Stephen
Springfield,#2Author of original report
Mon, June 05, 2006
what it boils down to is this. the system has decided to allow the following type of criminal element to freely reside and do "business" on the internet. If you closely read their TOS and privasy policy you can see that they come right out and say in so many words that they are protecting themselves from any harm or damages or consquences of any kind, and that they aren't really responsible for providing the user anything at all, and that they use trojan imaging to accomplish their goal of nickel and diming unsuspecting consumers whther they want to "subscribe" or not. Basically what they are saying is that they are going to take your money and that if you're too stupid to know what it says in their tos and privacy policy; that they will contine to do so. I guess the authorities are accepting the perpetrators idealogy of well if they're not caring enough to know then they're too stupid to hang onto their money. It's said that a fool and his\her moeny are soon parted. I guess this shows it's quite true. The internet is rapidly losing its' appeal. Ghekko out. Have a nice day.
Stephen
Springfield,#3Author of original report
Mon, June 05, 2006
There simply is no protection for the consumer making the mistake of buying anyting online, or buying into anything online; whether it be an idea service or product. It's just like Ebays' bull$hit square trade garuantee that recently caused hundreds of people to be defrauded of over a million dollars. Yeah, they finally caught this guy, but only because the people that lost the money took the law into their own hands and did the dirty work of leading the authorities to him. Ebay doesn't do $hit. Lousy 10 bucks back for a grand lost. What a rip eh? Crap like that is why I quit buying on ebay a LONG time ago. Anymore the most I do is maybe do a search for something within my area and then I contact the buyer and if they want to do a person to person transaction then we deal. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY I DO IT ANYMORE. After having been ripped off by crooked sellers through ebay and seeing how pathetic their buyer protection truly is, their garauntees are crap. The only ones ebay are interested in protecting are THE SELLERS because the sellers that pay their fees ARE EBAYS BREAD AND BUTTER. Scru ebay. Anyway, on with the update regarding reservation rewards aka webloyalty. *sigh* I discovered the reason his party has been getting away with this for so long and will probably continue to get away with it until the ftc and or fbi get enough complaints to push it far enough up the list of things to do. I did in fact file complaints with the relevant agencies - it doesn't take long but I don't expect significant results. I called Norwalk and found out that business licensing isn't done by the city it's handled by the state (wonder if that has anything to do with them moving from Shelton to Norwalk maybe Shelton got tired of phone calls regarding them). So I called the relevant number they gave me and the state told me something about due to the type of business it was they weren't required to have a bloody license. Woof, I'm in the wrong state it seems. It's nice to know you can operate an online business selling discount club memberships without any license whatsoever.I guess. Somehow that seems retarded. Anyhow, I also called the Dept. of revenue to see if they had a tax id, because for all intensive purposes they have got pay taxes (cause see I'm thinking maybe I can send them up for tax evasion if nothing else). I may have found a quicksand pit for them there. Did a search for webloyalty.com and reservation rewards.com (one and two words) and came up with zilch. So NOW I'm going to see what steps I need to take to report them to the IRS for tax evasion. They could be listed under a different name or something I dunno much about all that, I'll leave that to the irs to dig up (I mean after all they're so big on gettin every dime they shouldn't mind takin a brief look at this dump to make sure all their ducks are in a row). Only other thing I can say about my efforts this morning is that I got the expected results from the local police dept. Talked to some detective who didn't wanna get off his lazy donut eatin a$$ to go over to merritt seven and report back with whatever he found (as if to find out if there is even an office belonging to this bunch of crooks there or not). Think I'll keep lookin' til I find someone in Norwalk willing to go over and take a look for me (I have my means\methods). US BANK sucks too. They're in bed with aol. They'll never get a dime out of me for aol. Aol can go to hell. DON'T EVER USE AOL. NOT EVEN FOR THE "FREE TRIAL". Because what they will do is basically just refuse to cancel your service and bill your account whether you want it or not. USBANK doesn't give a $hit either.They sent an account I had with them 300 some dollars into the red, because I drew everything out but a couple dollars and told US Bank adamantly that aol was not authorised to incur any further charges to the account. They did anyway. Scru aol and US BANK both. Guess I should be glad I wasn't one of the unfortunate hundreds possibly thousands of people getting scrued on their mortgages through US Bank. Crime and corruption and deception seems to be the accepted norm anymore. And what recourse are we left with? Filing complaints. Wow man. I'm impressed. Whatever. I just don't understand the logic behind scruing ones' customers. It seems self destructive. I guess they depend on a fresh generation of idiots every couple of years to help keep them all in business. Vigilante groups need to be formed or something. Systems' busted a$$ just don't work, don't do it's job anymore. H*ll,.. I do mine - I go to work. I pay the d@mn bills. I keep the wolf away. Why the h*ll are these businesses gettin away with the crap they are? Because we're depending on a crooked a$$ system that doesn't do it's job anymore. And yet they still expect us to respect them. whatever.