It's a total scam, billing-wise.
You sign up on a non-secure form, a form that was totally broken until over a week after the site was up. I tried and I had to fill it out twice since the fields were in a broken table.
There's no cancel link in the members area or the receipt. Half the links in the members area are no-notification $10 one time charge upgrades.
The terms (only found on the join page) say it's a 30 minute free trial but they bill you $2.95 anyhow. They leave themselves open to charging you a bunch of other 'silver' and 'gold' memberships up to around $200. There is no selection/options to choose which membership you are getting.
Another thing they have on their 'approval' page is a statement saying you will be billed $150 if you charge back. I found that funny enough to screenshot.
When you get into the members area, on an amusing note, the player for the Paris video has a little note that says you have to wait up to 15 minutes since there are 'so many' people in the queue. But the clip plays right away, oops. It was a nice attempt to scam the customer into rebilling though. They even put that the clip is 42 minutes long, right next to the windows media player window that says 2:56 in running time.
I had to find the
www.pzest.com site to cancel my membership, which was at the bottom of about 30 pages of terms. And of course I still was billed.
All you need is a person with a clean tax ID and credit history to get a new merchant account, and whatever fees that bank requires.
So scammers like this are allowed to continue, as long as they can find bulletproof hosts and enough relatives to sign up with the banks for them.
- Titus