24 hr demos

I've been reading around in this side of the forum and saw some worrisome things.

In one thread there was discussion of someone who had done an offer and then cancelled the offer less than 24 hours after starting it, and was put on hold for fraud.

This freaked me out pretty bad 'cause, in the case of the 24 hour demos, if they're not cancelled before the first 24 hours is up, one is charged between $40 and $50USD for the next month of service.

The point of a demo is to find out if you like/enjoy/need a service and if you don't, one should be free to discontinue that service.

For example, I signed up for the driving4dollars demo. My fiance and I are looking at buying me a car this summer, and I thought it'd be kinda fun (and profitable and unique) to get a big skin to stick to it 'cause those can be kinda cute wink
However, after surfing through the site for a while, I discovered that there were very very few advertising companies looking to work with Canadians through the driving4dollars site, and of all the Canadian sites that were there, none of them had clientelle or market for a driver in the Yukon. Clearly, this offer was not for me. So I cancelled, before the end of the 24 hour demo, because there is no point at all in paying $40usd for a month of a service I cannot use.

Now, my question is does that instance fall under the classification of offer fraud? I shouldn't think so, but I had to ask 'cause it's something we ought to know!

Talking about cancellation of offers is not allowed, but I'll answer that question.

I believe in that specific case, it won't be considered fraud, as long as you kept it for more than half of the trial period. I think.

[quotecd674515f5="GateGypsy"]I've been reading around in this side of the forum and saw some worrisome things.

In one thread there was discussion of someone who had done an offer and then cancelled the offer less than 24 hours after starting it, and was put on hold for fraud.

This freaked me out pretty bad 'cause, in the case of the 24 hour demos, if they're not cancelled before the first 24 hours is up, one is charged between $40 and $50USD for the next month of service.

The point of a demo is to find out if you like/enjoy/need a service and if you don't, one should be free to discontinue that service.

For example, I signed up for the driving4dollars demo. My fiance and I are looking at buying me a car this summer, and I thought it'd be kinda fun (and profitable and unique) to get a big skin to stick to it 'cause those can be kinda cute wink
However, after surfing through the site for a while, I discovered that there were very very few advertising companies looking to work with Canadians through the driving4dollars site, and of all the Canadian sites that were there, none of them had clientelle or market for a driver in the Yukon. Clearly, this offer was not for me. So I cancelled, before the end of the 24 hour demo, because there is no point at all in paying $40usd for a month of a service I cannot use.

Now, my question is does that instance fall under the classification of offer fraud? I shouldn't think so, but I had to ask 'cause it's something we ought to know![/quotecd674515f5]

That is not offer fraud, you tried the product and you weren't satisfied.