1, Report:
#476655
Posted Date:
Aug 05 2009
Shopping Essentials Plus / AP9*ShoppingEssential Trap, disguise, and unauthorized monthly charges Internet
I noticed a strange charge of $19.95 on my July credit card statement. Further investigating I realized this company has been charging me since mid last year without my authorization!
I called this company, they claimed I signed up their service through VitaCost, another online ...
Entity
Categories: Buying Clubs
2, Report:
#470022
Posted Date:
Jul 15 2009
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ deceptive marketing without honest disclosure of monthly charge. Highly unethical and fraudulant Internet
I accessed Restaurants.com to receive discounts to area restaurants in the Fall of 2008. I paid for the discounts with my credit card. I had no intention of also signing up for the monthly charges that were to accrue over the next several months for an unrelated service I did not de...
Entity
Categories: Attorney Generals
3, Report:
#467481
Posted Date:
Jul 08 2009
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+, 888-999- This company has been charging me for a long time in 14.95 increments. Intnernet
The company,AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+, 888-999-, has been charging my credit card.
Forrestspears
Wooster, OhioU.S.A.
Entity
Categories: Internet Fraud
4, Report:
#199422
Posted Date:
Jun 04 2009
Shopping Essential Mall On-line Victim of fraud I'm a Veteran Charged my husbands checking account it's a ripoff Internet
To Whom It May Concern:
I am a veteran and have had my idenity stolen. This account was not open buy me nor did my husband authorized the first charge of $19.95 taken from his account or the second charge of $19.95 or the third charge of $1.00. We have add Fraud alert to all th...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
5, Report:
#452545
Posted Date:
May 16 2009
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ 877-581-0181 CTvistaprint.com business card - credit card ripoff scam Lexington Massachusetts
Order business cards from this company and you will get continuing monthly charges on your card for $14.95 from two fictitious companies each month...$ 29.90 per month. The accounts I see are AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ 877-581-0181 CT and AP9*BUSINESSMAX 888-584-2217 CT.
Store owner ...
Entity
Categories: Internet Fraud
6, Report:
#448915
Posted Date:
May 05 2009
Shopping Esentials Plus Unauthorized Charges on my visa 3 months CT Internet
Three months in a row, February, March and April I noticed charges on my Visa account that were not known to me. They were listed AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+888-999-0564 CT The amount was 11.95 each month. Yesterday, May 4th, I called that number and talked to Keith He said his ID# w...
Entity
Categories: Credit Card Processing (ACH) Companies
7, Report:
#438441
Posted Date:
Mar 28 2009
Shopping Essentials; AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ SCAM: SHOPPING ESSENTIAL CHARGES $14.95/MO WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE Internet
I just noticed that I've been charged $14.95/mo for the last 3 months.
I called my credit company and they told me that I can dispute the charges to date, but I can't stop this company from continuing to charge me. I would have to get a whole new credit card number, which I didn...
Entity
Categories: Internet Fraud
8, Report:
#429592
Posted Date:
Mar 01 2009
AP9*ShoppingEssential - Savings Membership 888-999-0564 rip off, fraud, unauthorized monthly charges Internet *EDitor's Suggestions on how to get your money back into your bank account that someone wrongfully takes it from you!
I first noticed a charge of $14.95 on my November credit card statement from Savings Membership. I am very careful not to subscribe to a membership and new this was not right. I went online and found that I was not the first. I took the advise of someone else and called the compa...
Entity
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
9, Report:
#425633
Posted Date:
Feb 18 2009
AP*shoppingessentials Charged my bank for $14.95. Came from Restaurants.com. Fine print when purchasing. Des Plains Internet
In November 2008, I ordered some discount coupons from restaurant.com and thought that was the end of that. Yesterday, my bank account was charged $14.95 from Debit / VISA DEBIT AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL. They took my debit card information from restaurant.com. When I called them abo...
Entity
Categories: Restaurants
10, Report:
#413275
Posted Date:
Jan 17 2009
Shopping Essentials AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL This fraudulent company automatically withdrawals payments without consent!!! STAY AWAY!! Internet
I do not know how they initially received my credit card number, but I assume it was from an online purchase. I found an entry on my credit card one day that showed up as: AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL [followed by a random string of numbers] It totaled 14.95 and I say that this had happe...
Entity
Categories: Internet Fraud
11, Report:
#412973
Posted Date:
Jan 16 2009
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL Wrongly billed me on my Discover credit card for $19.95 Internet
Received my Discover credit card statement and found a billing from a company that I had not heard of. I phoned Discover and they said they would give me a temporary credit for the $19.95. They will do an investigation for 30 days.
The customer service rep told me that she had ...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
12, Report:
#411160
Posted Date:
Jan 12 2009
AP9 Shoppingessential i found unauthorized charges on my card. i never purchased or contacted this company before. Nationwide
i looked on my bank statement and found this odd charge. didnt know who it was and i know i did not authorize it. i am furious as i was unemployed and to find charges i did not authorize against my acct has really upset my financial situation and has upset me. i now have reported...
Entity
Categories: Credit Card Fraud
13, Report:
#408735
Posted Date:
Jan 06 2009
AP9 Shopping Essentials + Shopping Essentials Plus charged my credit card without my permission. I never knowingly signed up for membership. Connecticut
Today after (unfortunately) I sent in payment for this month's credit card bill, I discovered a $19.95 charge I did not authorize on my bill. It was titled AP9*Shoppingessential+ and listed a phone # in CT 888-999-0564. First I called my credit card company. They were nice but sa...
Entity
Categories: Telemarketers
14, Report:
#359236
Posted Date:
Aug 05 2008
AP9*SAVINGSMART.COM 800-316-8774, AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ 888-999-0564 Fraudulent charges on my Amex account Internet
I recently discovered charges to 2 companies (AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ 888-999-0564, and AP9*SAVINGSMART.COM 800-316-8774) on several of my Amex statements. I was able to contact someone at the 999-05464 number, who indicated that they handled both of the companies, and that the char...
Entity
Categories: Internet Fraud
15, Report:
#357272
Posted Date:
Aug 01 2008
Shopping Essentials Unauthorized Credit Card charges Des Plaines Illinois
This is to document yet another online consumer who has received unauthorized charges from shopping essentials.
Yesterday I noticed a credit auth request from shopping essentials:
Eff Date Amount Type Payee/Ref.
07/28/08 11.95 CARD AUTH SHOPPINGESSENTI
I looked back ...
Entity
Categories: Credit Card Fraud
16, Report:
#288481
Posted Date:
Dec 03 2007
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+, SAVINGSMART.COM For months charged my creditcard repeatedly for membership fees of $20+ unauthorized! Internetsavingsmart.com Internet
I have few creditcards that I keep but make no purchases on. After few months of not checking on them, I checked it one day. I've noticed numerous unexplained charges, some as many times as 4 times a month.
I could only see as far back as 3 months back with my creditcard online...
Entity
Categories: Internet Fraud
17, Report:
#269302
Posted Date:
Aug 22 2007
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ Charged me for no reason even when i canceled Des Plaines Illinois
They charged my check card when im not even a member of their web site. I was but i canceled right away. That was a week ago. They charged 1.00 and from what i've read online im expecting them to charge more so im going to try and close my account as soon as i can. I tried to log ba...
Entity
Categories: Internet Marketing Companies
18, Report:
#261068
Posted Date:
Jul 16 2007
Privacymatters cheat. stole money from my bank account Hartford Internet
i have had money taken from my bank account, i did not authorize any transaction from these people, there are several different ones
they are as follows:
ap9*privacymattersid 888-840-6301
ap9*yoursavingsclu...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
19, Report:
#259814
Posted Date:
Jul 10 2007
Sci*stamps - Ap9*yoursavingsclub Ap9*shoppingessential+ HOW DO THEY DO THIS? ripoff Des Plaines INTERNET *EDitor's Suggestions on how to get your money back into your bank account!
In doing our company books (reconciling bank accounts) I noticed 3 charges that I didn't recognize. I asked my husband/partner about them - also didn't know anything about them. In googling these companies I came up with Ripoff Report which cites all of these companies as somehow ...
Entity
Categories: Corrupt Companies
20, Report:
#257817
Posted Date:
Jun 30 2007
AP9*PASSPORTTOFUN+; AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ FRAUDULENT BILLING Ripoff Connecticut
A rip off company that bills credit cards without authorization. I paid it the first month just because I didn't want to deal with it (first time it was titled PASSPORTTOFUN). The next month I realized it wasn't just a one month deal, it was a contiuous problem. This time I was b...
Entity
Categories: Travel Services
21, Report:
#239840
Posted Date:
Mar 20 2007
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL CHARGED MY CREDIT CARD ,ALSO THROUGH AP*9 TODAY'S ESCAPES, WITHOUT MY KNOWLEDGE NORWALK, CONNECTICUT Internet
This company is a branch of Adaptive Marketing LLC... They got my credit card number and charged me $9.95 on 1/18/07 under the name AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIALS, and $9.95 on 1/18/07 under the name AP9*TODAYSESCAPES. I promptly called the telephone numbers that showed up on my credit card...
Entity
Categories: Sales People
22, Report:
#236276
Posted Date:
Feb 18 2007
VPREWARDSUS - SHOPPINGESSENTIAL - VISTAPRINT - SHOPPINGESSENTIAL made a business card order with vistaprint and they kept charging me for things I never ordered and the charges started showing up under the other aliases that ultimately take u back to vista print on the internet nationwide
2-8-07
VSA PUR AP9 SHOPPINGESSENTIAL 877-581-0181 CT 14.95
2--6-07
VSA PUR AP9 VPREWARDSUS.COM 888-243-6185 CT
14.95
2-06-07
VSA PUR UPC VISTAPRINT.COM 800-721-6214 MA
4.99
wow made one single order for business cards and now they think they can keep charging for imaginary o...
Entity
Categories: Credit Card Fraud
23, Report:
#233738
Posted Date:
Jan 31 2007
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ Charged my card when didn't even know they existed Internet
I got a notice from my bank saying I was overdrafted. So I go and check to see what did it, little be known a place called AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ charged my card for 14.95 and sent me into the hole.
John
Rockport, IndianaU.S.A.
(1>CHARGES TO YOUR CREDIT CARD
If the charge ...
Entity
Categories: Credit Card Fraud
24, Report:
#217052
Posted Date:
Jan 18 2007
AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL ripoff SHOPPINGESSENTIALS.COM Connecticut Internet
My story is just like others on this site.
I signed up for my credit report for the $1.00 processing fee. 3 weeks later I cancelled the membership, so that I wasn't charged the 29.95. Then I noticed a 14.95 charge on my card. I called and the gentlemen said, yes sir..your mem...
Entity
Categories: On-Line Business
25, Report:
#230485
Posted Date:
Jan 14 2007
AP9* Shopping Essential Fraudulent Ripoff Internet
Ok so I had nevr heard of this company before until I nitices this on my bank statement: PURCHASE
(AP9*SHOPPINGESSENTIAL+ 888-999-0564 CT 12-29-06 869863) ($1.00)
and I was like ummm who is that.
Then one day I called my bank to see how much money I had in my checking account ...
Entity
Categories: Banks