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'No Thanks' Not Good Enough For AOL Promos
boio writes: "AOL users are suing AOL over its advertising practices, claiming that they were charged for products that they never requested. Apparently these users say they clicked the 'no thanks' button, but still received the advertised products. Of course, we must wonder if these people truly clicked no thanks ...they are using AOL after all, and maybe they had a secret yearning for that Torreador Bed-in-a-Bag ;)."
I bet all the users that are suing are from Florida too.
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Apparently these users say they clicked the 'no thanks' button, but still received the advertised products.
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I have a funny feeling that, as evil as AOL is, they wouldn't go THIS far.
I have another funny feeling that the individuals listed in the lawsuit all live in Palm Beach, Volusia, Broward, and Miami-Dade counties in Florida
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It's not just this that they are getting charged extra for. According to this article (from a little while ago), there is a class action lawsuit against them for switching their users to long distance numbers when they are out of normal numbers, even when the users claim they didn't change anything. Either AOL has dumb users, dumb workers, or both, because stuff like this keeps happening and AOL and the users blame each other.
I am so shocked and appalled. I always thought of AOL as an honourable ISP, and that they'd never stoop to doing something like this. My entire world view has been shaken. Tsk...
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Which is which?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
AOL: Do you want to buy these wonderfully carved toothpicks for $9.95?
Helpless Victim:No.
AOL: Okay, I'll place that order. It's Opposite Day!
Helpless Victim:Wait! Yes. I want to buy the toothpicks.
AOL: Ok, I'll place that order.
*5 weeks later*
A UPS guy brings a box of toothpicks to HV's home.
Helpless Victim: What the hell...
Back in the era when floppy disks cost a buck or so apiece, AOL's were the best quality diskettes you could get. So every time we ran out, we'd call AOL and complain that we couldn't find any AOL disks. They'd dutifully take our address, and we'd get several "officially blank" diskettes in the mail every month.
Now that their CDs come in those nifty metal containers and handy DVD cases, I am considering another assault on their mailing list. Why buy CDROM jewelcases and mailers when AOL so kindly provides an excellent alternative??
And the CDs (now printed in pretty colours!) work well as bird and vermin chasers, too.
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