I remember years ago, I joined a "Free" AVS. And not only did I have to agree to a trial membership to some over-priced crap paysite but they automatically signed you up to another trial on a second over-priced crap paysite. Hell, I didn't even know that I would be charged automatically. The stressed that the card info was just for age verification purposes. I assumed that I would be asked before I was charged for anything.

I had the sense that I was being scammed so I dug into the (very) fine print. I freaked when I finally figured out that I was going to be charged almost $80 for access to a "Free" AVS. None of the email confirmations were of any help on how to cancel but you can bet that they were loaded with plenty of upsell opportunities. Getting this sorted out as a newbie porn surfer was very confusing.

After frantically searching around on the 3rd and final day of the trial, I managed to scrape up a phone number for customer service for one of the 3 parts of the join process. I raged at them on the phone for being such a lousy bunch of scammers and vowed to sue them if I saw any charges on my account. If I had been aware of chargebacks at the time, I would have relished punishing them with that option instead. I'm scarred for life after that awful experience. Even after all of this time it makes me angry thinking about it.

Imo, any webmaster guilty of trying to deceive members with anything other than plain simple language on join pages or tries to crossell to another site deserves the worst they can get. And I put Lee's rebill price increase idea right up there with these other dishonest business practices.