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Ohio Charges AOL, Compuserve With Deception

Posted by timothy on from the you-don't-say dept.

Polyploid Pimp writes "The Buckeye State has filed a complaint against AOL and its CompuServe subsidiary. Ohio claims that AOL is deceiving consumers with the ever familiar "Free Trial" cds, as both ISPs charged consumer's credit cards/bank accounts after cancelling the "free" service. The state is seeking $25,000 for each alleged violation plus refunds for the consumers. Check it out at The Register and the official press release."

4 of 29 comments (clear)

  1. hmmm by Speedy8 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So will the states get the money or the customers that wehre decieved?

  2. In other news by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ohio's cable system, operated by Time Warner, apparently went down last night for unknown reasons...

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  3. Re:It's about time this happened. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    My $19.95 was nothing in the great scheme of things. However, multiplied by X number of thousands of accounts cancelled in any given month, that $19.95 could balloon into a floating, interest free chunk of capital of immense proportions, available to use for 30 days. Even if not used, the interest off of such amounts wouldn't be trivial either.
    But what makes you think it was company policy vs rogue managers pocketing the difference themselves?
  4. Signed up for AOL once by jgoemat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I signed up for AOL once, CompUSA was giving $200 off the laptop I was buying for trying out AOL for 30 days, no-risk. I think I was a little late cancelling (I forgot) and was charged once, but when they saw I hadn't even signed into the service once they credited my card back.