Posted on 07/30/2004 7:23:13 AM PDT by hardhead
"Has anyone else had trouble with them continuing to bill your credit card after you cancelled?
"We did the free trial period last year and then cancelled. But somehow our credit card kept getting billed. We finally got it stopped, and have since learned that this is a common AOL scam. The Federal Trade Commission finally put the screws to them about this tactic, but I'm sure it still goes on. It's comical that the online provider does not have a way for you to cancel online, but of course they know if it was that easy, too many people would do it."
I and others in N California had something similiar. We tried the DSL offered by AOL. It never worked, yet we got billed for it every month. I would call up my credit card company and complain. The credit card company said there was nothing they could do about it.
So, I got another credit card and cancelled the other credit card. Then I cancelled my AOL account and left AOL as they didn't know my new credit card #.
I have been waiting to drop this on the lap of the SEC for fraud in billing and will do so after the November election.
I don't know what the deal is, but my mom has Outlook Express that works with her SBC Yahoo DSL account.
For some reason, we never can get AOL attachments.
But, it works fine when I get them in my Yahoo mail.
Has anybody heard of this problem? (figured I would try to ask now rather than posting a vanity thread)
BTW......AOL: internet for dummies
Why would somebody lie about AOL?
It is pathetic that they can't get a good spam filter when Yahoo's is the bomb.
I Would not use AOL if you paid me to .
I have that much contemp for them
I live in a town of 13,000.
We have multiple internet providers...literally 30 different manufacturing companies here (one of the most booming places in the state with very very low unemployment)...we have several cell phone providers, several big-name restarurants like Applebees.
But, no local AOHell number.
AOL is beyond pathetic that they still have not gotten a local number to us.
Not that we would pay for idiot internet when you can pay for the real thing.
I agree. My ISP is SBC which has Yahoo manage their DSL service and their spam filter works great. I maybe get one or two pieces of spam that sneak through a week, the rest is trapped in the filter which I scan several times daily to make sure it hasnt taken something that I want.
I checked a clients email for him recently when he was out of the country. He uses AOL and I couldnt believe how much spam he received in his inbox relative to what was trapped in his spam filter. To top it off, he got tons of stuff from Move-on.org which I consider spam whether he does or not. :-)
I have used AOL for years.
I have sent many hundreds of e-mails with Christian key words and never been blocked that I know of. I get replys sent back to me from my friends.
Patricia
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