I hate lying, cheating pond scum scammers.
Okay, let’s backtrack a little bit. I was going through my credit card bill this evening when I noticed that I had a charge for $88 from Streetdeal. I wondered about it, since I haven’t bought anything from Streetdeal in ages.
After a bit of research, I found out that a lot of people had already fallen victim to this same issue. Turns out that when you sign up with Streetdeal, they ask you to become a premium member and don’t realize that it entails an $88 quarterly fee. You can read what others have to say about it here.
I seriously don’t remember seeing that before. Why on earth would I sign up for something like that and then never take advantage of it?!?
The sad thing is that I don’t always check my credit card statements, so I may have missed out on who knows how many charges. Ugh. I will just console myself that it amounts to less than $1 per day, so I won’t feel bad about it anymore.
It’s just scary what online stores can do once they have your credit card details. That’s why I prefer using Paypal, because you can always manage your recurring transactions from their site and know if something is amiss.
After this scary episode, I promised myself, NEVER AGAIN! So tonight I asked the bank to block my credit card. From now on I’ll only be using paypal for online transactions.
Also from now on, I will be checking all my statements religiously.