAYS read the terms of service before joining up with any offer, and as for the fill out your email and phone and that's it kinds? Just avoid them completely, or well. I think you should. It's not worth the hassle, and the paid-to sites are completely legally-protected if you try to complain back to them and for the most part, the offer sites like that will just completely ignore you.
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
25 Feb 08
I read through them too because one time on eof the companies, I assume, had chrged something to my phone bill and I had to call them to cancel the service. I don't do the offers anymore because they don't approve anyway for me now. You do get alot of spam mail but I used a different email address for those thank God.
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@LouieWpHs04 (4555)
• United States
25 Feb 08
Yeah, if we get charged anything weird i'm definitely going to be calling up the number the day of getting the cellphone bill. I don't really feel like paying for something that I didn't even recall signing up for! That's just cruel! I dont think I did, but who knows. I might have did one by accident when I was sleep-deprived some random night. Let's hope not!
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@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
28 Feb 08
Yeah. I hope you didn't either. I think some of those companies sell out our information and we get signed up for stuff even though we didn't authorize it. I did get my money back though. I had something charged to my credit card once also so my credit card company stopped the transaction and gave me a new card. It was charged on 3 times by the same company for somthing I didn't order or subscribe to. It happened when I was doing offers at GPT sites.
@LouieWpHs04 (4555)
• United States
25 Feb 08
Yep, that's the way to bee! Don't want to be secretly charged because you didn't read the fine print!
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
25 Feb 08
I know the dangers of not reading the fine print. These dangers are magnified when you are doing offers for Project payday, because these companies know that you are rushing through the offer in order to get paid.
I always read the fine print because there was a situation that I didn't and it cost me big. There was a trial offer that cost two dollars or something. I had the two on my debit card plus some, so I wasn't worried. The problem is I didn't read the fine print where they said they put a hold on the first months fees, which were $59 and change. For those who don't know what a hold is, the company requests the money from the account you are using, but they don't actually come get it until a later date, like the end of the trial period. So the place where you got the account sets aside that amount they requested so you can't touch it. Once they company releases the hold, you can get to your money.
So I didn't know that this happened. I called the company, and it took about a week for me to get to my money. I usually read the fine print, but that day I was being lazy. Never again. Before I sign up to anything, I read the fine print carefully, so I won't be getting any surprise charges.
Its also good to read the fine print, because some companies will go against their own TOS, just because they think that no one is paying attention. I have had a company charge their regular rate to my account before the trial period was over. If I had not read the terms and conditions, I could have thought this was regular procedure, and left it alone. I may have even called, but I wouldn't have known what to bring up. Reading all the fine print gives you a leg to stand on when you have to call in. They can't do anything except to give you your money back if you are quoting their own TOS.
