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Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by jenscow »

chimen wrote: post #30

2 months ago I signed up for a 30 day trial to search for people to hire and then 140 eu/mo if I decide to continue using it. Of course I forgot to stop it (they were pretty quiet also) and they charged me 1400+ eu for a full year because...why not - no refunds (that's what their page says). I know, I know...should have read the whole shebang. Lost 1400 euros for something I didn't really use. I was about to pay for…

I see how they're deadly silent during the trial, but as soon as you cancel you're bombarded with emails nagging to return.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by rabboRubble »

chimen wrote: post #30

2 months ago I signed up for a 30 day trial to search for people to hire and then 140 eu/mo if I decide to continue using it. Of course I forgot to stop it (they were pretty quiet also) and they charged me 1400+ eu for a full year because...why not - no refunds (that's what their page says). I know, I know...should have read the whole shebang. Lost 1400 euros for something I didn't really use. I was about to pay for…

My credit card company offers a way to generate a one-time credit card number so that I can safely trial a service and have the monthly charges stop after one month. If I want to continue the service, I can provide my real static credit card number.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by IAmGraydon »

crazy2be wrote: post #67
IAmGraydon wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shady? You signed up for a trial, didn't ready the terms, didn't cancel, and they charged you as they said they would. How is that shady? They did exactly what they said they would. When you sign up for the free trial, it literally says right there on the checkout page "Total after free trial: ($99.95 x 12 months) $1,199.40". Beyond that, they email you 7 days before the trial ends to warn you.

the shady part was that they charged him for a full year after he forgot to cancel, despite quoting the price on a monthly basis when he signed up. (Also, "free" auto-renew trials like this without refunds are by themselves shady imo)

He says they didn't quote him the yearly price. All you have to do is go through the beginning of their trial signup process to see that they clearly disclose it in a completely open and visible way.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by ChuckMcM »

There seems to be a relationship between 'not logged in' and 'not a LinkedIn user'. I have found sometimes that a profile isn't visible (asks me to log in) because at one time I was logged in. Switching to an incognito window "fixed" it.

That said, I too find that people use LinkedIn in different ways, I try to only link with people whom I know personally, ideally have worked with, and know something about me. I do occasionally get random invites (which I assume is someone trying to reach me) which I will accept and add a calendar entry to remove in 2 weeks. Then if I haven't heard anything from them for 2 weeks I know it was just random 'contacts' spamming or 'people you might want to link with' spamming.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by spraak »

rabboRubble wrote: post #112
chimen wrote: post #30

2 months ago I signed up for a 30 day trial to search for people to hire and then 140 eu/mo if I decide to continue using it. Of course I forgot to stop it (they were pretty quiet also) and they charged me 1400+ eu for a full year because...why not - no refunds (that's what their page says). I know, I know...should have read the whole shebang. Lost 1400 euros for something I didn't really use. I was about to pay for…

My credit card company offers a way to generate a one-time credit card number so that I can safely trial a service and have the monthly charges stop after one month. If I want to continue the service, I can provide my real static credit card number.

That's super cool, I'd never heard of that. I'd only known of the benefit of some cryptocurrencies bringing that feature

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by ddebernardy »

rabboRubble wrote: post #112
chimen wrote: post #30

2 months ago I signed up for a 30 day trial to search for people to hire and then 140 eu/mo if I decide to continue using it. Of course I forgot to stop it (they were pretty quiet also) and they charged me 1400+ eu for a full year because...why not - no refunds (that's what their page says). I know, I know...should have read the whole shebang. Lost 1400 euros for something I didn't really use. I was about to pay for…

My credit card company offers a way to generate a one-time credit card number so that I can safely trial a service and have the monthly charges stop after one month. If I want to continue the service, I can provide my real static credit card number.

That's awesome, but it unfortunately won't help when a company charges for a full year in advance like LinkedIn does.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by inferiorhuman »

ddebernardy wrote: post #116
rabboRubble wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My credit card company offers a way to generate a one-time credit card number so that I can safely trial a service and have the monthly charges stop after one month. If I want to continue the service, I can provide my real static credit card number.

That's awesome, but it unfortunately won't help when a company charges for a full year in advance like LinkedIn does.

Sure it can. The Bank of America system lets you set an upper credit limit on the temporary numbers. While BofA can ignore it at their discretion, if you set the limit at around $100 I suspect they'd deny a $1400 charge.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by yeukhon »

robinhood wrote: post #72
wslh wrote: post #19

I always think about LinkedIn as a "light scam". LinkedIn always pretended to help businesses and employees but indeed they don't do anything special to match people except for recruiters, which at the end it is enough with a search. To put it straight, it is not a Tinder for business. I tried many paid services like Ads, Premium, and API. They are subpar. I recruit better via Reddit than via LinkedIn, you can post i…

Let's give the power back to users. Please someone create an open source alternative, where everyone will contribute to do something good . Wait. That was just a dream.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by Ixio »

ddebernardy wrote: post #116
rabboRubble wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My credit card company offers a way to generate a one-time credit card number so that I can safely trial a service and have the monthly charges stop after one month. If I want to continue the service, I can provide my real static credit card number.

That's awesome, but it unfortunately won't help when a company charges for a full year in advance like LinkedIn does.

Mine also let's you chose a maximum amount that can be charged to the temporary card number. I usually add 10% or 20% extra to the expected amount so that unexpected taxes or shipping costs don't block the whole transaction.

I really love the feeling of safety that I get from chosing the max amount, being sure that I won't be overcharged.

Re: LinkedIn is ignoring user settings

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Post by jraby3 »

chimen wrote: post #30

2 months ago I signed up for a 30 day trial to search for people to hire and then 140 eu/mo if I decide to continue using it. Of course I forgot to stop it (they were pretty quiet also) and they charged me 1400+ eu for a full year because...why not - no refunds (that's what their page says). I know, I know...should have read the whole shebang. Lost 1400 euros for something I didn't really use. I was about to pay for…

Was thinking of using them to hire for my company and you just talked me out of it.
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