Forum Subject: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2008/05/16 02:04am
By: Anonymous (firebird)

Go to Walgreens or most any other store and buy a prepaid credit card. I thing they make them in both visa and mastercard.

I have not really checked this out so I might be wrong so let me know.

But if it is like my prepaid cell phone, just buy an amount sufficent for whatever time length you want to intially be on a dating site.

Use this card like you would a normal non-prepaid card.

And when this card expires, if you do not want to renew your membership, whne the date site ignores your request to not renew your membership and tries to charge your card, don't add funds to the prepaid card and the dating site will not be able to auto renew.

I have yet to see this idea mentioned.

But DO chose NOT to auto renew. The site will probably ignore your request. By using the prepaid credit card, you are not going to get ripped off if the card has no funds in it And you did chose not to auto renew. .

What do you think about this idea?

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2011/01/13 12:55pm
By: Anonymous (slipt70)

it wont work they dont allow pre-paids, I checked out like 4 diff ones

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2011/01/13 03:09pm
By: Anonymous (p)

Best way round it is to pay by pay by paypal then just cancel through paypal, mobile phone is another way which you can cancel by sending a "STOP" text, or just contact your bank and get the card cancelled if you think you are being scammed.

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2011/07/02 06:08am
By: S.Dave

I'm quite confused about how to beat the credit card auto renewal scam. Does anyone can support this issue??? Thanks in advance.

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2017/11/09 05:31pm
By: Anonymous (Glen)

You can get a regular credit card, but keep a limited amount in it for dating site charges. When you cancel the dating site, you can cancel the card, or remove most funds from it. Also, if you pay with PayPal, you can cancel the payments, and I don't think the dating site can do anything about it. It is a shame that most dating sites, who are already making gobs of money, have to be so greedy that they engage in the practice of making it hard to cancel, and charging customers even after they do. They probably loose more money from the bad PR than they make from the practice, and it's just plain unethical. Why the government does not step in to prevent them from doing it is also a shame. That even sites like eHarmony, which claims to have a Christian foundation, makes it hard to cancel, is particularly disgusting. By the way, if you do want to join there at the lowest price, here's how. Do a trial, and cancel (being sure to pay a safe way). You'll soon get many emails with discount offers. Don't bite on the first one. They will keep getting lower and lower, and bottom out (at least they did with me) at about 90% discount, or $6/mo. The thing I don't like about eH is that their supposedly great matching sucks, and you can't search for your own matches. However, the user base is generally a littler higher class with fewer scammers and jerks, because most people pay quite a bit for membership.

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2017/11/10 04:15am
By: Anonymous (jim)

i did manage to pay for 3 days to trial fling com by using a phone payment only to find it was a scam .so no further losses ensued.. now i would only use a 1 off payment like a cheque as none of them can be trusted with your card details ,,all unscrupulous fraudsters..

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2017/11/10 04:41am
By: Anonymous (jim)

i would not rely on using paypal as many date sites wont accept paypal as they know it can be challenged and reversed thus eroding their scam capabilities..to continue auto payments

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2018/02/09 07:54am
By: Anonymous (eric)

either dont give it in the 1st place or cancel card right away.its not rocket science

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2019/12/18 10:42pm
By: Anonymous (TS)

My credit card has a lock feature on the app. When its locked nothing can be charged against the card. That's how I beat the auto-renew feature.

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2019/12/19 09:42am
By: Anonymous (al)

they will still hit you with the threats of debt collectors tho even tho they cant do such a thing as they need to get a court order first before sending in the heavys ..but they will try it month after months to scare you into paying up some money ..Be2 is hard to get rid of as they use blackmail to scare subscribers

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2019/12/19 10:46pm
By: Anonymous (TS)

If they can't charge your credit card then the subscription or membership should automatically be cancelled if u go by common sense.

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2021/02/21 12:05pm
By: Anonymous (luvmy911)

You just have to have online banking and when you sign up to a site they say is free for 2 days then you start auto renew, so before those 2 days are up you go to your settings on the site itself and click off on the Auto Renew in settings. then go to your online banking and click on the name of the account you signed up to in online banking and paste that on a browser (will be a dot com name) it will take you to the sites billing agent and you give them the information that is posted in your online statement the fake company and its dot com and the amount they took from your account and they send back your money within 7 business days... I had fraud people investigate from my bank. The bank thought I was doing something illegal from these sites and started investigating myself and my account when I told them I was on these dating sites. I thought the site was frauding me but in fact its holding your money before you end the free days you have with them, they give you your money back because you stopped payment before the time was up on the free days you signed up for. and that is how I learned all this because they bite you if you don't know what your doing on these sites... If I didn't have online banking I would have been taken for easy grand, and probably more. But knowing how to use online banking and these sites I have been getting banged a lot for free these days by some awfully nice girls in my area.. Works like a hot damn once you know what you are doing you beat the sites And you beat the calling the bank to stop payment or to close your visa all the time. the embarrassment was way over top. When you know what is going on with the way the sites work its a Win Win and you get the girls as well. Would love to hear if anyone has tried it like I have and is able to be banging hot girls in there area as well?

Re: How to beat the credit card auto renewal scam

Posted on: 2021/02/24 08:02am
By: Anonymous (joe)

its not possible as theyre born to scam to make millions