2CheckOut.com - BEWARE !
 

I went to TemplateMonster.com just the other day to purchase a template and they have several payment options there including 2CheckOut.com.
I bought from them before several times and everything was nice and smooth.
I paid trough 2checkout.com and got my template. I used my business card which has high credit line and there never ever have been any problems.

Next day I got a call from TemplateMonster.com saying my payment was cancelled by 2CheckOut.com due to fraud.
The guy from TemplateMonster.com didn't even ask for me to resubmit the payment, he sounded like he is use to chargebacks.

As 2checkout.com doesn?t provide support on weekends, I had to wait until today (Monday) to call them and to find out.


In mean time, I have completed one of my sites that offers informational service on how to share files over the internet, how to avoid viruses, gives ratings to different file sharing programs, teaches how to convert mp3 into WAV files etc.

It's important to note that there are multiple sites of the same kind as mine that are using 2checkout.com to process payments.
And this is basically what made me subscribe to 2checkout.com - I saw it on the same kind websites as mine. Otherwise I will never ever sign up to sites like 2chekout.com as their design and $49 sign up fee makes their site look like a scam.

Well, I signed up for a merchant account, set up the site, which was hard to do because I found 2ckeckout.com system very poorly set up and far from 'user friendly' and started promoting my new site, redirected some of my domains to it.

After 12 hours, there were 2 transaction processed totaling $69.90 in sales.
I get an email from 2checkout.com stating that 1 of 2 transaction was placed on hold due to fraud and they have to check it manually. Then in 30 minutes they emailed me saying they will not cancel the transaction because there is nothing wrong with it.

In the next 30 minutes I noticed that I cannot login to my 2checkout.com account and went to see if my site works fine and no, my site was no longer processing any transaction and 'check out' system returned some errors. Some time after I received an email from 2CheckOut.com containing 3 typographical errors in one sentence, saying they shut down my account.
Here is it:

Dear Merchant,

The following comment was added by the 2CheckOut Team,

I\ 'm sorry however,we no longer support this service. Account closed,should receive refund within 4 to 7 business days

[email protected]

As you can see no explanation was given whatsoever. I emailed them back but did not receive a reply.

I waited till today so i can call them and find out what's wrong with them.
I found out the fallowing:

My payment to TemplateMonster.com was canceled and it is now on it's way back to my bank. No further action of any kind will be taken.

My merchant account was cancelled because they decided that they don't process payments for websites that offer file sharing service, when in fact my site is legal and don't offer any service except informational. They don't care about the fact that they process transaction for multiple sites of the same kind either.
Furthermore, 2 sales that my site generated are getting cancelled by 2checkout.com.

I don't recall me receiving such a mistreatment during my entire business practice.
Moreover, they caused me over $300 in losses in 8 hours including the loss of potential revenue by canceling the service on selective basis. I?m thinking of contacting my local attorney to see if legal action is appropriate.

I can only imagine what loss they are causing to TemplateMonster.COM, when my $43 payment is being cancelled even though there is nothing wrong with the transaction and I even call them to confirm my authorization.


As i was amazed of this kind of non since and mistreatment, I went ahead and checked is
2checkoutsucks.com is available? Taken
2cosucks.com Taken by 2checkout.com - ha! These crooks are aware of their poor performance and had to register their all companynamesucks.com domain :laugh:
I had to be creative and I have registered 2cos.com which stands for 2 check out sucks. There will go my new sebsite.

2CheckOut.com - Eww ..!

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i bought tm3 through 2checkout, did the payment plan 4 payments of 99$ they billed me 6 times, i tried contacting them and they told me I was cracy basically and said that such and such charge on some date never processed... when in fact it was according to my bank statement

so 2checkout will be having a few chargebacks credited to their account real soon, hope it doesn't fuck ty

there was some 2checkout.com bill on my creditcard for like 500$ and i didn't know what it was.. so i tried to call like 8 times and emailed them 20 + times and never got no where.. half the time it was an answering machine and it would say to leave a message and beep right after it said that so you couldn't even leave a message.. i ended up charging it back duno if it was important or not :feels-hot

buying from templatemonster isn't the best ideea, they're stealing all the images they're using (they're ukrainians after all).

gettyimages (the biggest online stock images supplier) are sueing them... also there are people that bought "exclusive" templates and the templates they bought appeared on tm's list few days after...

use paypal?

Paypal only accepts payments from some countries, so it's not really an good option. However you know that that is a big company.

I dunno what 2checkout.com is, if I were to guess, I would guess it's a bunch of crooks running some small business from a basement. I feel unsafe now when they have my banking information.

Definitely something funky going down!:feels-hot

Bump for a company who cancels your account by sending a notice that contains more errors than words.
:winkwink:

I've been using em for a while but they do suck ass.

Only reason I've stuck until now is because of the low
processing fees and they pretty much accept payments from
everywhere.

I had a lot of legit transactions canceled.

The most fucked up thing about them is that it's impossible
to check stats during the day. The stats part of the site always
times out or gives a fucking error. i had to wait till 11pm to
login and check how much money i've got!

fucking crooks... :ak47:

Posted on another forum:

"The better design they have now was completed after they held a public contest - $1000 prize for the best redesign of their site. That does not sound like a professional merchant account service..."


Is it the company you want to handle your billing and the ompany you want to have your bank information ? :winkwink:

LMFAOLOLRMAOIDGFAYIOGTEI...

yeah 2checkout is fucked up i bought some traffic from some website and they were the one processing for them haven't heard from the guys for over a week so i called 2checkout and they said i would get a refund that was 2 months ago the transaction is still pending on my cc

DW

I don't understand why people using them when they cancel legit transaction. They are causing losses more than they cost.

2FuckOut.com