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Originally posted by SpaceAce
Dude, you're really stretching on this one. Your analogy is wrong and no matter how many words you use it will continue being wrong. When you agree to pay a flat fee for a service, it's tough noogies for you if you don't use it. It doesn't matter whether or not most people use their cell phones every month. Whether or not they use it, they pay. If you rent a house and go on vacation for a month, you still pay the rent for the month you were gone. If you buy or lease a car and it sits in your garage rotting away, you still have to pay. If you pay $39.95 per month for DSL and never use it, you still pay. It doesn't matter if you never watch your TV, if you have cable you pay for it. Subscribe to the newspaper? You pay whether or not you read it. Have insurance? You pay even if you never need it (yes it is a valid comparison... it's there when you need it, just like a porn site).
As for people understanding their obligation to the cell phone ocmpany, that's total crap. Unless you buried the rebill statement under the join button in a -3 font size, they know they will be paying monthly. Let's just see you try and pull that shit with any of the services I mentioned above. There is no excuse for this behavior. Unless the card was stolen, they owe for every month they were a member. If the card <I>was</I> stolen they should be required to get a new one. No more of this easy scam bullshit.
SpaceAce
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Don't confuse the message with the messenger. I'm not saying I subscribe to the philosophy, but it seems to describe the situation. Perhaps instead of writing, "People shouldn't be paying for services they aren't using" I should have written, "People shouldn't be subscribed to services they aren't using."
I will agree with you that this isn't a problem for most businesses. I disagree with your insurance analogy because simply by having insurance, you're using it. Don't mistake filing a claim for use. I did property management before getting into adult and we never had anyone try to get out of paying rent while they were on vacation. I don't know the cell phone, car rental or cable business but I think you're probably right that they don't suffer from the "I didn't use it, I'm not paying for it syndrome". However, if you're right that everybody who joins a pornsite knows they're going to be rebilled, why does it seem like more of a problem for pornsites than cable companies? Also, if its only people trying to get out of paying a valid bill, why is the percentage of chargebacks from active members so low?