If you're a Wowcher customer, you could get a £4.99 refund over the next few weeks – but you'll need to act to get the cash. The online retailer is paying out a total of £4 million to 870,000 customers after signing them up to its 'VIP' subscription using a pre-ticked box on its website.
Wowcher to refund 100,000s customers £4.99 each after signing them up to 'VIP' memberships – here's how to claim the cash
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Wowcher to refund 100,000s customers £4.99 each after signing them up to 'VIP' memberships
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Nice of them...
Once again shows that people NEED to LOOK at what they are agreeing too. 🤦♀️Life in the slow lane0 -
They are refunding because the CMA is looking into their practices.born_again said:Nice of them...
Once again shows that people NEED to LOOK at what they are agreeing too. 🤦♀️
Previous ME article:
https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2022/07/wowcher-complaints-holidays-products/However, the problem is that the VIP sign-up box only appears when you add in your contact details, and even then you can only see it if you scroll back up to the top of the page, so you're unlikely to notice the change in price unless you're looking.
Pretty shoddy behaviour.
In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces0
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