One of those pop up windows came up when I was signing off of my Bank Site. It was to get a $500. Gift Card to Lowes for taking a survey. I usually just ignore the surveys, but I decided I would take this one. I thought, they are advertising on my bank site and Lowes is a reputable company so it should be okay. I took the survey and had to order items from 2 companies in A, three items from 3 companies in B, 2 items from 2 companies in C. Against my better judgment I did. I ordered trial items for $1.95 up to $5.95. All had club memberships and you had to cancel by the 10th day or so. I finished and waited a few days before I started to cancel. I received 2 of the items in 2 days, called to cancel the membership, received a return merchandise # and sent the items back. I then called all the places I ordered from and cancelled the memberships, except for two, which I kept. Well, I haven't received any notice or emails regarding the gift card for Lowes and there is no where to call or email about receiving it. I did, however, receive quite a few charges on my credit card from things that were cancelled and things I never heard of. I am disputing these charges, but now I am being told I have to have proof of my cancelling an item which I can't do because it is not something I knew about until I looked at my credit card statement and saw these companies and charges. I called the companies to find out who they were and to get my credit card credited and was told I couldn't. This is when I went to dispute it with my bank. My bank is now telling me that I have to send them proof of the cancellation before the cancellation date. So now I have gotten charged by three companies that I never heard of and I am going to be stuck because I don't have any proof of cancellations. I cancelled by credit card and they issued me a new one because someone was charging items on it, but these charges are not getting removed.
Moral of the story - Don't take the online surveys, I don't care what anyone says, they are a scam and you will end up paying for a lot of items and they are anywhere from $14.00 to 100.00 per item.
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