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LinkedIn is Evil

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Re: LinkedIn is Evil

#41

Post by huhtenberg »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #25
bayareaguy wrote: post #22

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.

> For $5 you could cancel any one of a dozen major evil fee spammers

And for $50 you could cancel the CancelMe service itself :)

Re: LinkedIn is Evil

#42

Post by mlinsey »

Kaizyn wrote: post #38
Harkins wrote: post #20

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.

You know, a person can always CALL on a 'telephone' and speak to someone from LinkedIn in person. After dealing with a short wait period, you will get to talk to someone who will help you, thus avoiding the nastiness in court.

I'm not sure if you really meant this as a reply/rebuttal to the grandparent, but contesting a charge with your credit card company rarely ever results in "nastiness in court". In fact, that's pretty much the one virtue of credit cards over other forms of payment - it's easy for you to contest things and then your credit card company will usually just take care of it for you.

Re: LinkedIn is Evil

#44

Post by whalesalad »

deepster wrote: post #21
brk wrote: post #6

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?

Paypal does this very easily online.

Re: LinkedIn is Evil

#45

Post by fdschoeneman »

Kaizyn wrote: post #38
Harkins wrote: post #20

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.

You know, a person can always CALL on a 'telephone' and speak to someone from LinkedIn in person. After dealing with a short wait period, you will get to talk to someone who will help you, thus avoiding the nastiness in court.

I recommend this method. Give them a chance to do the right thing and let us hear about it after.

Re: LinkedIn is Evil

#48

Post by aneesh »

Harkins wrote: post #20

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.

Yeah, your credit card company can take care of it for you. They'll send LinkedIn a chargeback if you contest the charge, and then someone at LinkedIn will probably take a look, since their money is on the line.

Re: LinkedIn is Evil

#49

Post by DanielBMarkham »

huhtenberg wrote: post #41
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> For $5 you could cancel any one of a dozen major evil fee spammers And for $50 you could cancel the CancelMe service itself :)

Only after going through a dozen menus, calling a Voice System, and copying a special code from your e-mail into a small text box one character at a time : )
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