04-22-2003, 09:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Montreal, Quebec. ICQ: 214702014
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Originally posted by Rich J.
Yeah I worked there for years... as far as legal issues, I wasn't involved in any of that and am not really at liberty to discuss it.
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After all this time, you're still not allowed to talk about it? There's a gag order? Crazyness!
You went from pushing a 18c per click program to a 6c per click program 
The Wired article you posted above was really good, as well as this one:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,12412,00.html
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Another XPics customer, a software engineer from Los Gatos, California, hasn't been as lucky.
XPics' $9.95 monthly charges are still mounting up on his bill, nearly a year after ending his "free" trial. Termination requests by Web, email, and phone have been ignored, he says. Worse, he says, another company -- an Internet billing firm called Netfill, which has its own network of adult sites at addresses like Netfraud.com -- began charging him $19.95 a month soon after he signed on with XPics. A disclaimer on the XPics site says that the two companies are not related. The engineer is considering canceling his credit card.
He partly blames his situation on his own cursory reading of XPics' terms and conditions page, which spells out the process of automatic escalation from a free trial to a paying membership and the labyrinthine termination process:
Free memberships will renew at a regular rate of $19.95 at the end of 30 days.... The cancellation process is a two-step process in which members first must view a series of "sales" pages. On the final page, XPics may, at XPics' sole discretion, provide the member with an upgraded membership instead of canceling the member. If such an upgrade is effected, the member will then not be canceled at that time. The member will be required to wait an additional 72 hours, during which time he may continue to enjoy his membership. At any time after 72 hours, the member may then enter the cancellation process, and after viewing another series of "sales" pages, the member can then cancel his membership....
"It says right there, deep in the bowels of the fine print, that there's no way out," the engineer reflects ruefully.
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