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By Will Sturgeon

Published: Wednesday 07 January 2004


Name

Anonymous


Location

Florida


Occupation

massage therapist


Comment

I don't mind the questionable charity site so much - after all I am not paying for it, I click only, and if there is some amount of money that goes towards a cause I like it's okay by me. My problem started when I clicked on one of the banners to buy something. This is also supposed to create some charitable donation and I liked the stuff they had. So, I picked a couple of things, put in my credit card information and it was refused. Oh well, I tried a couple of changes (did I really have the right address?) but it didn't work. So, since I didn't want to spend the day trying to buy a pair of charitable socks I decided to let it go. Well, couple of days later I checked my bank statement and they had taken out the money. I got a little nervous, called customer service and the lady told me that they had initially refused the card, then contacted the bank and were told that refusing was wrong and they went ahead and allowed the purchase - sounds weird? Well, little surprise, this was a couple of weeks ago, I haven't seen my purchase, I don't have my money, I never got an order confirmation and I think I'll close that account before more money disappears. And this was the last time I wasted my time with internet "charity".



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