Posted on 12/17/2004 3:42:33 PM PST by ecurbh
happened to me in 2002. Through fandango, I was signed up and billed for Cleverisland.com at $20 a month.
Called them and it was resolved.
This is fraud, and these jokers at fandango need to be hammered.
Yeah - I suspect you're right that Amazon shouldn't be here.
I know the date, cause I was stationed in Alaska at the time.
I used fandango to see a movie.
The Cleverisland site is a child learning site. I have no children, so I got the money refunded pretty quickly.
The Mummy Returns (2001)
My bad. It was actually 2001.
I never used Fandango again.
These DMA/IAB members pushing "incent/rewards/spam/telemarketing" are pitching the shopping cart hosting companies to plug in their scripts on the final checkout pages of 100% of their merchnats. Their friggin applications capture the Credit card and customer info on the cart cookie pass through dumping all the privacy info through to the Adwhores.
The small merchant isn't clued into what really happens and the privacy peddling Adwhore operator spins to them they offer the customer some coupon or rebate % off deal upon the next trip the captured customer makes to the merchants site. (reward company pays the vaporware spiff) Meanwhile they gang rape the customer with spams -telephone calls and re-sell the scraped info to every source willing to pay for it. The customer scratches his head and wonders how these stangers got him,his credit history,cc and phone# on their marketing list.
The ecatelog/cart Hosting company gets a share without doing a damn thing and poo-poo it as a great FREE incentive for repeat business back to their merchant/client. Basically its a under the table payment for syphoning off the customer info of every merchant transaction hosted at places like Americart. I wrote all the cart hosting companies I deal with putting in a notice that a carbon was going to the FTC and FBI to see if CC theft, CAN-SPAM and ID theft laws were being violated.
The Merchant has to specifically OPT-OUT in writing to keep their customer info from falling into the hands of the 3rd party direct marketing firms. I feel your anger Andrew and the Adwhore spin machine (Host company/reward company) made the senerio look like a win-win situation in their short sweet smoke screen e-mail notice. Let's see if some of the FEDs can sniff out a fox in the hen house.
Thanks for the ping.
jm
Yeah it is a rip off. Tried to cancel before the 30 day trial period and they dont let you. They told me I signed up. No I wanted my 10 buck coupon. They already had my credit card number from the ticket purchase and to my surprise HAHA I got dinged 9 bucks. Read other posts and the lawers have fought these cases. They should rename themselves fandswindle
There is no way I would have gone ahead if I had known I would be charged every month. There’s a class action lawsuit against them for this nonsense. Not that I’m a big fan of lawyers, but I hope they nail these people.
I to have just noticed a $12.00 charge from Reservations Rewards via Fandango. I called both to voice my objections and get the money refunded to my account which they say they will do. This was an unauthorized charge. In fact, I DID NOT sign up for this free offer. Fandango said I must have if my personal information was forwarded to Reservation Rewards, but my experience with Fandango was not such a great one that I felt I would use them again in the future, so I did not choose to participate in the program or offer. That being said, I think it doesn’t matter if you opt to participate or not... either way the information does get shared with Reservations rewards.
I am now sending a complaint to the BBB, the FTC (Fair Trade Commission) and the State Attorney General’s office here in Oregon. If you have had a similar experience, you should do the same!
Scott Harder, Portland Oregon
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