By the way if anyone fancies complaining the details are:
Tel: +1.4252740657
Fax: +1.4256960234
PMB 368, 14150 NE 20th St - F1
C/O thinkall.com
Bellevue, WA 98007
US-Carol Haynes (June 08, 2006, 04:57 AM)
> I just wanted to alert you and others that there is a court
> case against Think All Publishing for ripping off consumers. Am not
> sure if refunds will be available. Please let others know. I think it is through the FRC.
Looks like your are right. The US Federal Trade Commission has loned them up.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/01/manay.htm
Not before time IMHO.
The next internet rogues the FTC should get are Registerfly.
Jeff-JeffK (February 28, 2007, 01:28 PM)
I have just noted a $120 Cdn. charge on my credit card from Highbeam
Research. Apparently, my trial period ended five days ago and has been
converted into a full membership account. I received no warning of the
trial period coming to an end and was thus afforded no opportunity to
cancel the membership before it's conversion to a paid account. I also
received no receipt from HighBeam Research, nor an e-mail advising me
that my credit card had been charged.
Looks like your are right. The US Federal Trade Commission has loned them up.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/01/manay.htm
Not before time IMHO.
The next internet rogues the FTC should get are Registerfly.
Jeff-JeffK (February 28, 2007, 01:28 PM)
Hey - result ....-Carol Haynes (May 29, 2007, 07:49 AM)
Reading this thread has brought back some bad memories with a silver lining - a lesson learned. I got burned in a similar manner - for a lot more money - by HighBeam (http://www.highbeam.com) research.-Darwin (May 29, 2007, 08:46 AM)
If you don't want to be too obvious get the expiry date wrong or 'accidentally' transpose two numbers in the card number.-Carol Haynes (May 29, 2007, 11:08 AM)
It's worked for me in the past.-Carol Haynes (July 31, 2007, 03:39 AM)
The operator of a software company that used automatic memberships to trick people into spending money for free software agreed to pay a $2.1 million settlement to pay them back. Yuri Mintskovsky, owner of Think All Publishing, admitted no wrongdoing in settling with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.-http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/63420.html
Yuri Mintskovsky, owner of Think All Publishing, admitted no wrongdoing in settling with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
To me it sounds a lot like "we will pay you more if we can all agree to pretend we never did anything wrong".-mouser (June 17, 2008, 09:05 AM)