Bargain Network will pop up if you search for, as an example, cars.
The online advertisement suggests they have $500 cars, seized property, etc. Their bait is a $1 fee and a 7 day free trial which reeled me in.
I did not need 7 days to realize that:
1. They have nothing that you can't get for free from HUD (seized property), AUTOTRADER (vehicles), or the phonebook (auction sites).
2. There is a thinly veiled con game going on with the various pages that pop up: there's Bargain Network Motors, there's Pricestore, there's a free $25 Wal-Mart gift card for joining something else, etc. This goes on for some time.
I clicked 'no thanks' to everything, looked at cars I'd already seen elsewhere, and 6 days later called in and cancelled.
Four days after that, my credit card was billed.
The phone # associated with the company on my credit card statement was: 800-333-1915.
I called in, gave them the cancellation #, the date I had called - clearly within the 7 day free trial - and the original operator's #, at which time the current operator had the unmitigated GALL to say, 'oh, you cancelled Priceline.'
I said I never JOINED Priceline. I only joined Bargain Network Motors.
I asked if she was insinuating that that it was $39.80 for EVERY associated company.
She gave me a cancellation # and asked if there was anything else?
Yes, who's clearing the charge off my credit card.
She put me on hold for a supervisor until my phone died.
At which time I compared the FIRST cancellation number with the number just given me: THEY WERE THE SAME NUMBER.
Within minutes I received an email confirming my cancellation - AS OF TODAY'S DATE.
Not the original date.
Unfortunately for them, I will next contact the BBB online and every single other agency possible before the sun sets - and into the future.
DO NOT USE BARGAIN NETWORK - you CAN find all these things online free & you will be charged for something because you called two cubicles over and not the 'other' phone number.
Susan
Hayward, California
U.S.A.
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