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Old 07-31-2005, 04:49 PM  
Mako
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Originally Posted by venus
lots of things used to be wide spread at the "top", a few years ago there were some bigger sites then you listed, I think the FTC judgement against them kinda cut into some of their profits. If it does not seem legit its probably not. I think prechecking additional memberships may have been on the judgement against those other sites a few years ago, not positive, but I think it was.

You can try anything you want, just make sure your not wrong or can handle the consequences that will eventually come down.
It's all about transaction counts. If you're doing enough valid non-chargeback type transactions each day (i.e. cheap paid trials) then you can absorb just about anything and still not hit the magic 1% level. Which is why the biggies listed here can do it without a problem. Hell Top Bucks even has two pre-checked at the moment, some poor sons a bitches get dinged with a nice $100 rebill after the 3-Day trials recur I'd imagine...yeah that's good for the industry.

Since I started this thread I've been playing with cross-sells being pre-checked and the only surfers who are leaving them in place are non-English speaking. I'm going to assume it's because they probably don't know to un-check them, which brings up an entirely different ethical discussion...
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