Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Easy Savers my eye
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So there I was, casually checking on my checking account (heh), just to make sure everything was okay. I (foolishly) barely glanced at the numbers because nothing looked awry. Somehow a hold charge for 14.95, posted today to something called "Easy Saver" caught my eye and since I knew I hadn't bought anything at all today, I frowned. Then I opened another I.E. window and typed "Easy Saver" in the URL bar and found a slightly dizzying array of complaints and diatribes (here and here being just some examples).
It turns out that Easy Saver is a company that offers discounts on some dining, shopping and credit card services. I had never replied to any email from them nor consciously signed up for any service of theirs since I wouldn't be interested.
Pro-Flowers is a flower delivery service like FTD, if a little snazzier, and I have ordered flowers from Pro-Flowers many times - their arrangements are wonderful and what is delivered is often even lovelier than it seems onscreen.
Apparently Easy Saver is associated with Pro-Flowers. If you even *look* at the Easy Saver offer when you are checking out, apparently you more or less are (however inadvertently) signing up for their services.
Thanks to the Internet complaints, I did what you must do if you get snagged by this scheme: call 800-355-1837 (Easy Saver's). They must have had to do this over and over and over and over who knows how many times because all the nice woman did was ask my name and zip code before she confirmed my email address (scary to hear someone tell you your own address and phone number) and promise/agree to credit my account for the six months (yikes!) they'd charged me for so far. Scary. And remiss of me that I hadn't noticed the charge before but better late than never, right?!
Note to self: call or write Pro-flowers.com and complain about their highly questionable association with a company that is disingenuous at best, deliberately deceptive and a thief at worst. Since nearly five hundred people posted online that they were caught in this, heaven knows how many people it really has been. Does Pro-Flowers understand about ill-gotten gains, I wonder?
It turns out that Easy Saver is a company that offers discounts on some dining, shopping and credit card services. I had never replied to any email from them nor consciously signed up for any service of theirs since I wouldn't be interested.
Pro-Flowers is a flower delivery service like FTD, if a little snazzier, and I have ordered flowers from Pro-Flowers many times - their arrangements are wonderful and what is delivered is often even lovelier than it seems onscreen.
Apparently Easy Saver is associated with Pro-Flowers. If you even *look* at the Easy Saver offer when you are checking out, apparently you more or less are (however inadvertently) signing up for their services.
Thanks to the Internet complaints, I did what you must do if you get snagged by this scheme: call 800-355-1837 (Easy Saver's). They must have had to do this over and over and over and over who knows how many times because all the nice woman did was ask my name and zip code before she confirmed my email address (scary to hear someone tell you your own address and phone number) and promise/agree to credit my account for the six months (yikes!) they'd charged me for so far. Scary. And remiss of me that I hadn't noticed the charge before but better late than never, right?!
Note to self: call or write Pro-flowers.com and complain about their highly questionable association with a company that is disingenuous at best, deliberately deceptive and a thief at worst. Since nearly five hundred people posted online that they were caught in this, heaven knows how many people it really has been. Does Pro-Flowers understand about ill-gotten gains, I wonder?
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