Classmates review: renewal fees deduction automatic without approval 53

Last year I joined a site called Classmates.com. It was only $9.95 for one year. Today my credit card was billed for $39.95 a charge I did not authorize . To me this is unscrupulous and dirty way of doing business. Anyone reading this PLEASE IF YOU ARE IN THIS COMPANY GET OUT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. IF ENOUGH PEOPLE QUIT THEIR COMPANY THEY MIGHT LEARN TO TREAT PEOPLE RIGHT. LETS TEACH THEM A LESSON. QUIT CLASSMATES.COM AND BANKRUPT THEM. PLEASE HELP ME TAKE THEM DOWN.IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER WE CAN DO IT.

This company is without ethics! I had an account for $19.99 for a year, i was auto charged the following year, as soon as i realized i called the company. They informed me that when i signed up i was automatically agreeing to be "auto-renewed" and that there was nothing they would do about it. I then changed my account to manual. They changed it to "auto renew", when i called this time they told me to read the agreement and i had it on auto-renewal. I argued with them and called my credit card company. Then i went to "my account" and made sure to remove my credit card information. I thought it might be a one time mistake and i would just learn from it.

Now they've done the exact same thing to my son... Changing his from manual to auto! I know it was manual because i was there when he set up his account, i made sure it was on manual. They not only charged his account but they charged $39.99! An amount i have never seen offered! I'm furious because discover said they would investigate and now refuses to refund!

One membership purchased at Classmates almost five years ago led to an unauthorized credit card charge one year later which I disputed and won. Then, FOUR YEARS later suddenly there's a charge on my credit card for Memory Lane. Numerous emails and calls complaining resulted in them declaring they have the right to do this. They don't. It's theft, pure and simple. I swallowed the $60.00 loss and had to change credit cards to avoid it ever happening again. DON'T JOIN MEMORY LANE OR CLASSMATES...THEY WILL STEAL FROM YOU TOO. It's not worth it.

I had classmates.com.. at one point it stated (years ago!) that I was a GOLD member and was lifetime. ok.. but not so. they keep billing my credit card for the $39.00 as stated in other cases before mine! SOMEONE has to be able to put a stop to this. I NEVER authorized them to keep deducting. I have contacted several times via emails etc. and only to be told in so many words that I HAVE to pay as I signed up for it > NO we are senior citizens and CANNOT afford a bunch of "extras" in our budget. will someone please help me get rid of this. It is stressful to our health to keep fighting this! thanks in adavance! KM HOOFTALLEN

Classmates.com took $39.00 from my checking account so I called the bank I do business with and they told me I would have to get in touch with Classmates to discuss a refund. When I called the number, I got a voice mail directing me to their web site. The choices on their web site do not give a space to withdraw membership. They offered a price of $9.95 last year when I signed up and now their price has gone up and according to the bank, because it is a subscription, I have to contact them. They are a rip-off.

The company renewed my membership without notification. I never agreed to an automatic renewal. Upon pulling up MY copy of the agreement, nowhere is an automatic renewal even mentioned. I do not wish to continue any relationship with this flim-flam company. Please pro-rate, return the 11 months of payments that I don't want. My page on the site was torn down online by the company on July 9th. So I, an Arizona teacher looking at a pay cut, need that CASH returned to my account now. I never agreed to any renewal.

I DIDNT AUTHORIZE THIS 39.00 DOLLARS TO BE TAKEN OUT OF MY BANK ACCOUNT AND I WANT IT PUT BACK ASAP. THANKS, bamonroe52@yahoo.com

Website has little participation from alumni of my specific high school, therefor I have little to no use for it. The problem is, having decided to vacate my subscription, I could find no way to do so. Only through several redirects did I finally get an e-mail address to contact them directly. They were extremely persistent in trying to convince me to just let it run out, assuring me that when it did (on July 13, '11) I would not be automatically renewed. As of 8-13-11 I'm still receiving alerts, e-mails, newsletters etc. from them. The alerts are always the same; "See who signed your guestbook". But it's never anyone new! Since July of 2010 I've gotten maybe 6 contacts total. And half of them are people I never even knew because they're from classes years after I graduated. I've sent them at least 2 e-mails (sternly worded) since my subscription "expired". They apologize for my frustration, and claim to want to "resolve my concerns" and yet they seem incapable of understanding or acknowledging what they are! And, by the way, they're STILL sending me all that useless crap that I have to delete (twice) from my e-mail on a nearly daily basis. I'm totally fed up with them, and I've told them so in an increasingly profane and undignified manner! Somebody, please make them GO AWAY!

Well, I joined Classmates, afew yrs. sgo--- not sure if its been 3 yrs. yet... Anyways, to my problem--I was sent overdrawn notice Classmates did an unauthorized draft from this acct. They will pay all overdraft chgs..plus undo the $59.00 charge for Gold Membership----they sent no notice to me... I currently have a new e-mail and if they have a problem, then they better get ready to undo my problem-Contact-----CLASSMATES MYSELF--- THEY WOULD NOT DO A UNAUTHORIZED CHARGE AGAINST THEM FOR ME...? PLUS just afew months ago, I gave a fee of $9.95 for a yrs. membership (may have been less_) but needless---- I want CLASSMATES TO TAKE CARE OF THIS MATTER AND CLEAR UP THIS PROBLEM THEY MADE------- NOW... MY NEW E-MAIL IS: halfpintlgc68@aol.com I look for a ANSWER from YOU ---- like within the next 5 days... thanks, Linda Gillen Cashwell

company automatically debited our account without warning and put us into overdraft. every penny counts these days and we have been so careful with our money. we are in the middle of filing for bankruptcy and would have liked a warning at least via e-mail that this were about to happen so as to prevent overdraft. this is a non-refundable fee, as i have found out from calling them and they refuse to credit us but will cancel automatic billing which i never signed up for in the beginning. I would advise no one to deal with this company! I will pass the word on!

I discovered a charge on my credit card while checking my account online that I did not remember authorizing. I keep extensive records on all credit purchases, and the charge for $39 was not found, nor was Classmates found in any of my records.
I have just visited another website in which the victim of Classmate's "practices" describedthe "How-They-Did-That": It seems that when you sign up with Classmates for the first time, you agree to their lengthy fine print "Agreement". Buried in that agreement, on page 7, in fine print, it states that you agree to automatic renewal. Further, there are no refunds. Worse, if you dispute the charge with your credit card company, they can provide a copy of the agreement and you are out $39. There is no recourse.
If you close your account, you forfeit anything you have paid them.
I recommend that you immediately file a dispute with your credit card company and then ask the credit card company to issue a new card with a different account number. Yes, that is a real hassle - I've gone through that before - and will now need to do it again.
A caution if you cancel your credit card or change account number: If you have monthly payments to a merchant charged on the card, make sure you notify them about the change in the account number.

I'm an elderly senior citizen and I thought I knew how to avoid these type of business practices. I guess I'm not nearly as knowledgeable as I thought I was.

I only signed up for classmates .com for 1 month, they have continues to take money from my account for 5 months now. Have tried to cancel serveral times. I am not able to sign into my account, I have called severals times and always get a recording saying not in at this time, no matter what day and what time I call. I do not want this service and I do want my money back for the last 5 months, 15.00 a month for something I did not subscribe for but one month is getting a little out of hand.

I signed up for a reduced price special about 6 months ago. I checked it over and over to make sure there was no auto-renewal acceptance as part of it. I just got charged for an auto-renewal that I did not want. I asked Memory Lane to show me where I agreed to the auto-renewal and they can't do that, but they have not refunded the money either.

THIS "SERVICE" HAS NO TELEPHONE NUMBER, OR CUSTOMER SERVICE EMAIL ADDRESS.
THEIR METHODS OF BILLING ARE UNACCEPTIBLE. ONCE THEY BILL YOUR CREDIT CARD, YOU CANNOT GET YOUR MONEY REFUNDED, IF THE AMOUNT THEY CHARGED YOU IS MUCH HIGHER THAN STATED.

They have been taking $15 out of my account every three months for a service that I never asked for! This is a big scam operation

I recieved my billing statement today and noticed Classmates billed me twice.Once on 1-16 and then on 1-24 please remove the 1-24th payment of $39.00. Thank you
Verna Humburg Hampton, Iowa 50441

We started seeing charges on our bank account atarting in January of last year. They have now ammassed charges of $415.08. Have contacted them on their website customer contact and they will not respond.

Checking my bank acct saw that classmates had run 39.95 charge when I called was told no refund and my gold membership would expire on 4 Nov 2011 I will not use this again and consider this lesson learned

An amount of $39.00 was charged to my Visa account. I haven't been on Classmates.com for 9 months. Why did I get a yearly fee of $39.00 on my card?

I did not authorize $ 39..00 billing. Please credit my Visa.
I also called Visa to deduct from my billing.
Thanks You
Sebastian R. Papa
83 Ivy Lane
Newington, CT 06111
sebbypapa@aol.com
[protected]

I was charged $39.00 on my Capital One Credit Card for which I did not authorize. I can't understand how you can get away with a scam like this.

I have requested cancellation of the classmates billing repeatedly and again this month I recieved my visa bill and there is another charge for classmates. Please cancel this immediately.

NOTIFIED ME TO CONTACT MY CLASSMATE WHO DIED LAST WEEK! This is sick. I will never, ever use them again and suggest others do the same. I suggest using facebook.

Same thing happened to me.

Yesterday I joined Classmates for 3 months for $7.50. Today on my checking account there were two charges for $7.50. Would you please credit my account for the additional billing? Thanks, Lola Leggio, lleggio@live.com or call my cell phone: [protected].

I want to cancel = I do not use the site at all - have sent 3 requests - have not gotten a response. I just want them to take me out and stop charging me.

Classmates/MemoryLane is made up of a bunch of rip-off artists. They took $39.00 from my bank account without warning. Even though I am on "AUTO-RENEWAL" (which I DO NOT remember signing up for), there should STILL be a warning sent a week in advance so that we have the option of cancelling. I mean, who the hell can remember after one whole year?!?! I emailed them and got a response from "Reba" telling me that there is no paid account associated with my email address on file. I immediately emailed back and gave the ### the what-for. Then I called that 206 phone number, and it was merely a message telling me to look at the "FAQ" section of the website. And I don't know who the hell you are, "Calvin247365", but it sounds like you work for the company. You're an ### along with the rest of them.

I just encountered the same where they took $39 out of my account and when I disputed the charge (on the same day as the withdraw) the Rep. "Dan" told me that it is non-refundable. It was when I threatened to file a complaint against Classmates he offered a "one time exception" to refund my account. He then told me that it will take 30 days for the refund to take place. So, I made him repeat his name, date of the call and confirmation that I will receive a refund before leaving the call. YES, VERY UNETHICAL INDEED!

Needless to say, I have canceled my account with Classmates and will relentlessly post on Facebook and Twitter to be aware of Classmates unethical practice.

I sign up for one month service and now am being automatically charged again without my knowledge.

I phoned them spring of 2010 to cancel this membership. I was told there was no refund, but, it would not be renewed. Today, I see on my bank statement a charge of $39.00 that was totally unexpected. I don't use the site and don't want the subscription. It seems they do not honor cancellations. I am calling them tomorrow and am sure it will take many attempts to get someone to acknowledge the call.

MAKE SURE YOU GET A CANCELLATION NUMBER FROM CLASSMATES AND DELETE ANY CREDIT CARD INFO YOU HAVE ON YOUR ACCOUNT NOW. SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME.

get the cancellation code from them to give to the credit card company

I signed up for one year, I dont remember what it stated about auto renew. I do know I don't like leaving my acct info online so i went to delete it and classmates.com told me it could not be deleted until the charge had cleared and I forgot to delete the info and they changed the fee to 39, and charged without even a renewal reminder email. VERY UNETHICAL! They should be shut down. Rachel and Calvin you sound like employees that have to sit and get yelled at all day cause your company sucks!

I have never used Classmates.com, but have found from experience, that if you click yes to their agreement
they may have you agreeing to an automatic renewal of their services . They call it their End Users License Agreement (ELUA), and it
probably has 15 pages of nonsense that none of us read. Can you go to their site and view this by any chance ? Have you contacted
your credit card company, and filed a dispute with them ? Sometimes this will work...sometimes it won't !

they did the same thing to me---never sent me an e-mail asking if i wanted to renew unauthorized payment also .i found it on my bank statement something has to be done

Barbara Nunez

clasmates has gone in to my bank acoount and has charged me 39.00 without my permission and i have no one to speak with edgewood87@msn.com

I did not ask them to renew my trial membership to classmates. They charged me 39.00 and will not refunf it. Is that legal?

i am not the only being charged with out knowing it. i see clasmates is doing bad bussiness, i want the money returned to my credit card

I like classmates. It's been a fun way to get back in touch with old high school acquaintances. True, the auto-renew policy isn't in fine print, but they *are* being unethical. I signed up for a year, and set renewal to manual last year. Then, early this year, I also found an auto-renewal charge on my credit card statement, with no warning, and with a non-descriptive phone number for the name of the payee. So they switched it back to auto on me. I just went back and changed it to manual again. I suspect they switch it to auto every time you choose to renew, so you have to change it after each renewal.