At the risk of sounding stupid, I have to share this.
When you download WinAmp you get an offer of 50 free mp3’s from emusic.com.
I took the offer and registered with eMusic and downloaded the 50 mp3’s in May of 2005, a long time ago.
I received an email with my registration details and haven’t heard anything from them since.
The other say I checked my balance on my bank account and noticed that I had done a credit card purchase at eMusic.com.
I knew that I hadn’t done that, I haven’t even been to the site since I downloaded the free music in May/June of 2005.
So I checked my history and noticed that eMusic.com had been taking money every month since May of 2005, $9.99 a month for 17 months. For those of you don’t want to do the math it’s $169.83 (1 254,96 SEK at current rate) total.
I don’t know how I missed it but I had no idea that they where gonna start a subscription and charge me every month.
What’s even worse is that I haven’t received an email from them since July of 2005, not a word, not “we have noticed that you haven’t used your subscription for a while”, nothing.
To make it even more worse is that if you don’t use up your downloads they disappear at the end of the month, this alone should warrant an email warning.
A short “You have 40 songs left to download this month, if you don’t use up your downloads they will be reset at the the end of the month.” would have been nice and I could have canceled my account $150 ago.
They have been caching in and keeping quite, I doubt that I am the only one who fell for this deception. Cause that’s what I think it is, pure deception.
Fuckin’ arses, pirates of the web…
I hope this reaches someone else who can cancel their account in time, save someone else a lot of money cause I don’t imagine I’ll get mine back.