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Comment on LinkedIn is Greedy by Networking with LinkedIn « die umlaut

Networking with LinkedIn « die umlaut — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:35:45 +0000

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Comment on LinkedIn is Greedy by reddy

reddy — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:59:11 +0000

Contract terms has you notify us by “…telephone or email…”.

They don’t offer phone support. Isn’t that a violation of contract? I think this has to be reported to BBB or some other agency. I would like to join a law suit against this company.

Comment on LinkedIn is Greedy by Victoria Fenner

Victoria Fenner — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 11:22:46 +0000

Does anybody have an email address for a real person at LinkedIn Customer Service? I want to send through my own email so I have a record that the request was made … cancelling through the LinkedIn site doesn’t give me a record … too easy for t he record to disappear. I want the documentation in case I have to fight with them over this …

Comment on LinkedIn is Greedy by Liz

Liz — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:51:43 +0000

It’s definitely pretty fishy. I initially emailed Customer Service 7 days before my free trial expired to cancel my account, never heard back! I did get an email from someone else in Linkedin saying my credit card had been declined and my premier account would expire in five days (a bad virus take hold of my laptop a few days ago and had to change all my bank accounts).

Very strange…

Comment on LinkedIn is Greedy by DR

DR — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:22:19 +0000

Hi JC,

I just had exactly the same experience with LinkedIn. Your blog is brilliant as I couldn’t find a way to cancel at all from LinkedIn.

It may also help in a dispute with LI if you’re in the UK, they will be covered by the Distance Selling regulations – whereby you get a 7 day “cooling off” period to cancel.

I received no email from LI, no correspondence or confirmation that the subscription had started (Free Trial).

This is a very unprofessional example of sharp practice from a professional social networking site.

Thanks for your help,

Comment on Classmates.com automatic renewal scam by Bill

Bill — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:57:39 +0000

To be fair, there were very few websites like classmates.com when it started up in the late ’90s. I signed up as a gold member in 1998, having fully read the TOS and completely accepting the annual $39 charge (which was not in small print back then). With it, I was able to keep in touch with people, and someone from my graduating class used it to organize a reunion. Before the arrival of myspace and facebook, classmates.com was THE place to find friends. (A few minor sites, like gradfinder.com and reunion.com, offered similar services, with paid membership offering more perks.) The site is becoming irrelevant now, and I ended my subscription three years ago. Still, classmates.com was useful during the height of its popularity. Calling it a scam would be highly inaccurate.

Comment on Classmates.com automatic renewal scam by JC Cameron

JC Cameron — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:12:51 +0000

Hi Shelly, sorry to hear about your bad experience as well. I was fortunate that the credit did stick. These are the acts of a desperate company going down fighting (illegally I might add) against a tide of change as facebook becomes the defacto way of connecting with friends (both new and old).

Comment on Classmates.com automatic renewal scam by shelley

shelley — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:58:06 +0000

JC….just wondering if the credit from your credit card stuck? My credit card issued me a credit, but classmates came back and refused, stating I did sign up. This is the 3rd year in a row, I even went in and changed from automatic renewal to manual…and it happens again? I have found 1000′s of people this has happened to. This company needs to go. This time I cancelled my credit card so it can’t happen again!

Comment on Time to Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome by John Graham

John Graham — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:08:47 +0000

You are right on. It will never supplant Semper Fi, but Semper Fi is passive, I-R-O is a plan for action.

[signed] A USN Viet vet and SDVOSB who has always admired Marines (in their place).

Comment on LinkedIn is Greedy by JC Cameron

JC Cameron — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:47:15 +0000

Hi Will, hopefully it helps. I found that if you get no satisifaction from the service provider, most credit card companies will actually remove it from your bill (which is what I had to do with Classmates.com).