4521, Report:
#11307
Posted Date:
Jan 11 2002
Worldcom MCI Cell Phone Rip-Off: Worldcom opens account, Customer can't close it.
In August, 2000, after listening to a telephone solicitation from Worldcom Wireless, I received a cell phone. I attempted to call the 800 number for more information.
I could not get through, so I promptly sent the phone back through UPS (I still have the tracking number)But for...
Entity
Worldcom Woreless
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
4522, Report:
#10362
Posted Date:
Jan 01 2002
Smile Care Riverside California unneeded treatment to enrich themselves. Beware
Smile Care offers a plan that supplements your insurance that costs $50. According to the plan, after you pay the $50 membership fee you shouldn't have to pay anything at all for any work they do on your teeth. During your exam they will try to sell you on some expensive treatment...
Entity
Smile Care
Categories: Dental Services
4523, Report:
#9061
Posted Date:
Dec 11 2001
UCSB student health Dental crown rip-off
A tooth of mine was giving me troubles so I decided to go to a dentist to see what it was.
I am a student at the University of Cal. at Santa Barbara. So, believing that the student health center would be the most affordable and sympathetic to the monetary stains students are in,...
Entity
Dentist at UCSB ripped me off
Categories: Dental Services
4524, Report:
#8947
Posted Date:
Dec 10 2001
Peoples Prescription Plan, they will not stop billing my credit card!
I agreed to try Peoples Prescription Plan in April of 2001. I chose a one-time, 6-month period payment plan using my credit card in order to limit my trial period to 6 months and to prevent direct monthly (and ongoing, going, going...) billings.
After using the plan a couple o...
Entity
Peoples Prescription Plan
Categories: Medical Supplies
4525, Report:
#8762
Posted Date:
Dec 06 2001
GGW Girls Gone Wild They Screwed MY CreditFOX 6 investigative reporter John Mattes first broke the story how Girls Gone Wild was marketing videos for only $9.99 consumers found the company tacking on huge fees. Thousands of consumers called it a rip-off on ripoffreport. After our story aired an attorney sued calling it deceptive advertising. Video part 1 Video part 2
I ordered the two tapes for 9.99. Since then they have sent me six other videos and have charged my credit card 23.98 for each. At first I thought they were complimentary but after I saw that there billings had made my credit card go over the limit I realized they weren't. I call...
Entity
GGW Video - Girls Gone Wild
Categories: Video Stores
4526, Report:
#8570
Posted Date:
Dec 03 2001
Alltel is very crooked.
Notice: Dates in this report are approximate, not exact.
I signed up for an analog phone and plan in October 1999 through Kansas Cellular. At some point in the following year, Alltel bought out Kansas Cellular. The plan was a special promotion to Farm Bureau members. My father...
Entity
Alltel
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
4527, Report:
#8572
Posted Date:
Dec 03 2001
MCI WorldCom Wireless Rip-off
After a year of endless problems with WorldCom Wireless accounting service, I sent the company a service termination notice today. The most recent foul-up (polite version): On Nov 5 I mailed a payment for which I subsequently received a past due notice and on Nov 20 I called custome...
Entity
Bob Obrey
Categories: Cellular Phone Companies
4528, Report:
#6932
Posted Date:
Dec 01 2001
HRS USA rip-off Late payment fees *REBUTTAL ..Refund from the U.S. Postal Service!
On October 3, 2001, I called Best Buy to learn why I had not received a bill for two months, at which time I had been sending in payment without a bill. They have reported that the check I sent in August still have not arrived, and the check sent for September posted on time. Howe...
Entity
HRS USA
Categories: Credit Services
4529, Report:
#7421
Posted Date:
Oct 30 2001
Crossroads Animal Clinic, Knoxville, Tn. Heartless Bastards
Crossroads Animal Clinic in Knoxville, Tn. refused treatment of an animal I had just hit with my car. Treatment was refused based on the fact that I could not immediately pay the clinic an enormous amount of money to insure the treatment would be properly paid for.
The clinic ...
Entity
Crossroads Animal Clinic
Categories: Veterinarian Services
4530, Report:
#7399
Posted Date:
Oct 29 2001
HOMEDALE AUTO SALVAGE RIP-OFF FRAUD LIARS
In July of 2001, we were given a 92 Ford Ranger, to give to our oldest son when he got older, by my mother in-law (who was his whole world) that passed away at the end of that month. We decided to move to Idaho in August, so we went to Uhaul to get a trailer to haul our stuff. Uha...
Entity
HOMEDALE AUTO SALVAGE
Categories: Body Work & Repair