Did Classmates.com turn into a complete scam, or just a partial one?

[Miramonti]

I registered with Classmates.com years ago with a fictitious name, not resembling anyone who went to the schools that I added to my profile. In fact, the last name is fairly obvious it's not real.

Yet I get these emails:

Clicking on the link eventually takes you here if you want to see who supposedly signed the guestbook:

How can they get away with this?

 

[krylon]

Facebook is there for a reason

Unless you're a creepy stalker

Then there's Facebook

 

[FoBoT]

i'll go with complete

my wife paid them once and i don't know if she ever got it cancelled correctly, i know it was on our credit card again a few months ago

i think facebook killed it

 

[Ramma2]

Pretty sure it always has been a scam.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I signed up about a decade ago but not for the pay version. I just don't give a shit about most of the people I went to high school with, if I did, I would have stayed in touch with them.

 

[SunnyD]

I sign up with fake accounts every once in a while to see if any of the losers I went to school with decided they wanted to get scammed.

 

[Miramonti]

i'll go with complete

my wife paid them once and i don't know if she ever got it cancelled correctly, i know it was on our credit card again a few months ago

i think facebook killed it

She very well might have cancelled it but they continued to charge it anyways.

Countless complaints

 

[IceBergSLiM]

man if they weren't so greedy they could be the billion dollar company that facebook is.

 

[Cogman]

You mean to say that it wasn't a scam?
Hey, give me your information, and your credit card number, and I'll hook you up with people you once knew. Its a win win!

 

[Miramonti]

You mean to say that it wasn't a scam?
Hey, give me your information, and your credit card number, and I'll hook you up with people you once knew. Its a win win!

That sounds more like a business plan offering a legitimate service and I think it's successfully facilitated quite a few reunions over the years, altho it appears deceiving and scamming people has become a much greater part of their business plan and approach.

Back near the end of 2007 they planned an IPO, but cancelled it due to 'poor market conditions.' Now no way in hail would they ever get an IPO off even in the best market conditions. :biggrin:

 

[meltdown75]

it's things like people signing up with fake accounts to useless sites that make me feel better about having eleventy billion posts on two forums.

 

[TallBill]

it's things like people signing up with fake accounts to useless sites that make me feel better about having eleventy billion posts on two forums.

I just need to make fun of someone and it's easier online.

 

[Miramonti]

it's things like people signing up with fake accounts to useless sites that make me feel better about having eleventy billion posts on two forums.

Who's to argue with that, prozac costs money.

 

[NFS4]

Uhhhh, I found all of my HS and college buddies on Facebook... For free. Why the f**k would you use classmates.com?

 

[Miramonti]

Uhhhh, I found all of my HS and college buddies on Facebook... For free. Why the f**k would you use classmates.com?

I signed up in early 2001, and they don't unsubscribe anyone so I still see their emails with the system I use.

But I probably can't rhetorically ask how many HS buddies you were in touch with from facebook back then because you probably weren't even out of HS in 2001.

 

[Pepsei]

i sign up once with a fake name, a guy's name, to an all girl catholic school too. so yeah... it's a complete scam.

 

[TwiceOver]

It's really a good idea, probably one of the original social networking sites. Unfortunately it was implemented pretty poorly and is pay.

 

[dwell]

The only good thing about Facebook is it completely killed classmates.com. Classmates has *always* been a scam.

 

[Farang]

i sign up once with a fake name, a guy's name, to an all girl catholic school too. so yeah... it's a complete scam.

So you disguised your identity in order to stalk Catholic schoolgirls on the internet?

 

[Pepsei]

So you disguised your identity in order to stalk Catholic schoolgirls on the internet?

i don't remember why i did it.

but if i want to pick up underage schoolgirls, i'd do it on myspace with a fake name, fake age......

 

[clamum]

It's really a good idea, probably one of the original social networking sites. Unfortunately it was implemented pretty poorly and is pay.

Pretty much. It was out for about 5 years (more?) before Facebook was opened up to the public.

 

[CTrain]

man if they weren't so greedy they could be the billion dollar company that facebook is.

Yup, summed it up pretty much.
Can't imagine anyone dumb enough to still pay for it when facebook is free.
Even if they decided to make it free, it can't compete.

This site is a scam.
I signed up a couple of years ago when they had a special for $9.99/yr.
I tried cancelling it after a while but I couldn't find a phone number or any contact info.
After the year was over, they automatically renewed me for $39.99, WTF!!
Still couldn't find a number to call so I got my CC to do a charge back.

 

[Gillbot]

Pretty sure it always has been a scam.

this

 

[dawp]

Well, according to wikipedia, thy've been around since 1995 and I remember signing up for it soon after that. Never did go for the pay version though. Was pretty much usless back then as very few people I'd be interested in used it when I sign up.

 

[zeruty]

I've had an account there for a long-ass time.
Probably 2000-2002 time frame.
At one point, if you went to the sign-up page, and then hit cancel, it would offer to give you gold free for 1 year.
So I had gold, free, for one year. And it sucked.

Speaking of early social networking sites, how many of you remember sixdegrees.com?