Classmates.com Reviews

Was charged a fee for a membership renewal that I never agreed to. In addition, the company claims that it is stated in the terms of their contract that automatic renewal is part of agreeing to membership. This is FALSE.

I have been charges $59 for a membership renewal that I was not notified about. I would like to cancel, but it is impossible to get in touch with Classmates.com.

When I signed up for Classmates.com there was a statement saying that this would ONLY be for 3 months and that the membership would expire after. My credit card is now being charged a fee that I didn't agree to. I have found a couple of addresses for Classmates: 2001 Lind Ave. SW, Suite 500 Renton, WA 98055 1100 Oakesdale Ave SW Renton, WA 98055 Phone: 425-917-5000/425-917-4927 425-917-4933 Fax:425-255-8382.

Classmates.com billed me automatically for a charge that I did not authorize. The offenses are that they 1) did not warm me of the forthcoming charge and 2) they did not provide contact information to dispute/discuss the charge. There is only a voice mail that states a NO REFUND policy. This is a violation of their agreement with Visa; "no refund policies" are not valid, especially for online services, and more so for automated recurring charges.

Classmates.com makes it impossible for you to unsubscribe to their Emails. And each Email they send you has a different alternate address so you cannot block their Emails. This must be illegal.

I signed up for a membership last year and had no intention of renewing, but found a $39.00 renewal fee on my Master Card this month. ( 9/06). Have been trying to contact them at the phone number listed on my M.C. and all you get is one message after another. THen I went on their website and have read several complaint letters from people who also are having problems being charged for service they don't want.

I, too had my $39.00 membership fee taken out without warning or option but the worst is a classmates's member under the high school I attended and loved, has added the most horrible pornicrafic pictures of herself. I do not want to participate in this any longer and I wanted to stop my membership which renewed Sept 1, 2006. I can not believe that CLASSMATES.COM allows this and my membership fee helps provide this type of entertainment. I want my $ back and off of Classmates.Com

1 year ago today, I signed up for the 'Gold' membership with classmates.com. I read the agreement carefully. Today, I received a 'Thank-you' from classmates. They had renewed my membership with no advanced warning. Automatic renewals are something I NEVER do to avoid unexpected surprises. This 'Automatic' renewal for 'my convenience' has pulled from a seldom used bank account and resulted in an additional fees incurred on MY part.

Seems to me I have the same complaint as everyone else. I registered for a 3 month membership only to retrieve an email from an old friend. As stated during the registration process, this is a one-time fee. It turns out that the so called one-time fee is recurring, therefore making it more than one-time. They offer no better services than any other social networking site out there and in my honest opinion the amount of advertisements is insane. For as many people as they are ripping off with their recurring billing, they should be able to afford to run the site without advertisers.

I signed up for a minimum 3-month gold membership to e-mail a friend. I had no intention of signing up again, and was in fact going to delete my registration from their site when the 3 months was over.

I agreed to being billed $15.00 on my visa credit card for a 3 month subscription to classmates.com in March of this year. When I subscribed it stated that the subscription would only last for 3 months.

After pestering me with countless emails to try their Gold Service I relented and acepted their offer of a 7-day trial membership for free. The downside is that I gave them my credit card number. I am now trying to contact Classmates on day 6 to cancel but it is of no use as they block their website to receive any inbound email and there is nowhere to find a phone number to contact this company.

I received an email stating I had until 9/8/06 as a gold member for classmates.com, yet I can't send any emails or look at any pictures.

Simple Escapes has been charging my credit card $11.95 every month since May 2005! It started to happen when I signed up for a gold membership account on Classmates.com. It was supposed to be a one-time fee. I only wanted the service for 3 months. I cancelled the subscription, but they continue to bill me for services / package deals I never received.

I have been trying for 2 months to change my email address with classmates without success. I have lost this time on my gold membership and resent losing that time looking for and reading my messages.

This is about Classmates and their free access to one's credit card without any notification. For years I was a memeber. It has served me no purpose. I received a notice today that they withdrew money from my account-no notice given nor was I given the opportunity to cancel. I told them I did not want this and yet they still took out money. Any other company give you a grace period within which time you can cancel or return your purchase. Classmates offer you nothing. This is unfair practice.

About 4 months ago I signed on with Classmates with a Gold membership at $59. I have only been able to login two times. Now they say my password is no good. I filed for another password that put me in "free status". I am not able to use my membership.

I would like to cancel my subscription with Classmates. It is a joke and is just full of ads that I am not interested in. Everytime I try to search for someone, the ads just keep popping up and it is impossible to use this to find anyone.

I am not a paid member of Classmates.com, but have logged on and was given the option to email to a friend. After writing the email & pushing "send", I was told it would not be sent unless I paid or the person I was emailing would have to pay. There was a "cancel" option in the bottom left corner, that I used.

Last July I subscribed to Classmates.com for 3 months at the price of $15. Classmates gave my account number to 2 different companies. Since that happened my checking account has been totally messed up.

On the 20 March 2006, this company renewed my subscription without warning or authorization. I sent in total 6 e-mails advising them to cancel my subscription and return my money ($39)to my Visa account. The first advisement was sent on the date of the subscription renewal 20/3/06. All names, corporate, street and e-mail addresses are suppressed. The only response is more e-mail advertisements!

I was contacted in December by Classmates.com that I had an e-mail from an old friend. I logged on and found that I had to pay for a membership to get the e-mail. I paid the money because I was really excited to hear from the friend. When I spoke with her on the phone she said she had a free membership and at no time was told that in order for me to respond, I would have to pay for membership. At the time I signed up for the membership, I am sure that, if I was given the option, I opted out of automatic renewal.

I signed up for a "Gold" membership 6 months ago because my class reunion was coming up and people were contacting me through classmates.com. I had already had a free account, but you can't return their emails without a paid membership. I am very anal-retentive when I signup for things because the last thing I want to do is to receive tons of junk email, or get charged for something I didn't want.

A few months ago, I signed up for a trial or short term membership for $15 and expressly avoided an auto-renewal. My credit card is being charged for an auto-renewal anyway, and the number out beside the charge is a long distance number (some customer service, must be accustomed to receiving alot of ANGRY calls), and no one ever answers no matter what time you call, nor is there an outgoing message!

Charging reccuring charges to my bank account when authorized for one charge only.

2 years ago I signed up for gold membership with 'Classmates.com'. I used my credit card so they called it automated payment plan. This year I dicided not to renew my membership when I was notified of renewel. Today on 2/2/06 I was notified so I went to the site to cancel when I finaly found the link to cancel I read that you forfeit your years payment if at anytime you cancel. I didn't think it meant the same day you payment was automatically made. This does not seam like a fair practice to me.

Last year I was bombarded with e-mails from Classmates.com saying that new people registered on line that use to go to the schools I attended. After opening up the e-mails, the e-mail would say sorry but no new people subscribed. After about 4 months of this, I sent an e-mail and told them to unsubscribe me and that the e-mails that they were sending me were fraudulent. In September of 2005, Classmates.com withdrew $39 from my checking account. And NO NEW E-MAILS WERE SENT TO ME, THEY JUST TOOK MY MONEY AND RAN. I tried to stop this with my bank but my bank said that I would have to close my account and open up a whole new account. This is a license to steal.

I received an unauthorized charge for $39.00 to join Classmates Gold on my husband's Citi Platinum Select Card. A few years ago, I did join for a year. Since moving to Florida from New Jersey, I chose not to renew my membership. I have read numerous complaints about this company doing the same thing to other previous members. I want this amount deducted from my credit card once and for all. I will dispute this charge with Citi and will not pay this amount.

For two years now they have billed my credit card $39 for membership. Last year I contacted them and told them that I had not signed up and they told me they didn't have an account under my e-mail address and did nothing. I was in the middle of a move and didn't go forward with trying to have it resolved. Again, for a second time they have billed me and I got the same response. They say to contact their Membership Services but give no information as to how that is to be done. I also notice that my high school name is misspelled.

This web site is not what I thought it was. I had cancelled it out but they are still deduting from my account. When I try to E-mail them I cannot find the sight. I do not want them to take any more funds from me. The site does not offer you what it appears on line. They are still taking funds from my account even thou I cancelled out three months ago causing me to pay over draft charges

This web site is drawing people in with a trial offer of 14.95 and then bills you for 59.00. They also have other companies that start billing your bank account for other services that were never approved of.

I find no way to contact them directly about their many goofs: like sending my messages to classmates back to myself. I can't redirect them. They appear to censor or fail to contact classmated that I know exist and are trying to contact me.

Classmates.com extracted $39.00 from mastercard 12-23-05 WITHOUT my permission.

I paid for a trial membership with classmates.com. It was a ONE TIME FEE, then out of nowhere I was charged without warning by classmates.com for whatthey claimed was a recurring membership. They refused a refund for the 2nd charge. I think a class action lawsuit is what classmates.com deserves. They literally stole money from my at Christmas. I will not stand idly by and allow them to do this to me or any other unsuspecting people.