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Odd, I've gone from free-paid-free-paid-free a few times now by following whatever the process was at the time. One thing I suggest for any sites like this is to get one of those "disposable" credit card numbers with a configurable time/balance limit. Login to your online card balance viewer portal and there is usually an option for this. Eliminates a lot of "please please cancel my account" debates...
Odd, I've gone from free-paid-free-paid-free a few times now by following whatever the process was at the time. One thing I suggest for any sites like this is to get one of those "disposable" credit card numbers with a configurable time/balance limit. Login to your online card balance viewer portal and there is usually an option for this. Eliminates a lot of "please please cancel my account" debates...
Any recommendations on 'disposable' credit cards?
When you register, you get all the features. After a month, when you don't upgrade your account, you only see who was on your profile (picture) but can't click on them. You can't even send messages to your friends anymore. You can't search for people, etc...
Sounds like a good YC business: a service that will take care of the hassle of canceling you from other services.
I like it. Somebody contact me (info in profile) if they would like to explore this further.
They need to fix it though.
Sounds like a good YC business: a service that will take care of the hassle of canceling you from other services.
Could call it CancelMe -- For $5 you could cancel any one of a dozen major evil fee spammers. I like it. Somebody contact me (info in profile) if they would like to explore this further.
file complaints with any number of credit card companies and collect statistics on the number of complaints vs. number of successful chargebacks by business, by CC company, and by industry. Sell the statistics. Use a pass-through form to handle the CC transaction, and be excruciatingly honest about how the process works.
Basically, act as an aggregator to get better leverage and provide convenience to individuals.
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Could call it CancelMe -- For $5 you could cancel any one of a dozen major evil fee spammers. I like it. Somebody contact me (info in profile) if they would like to explore this further.
Better idea: ContestIt file complaints with any number of credit card companies and collect statistics on the number of complaints vs. number of successful chargebacks by business, by CC company, and by industry. Sell the statistics. Use a pass-through form to handle the CC transaction, and be excruciatingly honest about how the process works. Basically, act as an aggregator to get better leverage and provide conveni…
I can think of at least five other "cousins" of this idea. No matter how you do it, there's a big imbalance between providers and consumers -- and wherever there is an imbalance, there is economic opportunity.
You're missing that you should just start contesting the charges. You made a good faith effort to downgrade. Chargebacks sound like the only way to get their attention.
I really like LinkedIn. It's been useful to my business a bunch of times. But I've never been tempted to pay for it. What prompted you to upgrade your account?
I signed up in order to send a message to someone outside of my network.
I get a lot of mileage out of the brokered introduction feature.