Bill Me Later

BawanaRik · #1 03-19-2013, 11:05 AM

I renewed my membership by giving my credit card info. Now I find myself getting billed from a Bill Me later.

I've had "bill me later" pegged as a scam. Why or how my membership got sent to them is beyond me.

I pay as I go. If everyone were to do that the world would be a better place.

To tell the truth if I could pay my membership cash I would do that.

I guess I have two points here. Watch out for Bill Me later. It seems like a scam designed to get people in debt. that's bad.

And second I'm trying to find out how my TB membership ended up on BML. I gave TB my credit card info in good faith. I've tried to find out from TB what happened with no luck.

Does anyone know?

**john turner** · #2 03-19-2013, 12:06 PM

both of your complaints at the helpdesk have been forwarded to paul, for him to address.

BawanaRik · #3 03-19-2013, 01:45 PM

Thanks

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Originally Posted by john turner

both of your complaints at the helpdesk have been forwarded to paul, for him to address.

MJ5150 · #4 03-19-2013, 04:03 PM

I've noticed when I use Paypal sometimes it defaults to Bill Me Later. A couple times I didn't realize until after I paid. No biggie, I paid it off with the card I was going to use.

-Mike

BawanaRik · #5 03-20-2013, 08:14 PM

It seems that it might be a biggie in the longer term. I wasn't given the option to pay it using any card.

Another reason to provide competition for paypal.

Here's what others think.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/...cel/td-p/58890

MJ5150 · #6 03-20-2013, 10:18 PM

Double check the payment screen the next time it happens. For me, even though it defaulted to BmL, I could click the small edit button and choose the credit card. I doubt your only choice was BmL even if it looked that way.

I read your link. It's people not paying attention to the checkout screen. If a person doesn't read the fine print, they only have themselves to blame. Is Paypal being sneaky? Perhaps, but it's not being forced on anyone.

-Mike

BawanaRik · #7 03-21-2013, 12:14 PM

The term for being sneaky in financial matters if fraud.

I think that anyone who finds themselves staring at a Bill Me Latter screen that they didn't call to cancel the transaction by backing out.

Let the vendor know you don't like being scammed.

fenderhutz · #8 03-21-2013, 12:22 PM

Yeah. Paypal defaults to BillMeLater unless you specify under your preferred payments you don't want it.

Kinda stinks. I ended up with things on credit and I didn't want on credit because I always had my bank account as default and it magically changed.

Gab124 · #9 03-21-2013, 12:41 PM

I had no problems with any of it, after reading all the information when setting up Paypal and BML I made the appropriate choices and have had no problems, and I also just payed my membership like a week ago. As well, I really love the ability to choose from the various options of paypal and 6 month no interest through BML. FWIW, I have not had credit card dept in over ten years but do often take an allowed payoff time with no interest over saving in the bank and then buying. I think the biggest thing in todays world is making sure you read all the details about a particular product or company - somewhere it will let you know the details/choices but it is likely in fine print somewhere.

BawanaRik · #10 03-21-2013, 02:34 PM

There's is no magic. It's called fraud.

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Originally Posted by fenderhutz

Yeah. Paypal defaults to BillMeLater unless you specify under your preferred payments you don't want it.

Kinda stinks. I ended up with things on credit and I didn't want on credit because I always had my bank account as default and it magically changed.