Buyer's (dis)Advantage

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Are any of you familiar with Buyer's Advantage?

If you aren't, then you're lucky.

Let me explain how their 'business' works.

You suddenly find a charge for 79.99 on your credit card. It comes from somehow having been enrolled in this program called Buyer's Advantage.

Maybe you cashed a check that was really an enrollment form, or maybe you signed somewhere on your credit card bill that you wanted to be enrolled, or maybe they've 'slammed' you the way long distance companies used to enroll you without you knowing.

The end result is that if you don't call them to cancel this plan, you are enrolled in it for life and they will bill you every year to your credit card.

Both my parents are elderly, and while I try to watch what they do financially, but it's not always easy.

Somehow my mother got this charge on her credit card, and I know she didn't willingly enroll in it, but maybe she signed something without knowing it, I really have no immidiate way of finding out, but I'm going to try to find out how she got enrolled in this. What I do know is that I am making a phone call to cancel it tomorrow.

A few years ago, I had to call them and get them to pay back the 79.99 charge from my dad's credit card, so this is my second time at least with this company. I think I got some papers for it from my credit card company, but I am very careful with those.

The upside is that if you cancel this plan, they do retract the bill. The downside is if you don't notice the charge and don't do anything.

I swear, this company (and others like it) ranks lower than telemarketers, and that is way way fucking low.