rec.autos.simulators

   The m***of the story is VERIFY any online subscription you purchase.  
We have contacted a 3rd party company that mediates Credit card disputes
and they 'THINK' we should be able to get a refund, but they are not
certain.
    I think I'm gonna start getting a whole slew of visa cards for online
purchases..then cancel the ***s just as soon as the payment goes thru.

dave henrie

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:18:57 -0500, Dave Henrie

Sounds like the typical "unless we are notified within XXX days we will
automatically we will re-new you subscribtion for YOUR convenience."

I believe AOL was the first to invent that cash cow.

You should watch more episodes of "Dragnet"... that darned Joe Friday had an
answer for everything. (Except when I have a problem with GPL or Nascar
X.XXX...damnit, now that I think about it, Joe didn't seem to know anything
about online racing) jk
You're doing probably the best thing you can do...alert everyone you to the
problem and/or scam and Caveat Emptor.
    Which reminds me of the "Brady Bunch " episode when Greg buys the Chevy
and then.......

Nope - Columbia House did it WAY before then.  
"We will automatically send your Selection of the Month unless you return the
card and mark "Don't Send".

Eldred
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Doesn't help in your current plight, but for future reference, in lieu of
the "slew of credit cards".... a reasonable alternative offered by some
credit card providers is an "alias" card number that you can generate for
online purchases.

I know that MBNA offers this, since I've used it for several years...but I
suspect that others offer it, as well.  When you want to make an online
purchase, or any other purchase where you'd prefer that the vendor not have
your "real" credit card number, you go to the card provider's website where
you can generate a new card number with an expiration date and spending
limit of your choosing.  The vendor sees only the "alias" card (with the
expiration date and limits you created), but on your end, it gets billed to
your normal account (with a footnote of some kind indicating that a
"virtual" card was used).  In the case of the runaway Sony billing, for
instance, you could just set the expiration date for some point less than
six months out, and set the credit limit for $100 or so.  When they try to
re-bill, the card won't get authorized.....voila, headache averted.

itazura