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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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You’ve seen the ads. A certain company is offering 2 pair of Leggings for $24.

It’s Fabletics. They have nice stuff. Their leggings and active wear is high quality. Comfortable. Pretty expensive. I have a pair from Amazon.
I see the ad and say hey $12 for leggings is cheap. I’m gonna get me some.

I punch up their web site. Same old routine. Type in your info. Check out what they have to offer. They have low stock or not available on a bunch of the items. I succeed and finding two pair I like.
Oh goody. I’m a new member I’ll get free shipping too.
Wait…how did I become a member?

I decided just filling out the info makes me a member. Yay! I’ll be getting loads of ads. I can fix that problem later.

I go to the check out page. Fill in credit card info, mailing address. And click pay now. Oops I missed a box:
In tiny print, barely readable is a teeny tiny box to click on. I almost clicked it. It’s a terms and conditions box. I decide I might oughta read it.

It wasn’t easy. Pale print on a pale background it says I must agree as a member to allow the company to take $64.99 monthly from my credit card as a membership fee.

Are they insane? On crack? Think I’m stupid?

$24 bucks and I’ll pay $65 bucks per month for eternity and most likely never buy another thing.

Nope don’t think so.

Deleted my order.

Immediately got that email to let me know my cart will be saved for 20 days. Thx, but no thx.

A few minutes later “As a new customer, do you have questions, we see you left your cart full?”
Delete.

A few more minutes “Can we ask why, valued customer, why you’ve not completed your order?”
Delete.

About a hour later, a e-coupon to apply to my cart. Use with other discounts. I figured it up in my head. My $24 worth of leggings, free shipping would be about $7.
Delete.

I’m sure my inbox is full today. I haven’t looked yet.
I’ll block them later today.

How in hell can they do this?

Is it really legal?

Either way, it’s sneaky, skeevy and makes me MAD :rage:.

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That immediately makes me suspicious. I should not have to provide any info just to browse a retailer’s website. So I opened the site (in an incognito window) and started to look at some men’s wear. As soon as I clicked on something to get more info, a pop-up window appeared, “We got you covered beyond just activewear! Are you interested in any of these other categories?” I hate pop-up windows that interfere with my browsing.

And regarding the idiotic sixty-dollar membership, apparently you can cancel it monthly but only between the first and the fifth of the month, as the charge is applied on the sixth of the month.

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I would immediately forget to cancel that. Maybe the third time I’d actually realize it.

So I usually look carefully for hidden costs.

Caught 'em at this time.
Jerks.

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Yeah, Yitty (which is Lizzo’s fabletics partnership) almost got me with that once.

I think it was slightly clearer that there was a membership and you could order without one but it would cost more for the items and a hefty shipping cost. I noped out of that option too.

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I had 23 emails from them this afternoon. I didn’t read them all. Most had coupon offers and specials. And lots of thank yous.

Blocked 'em.

All gone.

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Another reason why she’s on my Celebrity Death List! :smile: