Beware: Rockyfroggy

macgyver

It is just to warn everybody not to do what I did.

My wife sent me a link on my mobile to chose a gift for her as he had won a national rail survey on ther their website.

I clicked through the link and chose a gift and I had to pay a small postage of £1. When I checked my email, there was a small print that I have been entered into a subscription which I didn't agree to.
I have tried their number but nobody picks up the phone but I have cancelled he subscription by logging into my account.
I have contacted my credit card company and instructed them to make sure that no further payments are taken fro my account.

U live and learn

Collabora

macgyver wrote: »

It is just to warn everybody not to do what I did.

My wife sent me a link on my mobile to chose a gift for her as he had won a national rail survey on ther their website.

I clicked through the link and chose a gift and I had to pay a small postage of £1. When I checked my email, there was a small print that I have been entered into a subscription which I didn't agree to.
I have tried their number but nobody picks up the phone but I have cancelled he subscription by logging into my account.
I have contacted my credit card company and instructed them to make sure that no further payments are taken fro my account.

U live and learn

I bet when you placed the order their would have been a notice about subscription. so you should read everything as if its too good to be true then it will be.

MothballsWallet

Rockyfroggy11: I've reported your post as spam as you're advertising your own site, which is against MSE Forum Rules - the very same rules you're supposed to have read and agreed to abide by when you signed up.

ElefantEd

Or, more charitably, maybe it's an April Fool?

louise66_2

Anyone seen this 'offer'? Recommendation from one guy, thought he would risk losing "less than a cup of coffee." But, unbelievably, he got the phone.
I think the danger here- and if the offer is genuine, I apologise - is having to give credit card details, not the possibility of losing a meagre sum. They will have your card number, and the ability to use it.
I am also of the 'if it seems too good to be true, it probably is' school of thought. The article mourns apple's small share of the UK market but - one arm of our company is a mobile phone high street business - and the iphone is a real must have.

SnowTiger

louise66 wrote: »

Anyone seen this 'offer'? Recommendation from one guy, thought he would risk losing "less than a cup of coffee." But, unbelievably, he got the phone.
I think the danger here- and if the offer is genuine, I apologise - is having to give credit card details, not the possibility of losing a meagre sum. They will have your card number, and the ability to use it.
I am also of the 'if it seems too good to be true, it probably is' school of thought. The article mourns apple's small share of the UK market but - one arm of our company is a mobile phone high street business - and the iphone is a real must have.

Such as this page?:

Here’s the deal: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is giving away the new iPhone 6 (64 GB) to UK citizens for £1. Yes: one pound.

As part of a promotion, RockyFroggy can offer iPhone’s that cost 99% less than the regular price.

Why offer this crazy promotion? The Director of Marketing at Apple, Joel Branson says: “last year, the share of Apple’s market in the UK was lowered to 35% and is losing against Google’s Android worldwide. Apple can wants to add more British customers by offering this extremely low price. We are hoping to convert them into loyal customers that will spread the message to their friends, thus enabling us to grow.”

It's a con.

Apple's things are still very highly sought after. If Apple was worried about losing market share it would simply reduced the price of its iThings slightly... not drop them to £1 and flog them through a scammy website few people have heard of.

If you click on any of the links on that page they take you to the Rockyfroggy website. Odd that.

It's a scam website set up by a scam company. Don't waste your money.

Cherryangel26

I wanted an iPhone. Filled in freight card details and stuff. Never knew about the subscription till after. Have sent 3 emails to them to cancel it. I haven't logged in incase I make the situation worse. What should I do?

wealdroam

Cherryangel26 wrote: »

I wanted an iPhone. Filled in freight card details and stuff. Never knew about the subscription till after. Have sent 3 emails to them to cancel it. I haven't logged in incase I make the situation worse. What should I do?

How did you pay? By card?

If so, speak to your card issuer and instruct them to cancel the Continuous Payment Authority to this company.

LSD01091993

I don't mean this in a cheeky manor however I saw this ad on Facebook and thought I'd check it out and having known what company's like this are like I read the terms and conditions and it states clear as day how much it costs, when you will be charged and how to cancel. And doesn't allow you to go any further without you agreeing. So as long as people keep signing up to things like this and failing to use both common sense and failing to read a simple sentence company's like this will continue to charge people plainly down to to their own stupidity.

geerex

LSD01091993 wrote: »

I don't mean this in a cheeky manor however I saw this ad on Facebook and thought I'd check it out and having known what company's like this are like I read the terms and conditions and it states clear as day how much it costs, when you will be charged and how to cancel. And doesn't allow you to go any further without you agreeing. So as long as people keep signing up to things like this and failing to use both common sense and failing to read a simple sentence company's like this will continue to charge people plainly down to to their own stupidity.

Reading a simple sentence is obviously a very different thing from creating one, eh?

pg562

I was taken in by RockyFroggy yesterday and stupidly didn't read about the £74 per month charge.

I had a go on a few games and I think I won an Apple TV last night and I think I'm in first place for an iPhone 6 and MacBook Air.

I can't work out if I've been lucky or unlucky here. It seems a bit too good to be true?