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Originally posted by Don Soporno
so basically what your saying is that every time you go to the store and purchase somehting with your CC you want to have to watch very closely and make sure the clerk doesnt slip anything else in your bag and charge you for it, cause thats exactly what pre checking a cross sale box is, its sneaking in a sale that you otherwise probably would not have gotten.
Gonna have to agree with Feynman, make a product that makes the surfer WANT to click instead of doing it for them and hopeing they dont notice. Its just shady business practices.
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Feynman and Don Soporno
Thats fine you would think that way I can see your perspective coming from a surfers view i guess . To me these are only upsells for extra profit from what we already lost from surfers who abused the TOS (such as signing up to get a membership d/loading content/movies or not satisfied with what they saw or whatever the case was and then charging it back afterwards) . Every business has their ways of making up for lost profit .
These cross sales are not shady, its not hidden or in small fine print letters they are 100% visible. Yes they are prechecked you can still uncheck them though . There are literally countless amount of corporations in all industries who does similar cross sales to improve their profit margins this is just business ...
Example Columbia House if you are a current customer , they send you these DVDs to your home that you did not order , all you have to do is return it slip it back in the mailbox if you don't want it or else they charge you for it . What about when you go to the restaurant and they ask you if you want a refill for your drink or appetizers etc .... those gets added on to your bill as well do they tell you that its extra $$$ ?? Sometimes they do sometimes they don't is that shady ?? Since there is no actual person asking if you want these items its sort of telling you by giving you the attention of a check mark in a box , since you are planning to buy something anyways would you like blah blah blah ..... ??
You should anyhow read everything before you make a puchase over the internet anyways . Like they say Buyers Beware .
As much as you might think that this is a huge cause of chargebacks you are wrong . The chargeback ratio is not that much different with or without the precheck cross sale . Like I said before , surfers will go out of their way to even chargeback $1.00 for a paid trial , nevertheless something that is 20 ,30 bucks . If this is your mentality then you must think any sponsor programs that don't tell their customers about the recurring fees are all shady business even if its in the TOS or in small fine prints ? If you choose not to read it than its not really the companies fault . As I see it , in the world of internet there is no physical presence of a sales person you gotta do what you gotta do to represent best that you can without performing any ilegal acts .
I myself have encountered alot worst "shady business" than this by longshot as crappy as it may sound with these cross sales you can always have the option to chargeback in the end ....
