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post #16 of 29
11/19/09 at 4:07pm
ARgg! Even pizza hut??!?! I wanted to boycott all of them but Pizza hut! They make my favorite pizzas.
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post #17 of 29
11/19/09 at 5:46pm
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Originally Posted by Joelby View Post
the net is a goldmind for the unethical, that's for sure.
Whats a goldmind?
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post #18 of 29
11/20/09 at 1:24am
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Originally Posted by Drag0n View Post
Whats a goldmind?
Maybe it's like Goldfinger.
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post #19 of 29
11/20/09 at 3:14am
Cool. I know where I'm never shopping again. Sorry Barnes and Noble. I really liked you guys. Wait, I'm not sorry. Money grubbing aaskdn; Pizza Hut!? Crap.
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post #20 of 29
11/20/09 at 3:15am
A double huh?
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post #21 of 29
11/20/09 at 10:32am
Seriously, if people don't stop condoning this kind of behaviour by companies, they'll just keep going about scamming customers or permitting them be scammed. The ball is in your court, so to speak.
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post #22 of 29
11/20/09 at 10:50am
Even half.com? This is just incredible.
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post #23 of 29
11/20/09 at 10:54am
So that was what was on my credit card few months ago. My wife checks our credit bills very carefully each month before we pay our balances. We usually pay off our credit card bills full each month and she noticed one odd transaction which we couldn't figure out. After few phone inquiries, we found out this company charged our credit card when I responded to "free shipping" option but I don't remember agreeing to any contract. So when I called their operator and complaint about it, they immediately dropped the monthly charge without any question but the operator surely tried to pursuade me to stay with their "promotion" benefit.

At the end of this rather unethical business practice, I ended up paying more than "free shipping" I got from that order. We just need to be more careful when we do business online. And thanks for this important warning, Pangea.
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post #24 of 29
11/24/09 at 2:17pm
Thread Starter 
UPDATE to the original article...
E-tailers snagged in marketing 'scam' blame customers | Security - CNET News
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post #25 of 29
11/24/09 at 7:15pm
Just read through this... absolutely incredible. Thank you for posting the link Pangaea.
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post #26 of 29
11/25/09 at 4:26pm
Got hit with this scam back a few months ago through Fandango.. grr..
$15 may not seem like a lot at first, but unnoticed through several months, it stacks up and gets pretty annoying
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post #27 of 29
11/27/09 at 5:07am
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Originally Posted by tamahome77 View Post
ARgg! Even pizza hut??!?! I wanted to boycott all of them but Pizza hut! They make my favorite pizzas.
The one with the bread and the tomato sauce? Yeah, I love that one too.

It's hard to find stuff that surprises you these days on the internet; duping people into having them give you money every month? Expected. A bunch of respected companies doing it? Not as much.

What was that old saying my dad used to tell me, "Son, a fool and his money are soon... Well, broke as s***"
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post #28 of 29
11/27/09 at 5:23am
Am I the only one who thought this thread was going to be about CNET doing the scamming? Misleading title, I say! You... you scammer!!
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post #29 of 29
11/27/09 at 6:47am
My mother had something like this charged to her card for like 6 months, it was only when i came home between semesters that i found out and got on the horn to cancel it for her, it was such a pain in the ass, at one point i thought it might just be easier to cancel the card and get a new CC number issued for my mother.
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