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"Click here to claim £10 voucher of next Halfords.com purchases"
You click there, you go to another window. Alarm bells will start ringing when it asks you for your credit card details. "what for?" you will ask. For the £15 a month membership of Complete Savings. Complete con more like.
Not new and not confined to Halfords. Seems to appear on quite a lot of shopping sites.
That sounds like a Malware issue then?
Not new and not confined to Halfords. Seems to appear on quite a lot of shopping sites.
Yep, I think they must pay to place an aver there, then mimic the typeface / look of the website to make it appear like the last step of the checkout process.
I've seen that on loads of sites. It's legit, just not very nice.
Often it's a survey, but more likely it's some kind of membership to a service that lets them bombard you with offers.
Its not malware. I forget what the company is called. Had the misfortune of having to install their script onto a customer site in the past. I presume the hosting site earns commission from it.
I'm not normally one to get involved with stuff like that, but in November I bought something from WH Smith online and they offered me £15 if I signed up. I read the Ts&Cs and did a bit of background research, and decided to try it, half-expecting to regret it at a later date.
I forwarded them my email receipt from Smiths. A couple of days later they confirmed it and I cancelled my account by going on their website and clicking "cancel." A couple of weeks later I got a cheque for £15 which I've just paid into the bank today.
No, I don't work for them.
Company is called Complete Savings. It is "legit", if you spend a certain amount a month with partner companies, it's worth it, apparently. I won't.
Looking at a review site, there's a load of belly aching about how this company is stealing money from people, with responses from "mary" at CS saying "this the sign-up page, all the Ts&Cs are clear"
Well they are if you're the type to read them, trying to find the catch. If you take it at face value and sign up without reading thoroughly, you'll get stung for fees you weren't expecting.
And it's very hard to look at that page and think that it's not been designed to catch people for fees they weren't expecting.
If was properly legit, the costs and benefits, and why they benefits are worth the fee, would all be spelled out.
But there's naff all about the future benefits, even who the other participating sites are, All about the one voucher (VOUCHER, VOUCHER, VOUCHER!!!) you get "now" (after one or two more purchases) and a few well-dispersed lines about the £15 a month ongoing cost.
Glad you got it to work for you, Northwind. I get the impression you're not the sort of customer they're looking for! Sounds like it's a different scheme anyway.
When I was researching it, I came across someone posting on some forums who claimed that the offers and benefits he'd managed to get offset the £15 monthly fee, but I found that hard to believe unless you buy a lot of c**p you only decided you needed when it was on offer.
I think they're hoping you'll try it for the introductory freebie and get hooked.
Just about the right side of dodgy. To be fair, it's as clear as most things. Yes, you have to read the Ts&Cs, but if someone offers you £15 for free, you'd have to be born yesterday not to go looking for a catch.