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No, seriously, if your business model is based on tricking people into paying for something they don’t want and didn’t realize they’re getting charged for (no m

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• iggym001 13y ago
  exactly, a business model that tricks customers is not a business model, it is a scam and fraudulent
  • sbov 13y ago
    It really depends upon the percentages. From my experiences pretty much any website will trick someone, regardless of your intentions otherwise. Despite having to: choose a price, click a "I agree to be charged $<dollar amount> every month" checkbox, and enter their credit card information, a subscription-based website I used to run still got emails from people complaining, saying that they didn't want us to charge them yet.
    • unclebucknasty 13y ago
      It depends more on intent than percentages. If you set out to mislead and only a few people fall for it, then it is still a scam, albeit not a very effective one. On the other hand, if your intentions are honest, but a ton of people are confused, then it is not a scam. It is just poor execution. Of course, if you become aware of this but do nothing to address it, then your intent becomes questionable.
• Killswitch 13y ago
  Agreed. This was a standard practice in adult and it got so out of hand, people signing up for a $2 day trial but their credit cards were getting banged for hundreds of dollars because they didn't scroll down past a whole windows worth of blank space to uncheck that "Sign me up for full memberships to these 3525 other sites too for $39.95/mo" pre-checked cross-sale, causing Visa and Master Card to actually step in and take action. It's straight up scam-tactics.