What common place scam? If you’re referring to the old “we’ll give’em a month free and then hope they forget to cancel their membership next month so we can charge’em $20” scam, that’s clearly not what happened.
Please, do try reading for comprehension.
For the future;
Don’t trust the internet
Don’t trust porn sites.
Really don’t trust a combo of the two.
Snark; What the hell did you expect? There is a reason that porn has a reputation of putting. cooties on peoples computers…
Snark-ier:
I lmao at the topic/user name combo.
Thank you for that at least…
ETA: Better Business Bureau. Report/rate the business…
Well, I’ve been trusting the internets for 15 years and this is the closest I’ve ever come to being scammed. An instance, I might add, that I got my money back.
And you’re welcome.
How could one not trust the internet, yet trust a particular website within it?
They are counting on you being too embarrassed to go to your bank and say “Hey, I went to this porn site and they ripped me off!”
I would never encourage anybody to spend a second on the BBB for any business. It’s basically a pay to play scam.
You can be the best business in the world but if you don’t give them a bunch of confidential data and pay a registration fee they list you as a grade C, so it’s a scam for the business.
They have absolutely no ability to influence businesses, so it’s a scam for consumers too.
What state is this business registered in? Hell, in what country is this business registered in?
You misrepresent my position just so you can appear to be a smarty-pants and trot out the old “try reading for comprehension” bit? Ha ha, fail.
No, the scam I was talking about is promising not to charge your credit card yet burying the fine print where they explain they actually will.
Serious question, why do you think they asked for your info if they weren’t going to use it?
I tell you what PlainJain, the site I’m referring to is Porn Hub live. Go over the fine print yourself and if you can show me where it says what you claim it says, I’ll buy you a years membership to this board.
The Secret Service handles US credit card fraud cases.
And be prepared to wait in line as they have thousands of open cases going at any one time.
Lesson learned: NEVER give out your credit card unless it’s a trusted site and you are planning on purchasing something,
Is there any place on that site that shows where they are physically established?
You mean where it says in the Terms and Conditions
?
And I didn’t even have to explore the site very much to find that (although it looks “interesting”:eek:)
Ding! Ding! Ding! You win a year’s membership on this board, compliments of Shakes!
(One might have hoped instead for a year’s membership at Pr0n Hub.) :o
Except that Shakes didn’t use their services and he explained the the thread what those services are (ie. going into a one-on-one webcam/chat). Nothing in that statement gives them permission to charge the credit card for nothing nor does it express that there will be an ongoing fee charged. It says that you understand that when you go into a pay area you will be charged for it.
That’s his definition of services. Nothing stopping them from determining that their services include viewing the “interesting” pictures and action. The fact that some of their services are/were free does not compel them to always make them free.
That statement said it reserves the right. It doesn’t mean they actually WILL. Which is exactly what Plainjane claims is buried deep with in the legalese. And besides, I posted this thread a couple of days ago. Their price is still listed as free.
I don’t know what I think is more hilarious:
a) giving people your credit card number unless you actively wish to pay for something
b) paying for porn in a world where we have the internet.
But it does mean that they CAN. And I wouldn’t call it buried very deeply.
Sure they CAN. Any business has the right to change its prices. How is that relevant to the conversation? You may have a point if they actually did change their prices, but they didn’t.