Great Fun review: charged by credit card for 119. 99 769

Well I think the best bet 4 everyone to do. Is call your local news station and they will air it and try to contact theese people. I also received this card and not sure why?

I order movies online thru columbia house and they said thats how they got my credit card info, I clicked on their link (which I never did) I'm not intester in what their offering. They charged me $36.99 2/27/09 on a friday, thier not open on the weekends so I had to wait til Monday. I called [protected] they cancelled the membership and said they will refund my funds also got confirmation #. 3/6/09 I received a credit for $11.78, So I called them back they tried not to give me the rest of the refund, so I got transfered to a supervior name Toni Caldwell she said I should recieve the rest of the refund and another confirmation #48 hours to 7 business days it 3/18/09 still havent recieved the reminder refund. I reported my credit card lost, so this won't happen again.

All I can say is: I got scamed like everyone else! Only they've gotten braver. They charged me $129.99, not 10.99 or anything that small. They should be in jail, or at least out of the scam business! Also, the time I've spent trying to resolve this mess is stupid. I have better things to do!

Wow. Ya. I just looked over my 2008 account summary from my credit card and I was charged on the 7th and the 28th of EVERY month last year. The first fee is always $14.99 and the second is anywhere from anywhere from $0.25 to $18.27. Capital One said that someone is typing my account # in manualy. It added up to $247.40 throughout 2008 and I never even noticed! WTF? What do they even say that their membership offers? I can't believe that they are simply a business that offers nothing but changes the crap out of people and is not liable for anything? How is this possible? Once I cancel my Great Fun account tommorrow, do I HAVE to close my credit card? Have they gone after people a second time? Freaking unbelievable...

Great Fun has been charging my credit card twice a month since January 2008 and I just noticed it on my credit card year-end summary. During 2008 the charges added up to $247.40 and ranged anywhere from $0.25 to $18.27. They are not even a real company, they just charge people membership fees to do nothing. I can't believe how many people they have screwed! How can they not be liable for anything?

I purchased a airline ticket on line for my mother. I kept getting pop ups from Great Fun. I received a membership card in the mail and $12.99 has been taken from my checking acct for the fee. I cannot get connected to them in any way. This is a fraud and I want My money back and want to know how the airline Air Tran could allow the to get my card numbers.

i cancelled my membership but i am still beong charged.

I am being charged after cancelling the membership and without permission from me

my name is carlo parente and i recely went online
to check my account then i saw a $36.99 charge from
tlg great fun and i never heard from and i would like how
could get my money back?

I purchased shoes from Shoebuy.com.Months later they sold my checking information to great fun.Great fun then, since 08/15/08, starded charging 11.99 a month up to 03/15/09.I called SHOE BUY.Shoe buy tells me it's "my fault". WE ALL NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THESE COMMON THIEVES!

*********DON'T USE TRUECREDIT.COM...THATS WHERE THEY GOT MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER FROM**********

I notice a charge for 12.99 from TLG GREATFUN on my checking account but i hadn't used that debit card in weeks...didn't think much of it until(delayed transaction or something) i got a "check" for $10 in the mail, saying if i cash it it automatically enrolls me in a membership, this was the 4th check i have gotten. never cashed them, just throw them away...but i noticed it said Great Fun on it, so i got onto my online banking and checked. sure enough this company had been charging me 12.99 for the last 3 months, always pulling on the 26th. So i called them up and chewed out the foreigner that answered, finally asked to speak to his supervisor. said he was going to refund the money for the last month to my account...BS! So this morning I went into my bank, reported them as fraud, they canceled my debit/credit cards and my bank is pushing those transactions back through. So i called them back and told them not to refund that payment because my bank was taking care of the situation. They told me it was to late, so i told them well thanks for the extra 12.99 for being a pain in my ###! GOOGLE FTW!

*********DON'T USE TRUECREDIT.COM...THATS WHERE THEY GOT MY CREDIT CARD NUMBER FROM**********

My credit card has been charged the last four months with Great Fun. I thought maybe it was from a catalog from christmas purchases, but now I know that isn't the situation. How do I get this taken off my credit card?

great fun is taking my money $.99 from my bank account.

this company charged to my credit card 11.99 without my authorization!

OMFG... CHASE... THE DAMN CHASE BANK is responsible... My bank got taken over by Chase (it was previously Washington Mutual), then Chase... I called them just now...and the lady said it is PART of their program... I was like...wtf are you talking about?! I never APPROVED anything...and she's like " i understand your confusion sir, it will be cancelled and refunded..." SO, they KNOW they are doing it and hoping people are stupid enough not to notice...well...wtf...I just paid off my credit card and never used my card since and then get a charge... OFF COURSE I am going to notice it...

I definitely agree. Apparently my husband thought "TLG Great Fun" was something I ordered, so he never questioned it. I finally did come up recently, and I told him I never heard of it. I remember following an "Are You Interested..." kind of link--possibly while doing an airline booking--and when I saw what it was all about, cancelled out of it. I never authorized a charge. I never signed an agreement. My husband is investigating how long this has been going on.

I have scammed by great fun. They have charged my credit card $11.99 for 4 months. I thought the charges were for CDs until this month when I knew we had definitely not ordered any CDs. I called the number today listed on my credit card and talked to the rep. He said this started with an order from Discount Dance. At first he said he could only cancel further charges. Then he said he could refund one month. I was absolutely livid and insisted that all charges had to be refunded and he said I should write to this address:
Support Services (attention Executive Support)
P.O. Box 6100
Westerville, Ohio 43086
My letter was mailed today.

I never ordered this service and I demand my card be credited as soon as possable

4-7-2009. My Mother who is 85 had the same thing happen to her. I thought she had just charged something and just forgot what it was. But she insisted she hadn't. They charged her $199.99. She didn’t get a teaser check in the mail to cash either. They just charged it without any authorization what so ever. So I did a Google search and found these posts. Thank God we know what's happened now. Thanks to everyone for sharing your experience. We have been able to get the charges dropped from her credit card and she is going to close that credit card as well. Golly, it's terrible that we as honest folk have to spend our precious time and resources watching for thieves like this.

I JUST GOT MY CREDIT CARD STATMENT TODAY. I WAS CHARGED $99.99 I DON'T REMEMBER EVER SIGNING UP FOR THIS ACCOUNT. DOES ANYBODY OUT THERE KNOW WHO THES PEOPLE ARE? I AM GOING TO CONTACT MY CREDIT CARD COMPANY TODAY. THANKS TRISH

The company behind all of these scams is:

Trilegiant
100 Connecticut Avenue
Norwalk, CT 06850

Telephone: [protected]

If you go to their website you'll see all the companies they own. It's unbelievable that they still get away with this. I sent a complaint on their web site's "Contact Form"...I don't expect to get an answer or any help, but I think it would be nice if we all bombarded their system them with complaints!

Not only did they trick my mother into a membership (she purchased something on Miles Kimball's website)...but even after we complained and got a partial refund they STILL SEND HER CHECKS THAT ARE ACTUALLY SNEAKY WAYS OF GETTING HER TO SIGN UP FOR OTHER MEMBERSHIPS!

I have been receiving charges to my amex account of $12.99/mo for 8 months. I was able to find the phone number [protected] on the amex statement. I called the number to cancel and was told by the representative that I had choosen an offer for rebates when making reservations with hotwire.com. I don't recall agreeing to any offers and typically never would.

Beware of making reservations using HOTWIRE.COM

This company uses fraudulent methods to gain your account information. In my case, promised a rebate after buying a ticket on Priceline.com; which I thought rebate - great! But it was the screen after you click yes, you want the rebate that they tell you "welcome to your --blah, blah, blah---membership". And you go - what memberships, what happened to my rebate? Oh, by agreeing to take the rebate (and after the fact of agreeing to said rebate), they say you authorized a membership in their company/program. Lovely.
Well, I didn't, neither did any of you, but you were asked a trick question at some point where you said yes and in their warped view, you agreed to their membership. In my case, I called them immediately and canceled and reamed them out verbally. then I called my bank and told them to watch for any charges from Great Fun or other suspicious "membership" - reoccurring charges.
but now I keep getting these stupid "check enclosed" mailings from Great Fun, who supposedly removed me from the list in November (called 4 times), December (called 5 times) and January (called and threatened lawsuit and re advised my bank of the situation). So for about 1-2 months I stopped getting mailings and now they have started all over again. What is the point?
the point is to either trick you into cashing one (or some poor senior citizen or a lower mental capacity individual), or hoping someone will steal the darn thing plainly labeled "check enclosed"! and cash it fraudulently, so they can start charging you.
I have again called and got the voice mail (vm) of the President's office, who never returns messages or calls. They refuse to acknowledge their mistakes or issue a letter of apology and promise to cease and desist as asked. So I am posting today as a matter of public record that I made yet again another attempt to get off their mailing list and verified that my membership is canceled via operator "Patrick" and I want nothing further to do with or contact with Trilegiant or any of their associated companies or business partners.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Springer

My credit card was charged $12.99 by some company called TLG great fun. I called the 1-800 number listed on my billing statement and talk to some one who could barely speak english and could not understand what i was talking about. When I told her that i never authorized a transaction with this company she told me that i did. i told her that i wanted proof of this and she SAYS that she will send it to me. I want to know how people get away with something like this that causes others such headaches. I have my bank doing fraud investigation on them because the company refused to help me or give me money back. How do you pursue a lawsuit against someone for unlawful charges to your account and for me being inconvienced by this so called company. Its scary how this happens and they get your banking information. I will be going to the attorney generals office about this for the state of oregon

these frauds have been charging my credit card for the service that I never used and heard of.
jay patel

I have been getting checks from Great Fun for the past 4 months sometimes twice a month! The checks said IF you cash you ARE AGREEING to be charged ____? a month... I ve never cashed them simpley bc i dont know anything about the company and i dont need another "CHARGE" on my acct! Ive kept every check they have sent me just to keep record of, now today I received a bank statement saying I have to pay so many $ 25.00 charges bc Great Fun has been yanking money out of my acct!
First off I dont know how these ppl even got my name and address.. Ive never even been to their web page til now and now they have my account info! This is rediculous! I bet they are HAVING GREAT FUN with everyones money!
This really makes me angry and its really kind of scary!

Good Luck to everyone dealing with this problem!

Where do I find the confirmation code

We got this charge on our credit card bill and had no idea what it was for until I found you on the internet. Thank You so much for taking your time to write this out for all of us. My husband just finished talking with them and they said I (Doris) joined something to get a discount from Miles Kimball on line. I never got a discount from Miles Kimball and I paid exactly what it said on the internet.

They said we might have to pay the initial $12.99 but it would be taken off next month. My husband was very kind but talks with an authorative voice so they did not argue with him very much but will be watching our statement next month.

Thanks again,
Doris

Great fun has charged my credit card twice for 12.99 at a time and I do not use their services. I have no need for such a membership. I would like for them to refund both charges in full.
Sherri Jarvis
SJARVIS13@neo.rr.com

I CALLED ABOUT BEING ENROLLED WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION WITH THE POSSIBLITY OF IDENTLY THEFT
I WAS YELLED AT BY THE ASSOCIATE WHO TOLD ME THAT I WAS LIEING ABOUT SIGNING UP WHEN I ASKED HER WHAT HER NAME WAS SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS THE HIGHEST PAID CUSTOMER SERVICE REP THEY HAD AND SHE WASN'T GOING TO DEAL WITH MY S--- . IN ORDER TO CANCEL THIS MEMEBERSHIP I HAD TO CALL A TOTALLY DIFFERENT NUMBER AND GET THE RUN AROUND. THIS BUISINESS IS BAD BUSINESS WITH RUDE ASSOCITATES.

this is a scam.. i have never signed up with them and they are taking money out of my account. i don't even know how they got my info..

called federal trade commission [protected] and filed a compliant

i think all of you should to...

I have the same problem today. My credit card issuer told me just several minutes before that TLG great fun PLG is collecting USD11.99 from my account. I had non idea about it too. I thought over and over and remembered that it might come from a web in which I booked a hotel room and got an email of confirmation with a Great Fun link which said 10% discount more will be given at next order, but had not said any thing about membership or membership fee!

I first noticed the charge of $11.99 on my March statement. I figured I had used my debit card and forgotten to enter it in my register. But it also appeared last week, same amount. So I went to the bank today to see if they could find out where the charge was coming from. The teller gave me two phone numbers, and I used reverse number research, but I couldn't find either number. Decided to see if I could find it by going by the name TLG+Great Fun, which I had never heard of, at Ask.com and found this site. Thank goodness. You can bet I will be going back to the bank on Monday, with a printout of these pages. My debit card expires next month, and I hope I get a new number. Incidentally, the two phone numbers I was given don't match any of the numbers from other complainants. No wonder I couldn't find them.

This freaking company needs to be stopped now ! First they rip off your credit card monthy then after closing my account they send me their freaking fraudulant checks in the mail weekly. What can be done about this bogus ### ? "Ready to blow in Illinios"

PRICELINE gives our credit card information to this company... I think they should be held responsible! How are we going to stop these small fraudulent companies when the bigger ones we are supposed to trust are in on it. I've lost hundreds on this deal. Thanks Priceline! Screw your cheap hotels! Put them both out of business!

they charged to my debt card $36.99 and I don't know who they are or what they offer

Same problem here. Thanks for the info. I am going to call to cancel today...this really sucks...

I can't believe this company...when I called they totally made me feel like I was a complete idiot for not knowing about it and how they were saving me so much money! Ridicules! Horrible company.

i just notice a charge on my visa debit card for the amount of $36.99 and i told them i dint request their service and how and why are they charging me for this amount. and they told me they got my inf from COLUMBIA HOUSE
as Columbia house the movie and music DVD Cd's company. anyways a few month a go i receive by mail a discount card name great fun, with no inf about whats the card about, i dint paid much attention, but they said it was a discount offer i got trough Columbia house and i probably dint take the option off and that's how they got me. but i call and cancel today they gave me a confirmation code with no problem and im they are suppose to give me a full refund back. so lest see. i hope i don't have to cancel my cc and get a new one.
their website is greatfunsite.com.

good luck to all!

I too just noticed a charge of 11.99 on a credit card that I have not used in months. I have disputed it with the credit card company and reported the card as comprimised...a great friend is the director of Labor & Ethics at the ABA..he is out of the country for 2 weeks but will see what information he can provide to help us all with this scam !