Shit I Hate About the Internet

Last year I paid for a one year Sitemeter account. Lately, I've been looking at that bill from APRIL OF LAST YEAR and thinking, hey, I wonder where my statement / renewal / anything is for this year because I want to cancel it.

Today, my mail answered that question. Without a statement, without warning, without so much as a fucking 'thankyouverymuch' email my credit card was charged back on April 27 just over $75.

I emailed and asked for a refund of my remaining 11 months.

What are you thinking the chances I'm setting up my very own 'beware' website and submitting it obsessively to every search engine on the planet soon?

$75 is worth quite a bit of my time, I think. $20 bucks, maybe not, but there's a threshold where you just can't be fucking with people, yanno?

I guess we'll have to wait and see. But if you've done the same so you can get all those really good stats - I'd check your first bill date and email them well before so you don't get screwed as well, considering there was no mention in any of the information and documentation of an automatically recurring charge.

Comments

[Jen, also]

Hell, I don't pay for mine. And for as little as I look at it these days, it's a good thing. What do you get for your money?

[The Captain of This Boat]

...something that it seemed important I had at the time? Other than a credit card with space on it?

It did give me more stats and full IP addresses (which served only to FUEL MY PARANOIA).

hmmph. shut up, you.

Man, my next post made me laugh a lot though.

[Drunken Brit with kidney pains]

You get full IP addresses? hmm. I've been known to use www.dnsstuff.com to do a bit of visitor 'research' from time to time :-)

[james]

that's why i paid them with PayPal.

well, that and the whole "you don't deserve a credit card, bitch" thing...

[Vanessa]

Statcounter gives you full IP addresses and all sorts of other stuff for free. I can usually tell where people live and work from it without any further clicks or whois info...