I just busted them for attempting to sign me up for monthly Prime membership without my consent, canceled my account. Keep a close eye on your CC statements, I can't believe this is an isolated occurrence.
A word of warning for non-Prime Amazon users-
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You sure you didn't press the wrong button, notice during checkout they put that Shilling for Prime in your face.
They didn't do it out of the blue. You clicked on something.
Originally Posted By: Vern_in_IL
You sure you didn't press the wrong button, notice during checkout they put that Shilling for Prime in your face.
Was it a preselected option during a checkout, like how some places "conveniently" have you with the highest charge shipping as the default?
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I was the one who complained about it. I think what they do is automatically have you set for free shipping with prime and if you aren't paying attention you get setup for a 30 day free trial. I just make sure the prime membership option isn't selected before and after I buy something.
so worth it for me as well. their online video and movie database is really good also. saves me almost 70$ per month over cable with that and netflix.
Same here, they automatically charged me before the free trial was over. You have to watch them, they are sneaky.
Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
I just busted them for attempting to sign me up for monthly Prime membership without my consent, canceled my account. Keep a close eye on your CC statements, I can't believe this is an isolated occurrence.
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Amazon is the Borg Collective of retail . . .
Resistance is Futile.
Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
I just busted them for attempting to sign me up for monthly Prime membership without my consent, canceled my account. Keep a close eye on your CC statements, I can't believe this is an isolated occurrence.
Originally Posted By: ArcticDriver
Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
I just busted them for attempting to sign me up for monthly Prime membership without my consent, canceled my account. Keep a close eye on your CC statements, I can't believe this is an isolated occurrence.
I accidentally did this once myself. Amazon sent an automated email welcoming me to Prime. I immediately canceled. Since the first 30 days were free I did have Prime for that time period. Might be worth taking advantage of this if you wanted a bunch of stuff that would normally have shipping charged. The last thing I bought from Amazon was an electric lawn mower which qualified for free shipping anyway.
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Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
I just busted them for attempting to sign me up for monthly Prime membership without my consent, canceled my account. Keep a close eye on your CC statements, I can't believe this is an isolated occurrence.
Originally Posted By: user52165
Originally Posted By: bullwinkle
I just busted them for attempting to sign me up for monthly Prime membership without my consent, canceled my account. Keep a close eye on your CC statements, I can't believe this is an isolated occurrence.
I still don't understand why this is worth getting all worked up about.
Its not like they stole your credit card and sold your personal info to Nigeria.
They charged your card...apparently in error...and then issied a credit without any argument.
As for choosing FleaBay over Amazon...I ask again why bite off your nose to spite your face...ebay is the worst when it comes to enforcing merchants to return funds even when they are busted for counterfeit parts...and half their items are counterfeit.
RA is typically cheaper anyway, even with their shipping charges.
Rock is also staffed with people who actually know something about cars and parts and on the one occasion that I had to return a bad part, they were extremely accommodating and shipped a replacement even before I'd sent back the old part, using a UPS call tag at their expense.
RA also hosts no third party sellers and their product descriptions and pricing are fully transparent and never in any way deceptive or subject to lawyerly interpretation. Can't say that for Amazon.
I only buy from Amazon when I can't buy the product elsewhere. eBay is often cheaper or about the same, and with eBay shipping is faster since you typically don't have a seller that's going to wait 2 weeks before shipping like Amazon does.
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