My latest Cingular cell phone bill had a $10.95 charge for something called m-Qube. I called Cingular and they said this would be a recurring charge, and I had them cancel it. Then I went to m-Qube online and could not figure out exactly what they did, and from the description, certainly couldn’t figure out what service they provided that would possibly be worth over $100 a year. I am sure my daughter downloaded something via her phone, but I am at a loss to really understand exactly what we have received for this money, and why it would now become a monthly subscription charge.
It sounds like the billing service for those commercials you see on late night tv where you text a message to 123039 or whatever and they send you a game, ringtone, or wallpaper. In the fine print on some of those commercials I’ve noticed a monthly fee.
The m-Qube website implies that they or Cingular should be able to tell you what service was subscribed to, in case you wish to know.
Well, Cingular has no idea, and a phone call to m-Qube just tells you to fill out their online form to cancel service. I must go to sleep too early, I’ve never seen those comercials of which you speak.
Also, the fact that they charge the purchaser, instead of the company that contracted their services makes it sound like a real scam.
You’re not alone, and according to some of these it takes more then a phone call to cancel the “service”
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Music biz folks are shaking their heads in amazement. You can download a whole song to your Ipod for $.99, or you can download a few seconds of it to your phone as a ringtone for $9.99. It moggles my bind, too. :smack:
Meh.
Buy a data cable. Put the songs on yourself. Screw the bloody pay-per-ringtone sites and (dis)services; most of them are scams anyway.