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Classmates extortion?

Posted by admin on Thu 22 of March, 2007 22:53 EDT

I have to comment on this. I received an e-mail today from Classmates.com today telling me that someone had posted a message to my profile. So I went to the site and was told I would have to upgrade in order to read the message. So do they get to hold that message hostage until I pay? Even after the sender paid for the privilege of sending the message? Brings a whole to meaning to the concept of sending a message, huh? Give me a break.

I've been a non-paying member there for years, but got pretty disgusted a few years back when they went to a pay model and locked down all the information they'd harvested over the years. And that's what they'd done. They provided a useful service for several years in order to gather all the information they could and then put up walls to extort you into signing up for the service. It's lame.

Stay away. Stay far away.

\\Greg

Details:

Classmates.com wrote:
 ____________________________________________________________

                    Who checked you out?
 ____________________________________________________________

 Hi Greg,

 1 person signed your profile!

 Think you know who it was? Find out who's thinking of 
 you now. 
 http://www.classmates.com/go/e/1916436/MVN111406_A_L1A1/4503385848/CM3600