I just
stumbled on this piece and l thought that there is need for me to share it with
my followers.
Be2 dating is a dating site to be avoided at all costs.
The company is fake and fraudulent, and will steal money from your bank account
because they do not give you clear information in their terms and conditions.
Here is my story.
I know many people who have found
their partners through online dating sites. Personally, it is not for me.
Having said that, a single female colleague of mine had a discussion with me at
work one day, and pondered over whether we could ever find our ideal guys,
given the fact that we were always too tired after work to bother going out to
meet someone. When one gets to a certain age, it just seems like too much
trouble to go out in the hope of finding a suitable male companion. 'We do not
mix in the right circles' we bemoaned. 'Maybe there is something to be said
about internet dating. We should give it a go.'
I went home
and thought about it. Did I want to spend the rest of my life alone? Would not
it be lovely to share a sunset with someone special? I cannot say I am unhappy
being single, I have got plenty going on in my life to keep me happy, and I am
certainly not lonely, but I thought it would be nice to meet a like-minded guy,
with whom I could share a friendship. I was on a certain social networking site
one day when an advertisement caught my eye, reading along the lines of 'Find
love in your 50s'. I decided to have a look, and to cut a long story short, I
ended up signing up to Be2 dating. Initially it was free. I answered a few
questions and they gave me a summary of the type of person I was likely to be
compatible with, and I could do a search in my area for suitable matches, so I
just thought, 'Oh well, go for it and see what happens.'
However, Be2
would not let me go any further without signing up for a 'Premium' membership,
which would cost me £5.00. So I paid the money with my card and began my search
for Mr. Right. It did not take me long to realise that this was not for me. I
actually made myself laugh. What on Earth was I thinking of? This was no way
for me to meet someone, and to be honest I really could not be bothered.
Every day
when I opened my email inbox there would be mail from Be2, telling me there was
'new matches' for me. In the end I got fed up and went back to the site to
cancel my membership. But the link on the site which said 'unsubscribe here'
did not seem to be working. In the end I forgot all about it. The mail stopped
coming and that was that. Then four weeks ago - to the day, as I write this - I
went to the bank to make a withdrawal, where I was told I had insufficient
funds. What? I only checked my account online twenty minutes ago and there was
money in there then. The teller went on to tell me that I had used my card at
10.05 (it was now 10.20) and the transaction was for £149.95. I was actually
standing in the queue when the money was taken out, I explained to her. How
could I have done it? I asked her to tell me who the money had gone to and she
could not tell me. Cutting the story short again, it turns out that the money
had gone to a company in Luxemburg, who after a bit of digging around, I found
to be this dating site Be2.
Luckily for
me, my bank's fraud prevention department had picked up on it straight away and
sent me a text (while I was still in the bank trying to sort it out) and they
blocked the payment. I came straight home and e-mailed Be2 and told them that I
had not authorised this payment, and if they tried to take it again I would
report them to the authorities, that it was theft and I would take legal action
against them. I received a reply telling me that they did not operate under the
law of the UK, and that I was bound to the 'terms and conditions' which I
should have read before I joined. After a lot of wrangling and exchanging
e-mails with this company, they finally gave in. I had told them that I had
tried to cancel my membership, but the link was seemingly 'broken' They told me
that they had now cancelled my membership but quoted the terms which evidently
say that 'after one month - if you do not cancel before that,- you will be
billed for a six month's subscription.' However, they do not give you the
opportunity to cancel, because the link does not work. They work on the assumption
that if (like me) you do not manage to do it, you will forget about it.
I did a bit
of digging around on the net and found many women - just like myself - who had
been ripped off by Be2. I was one of the lucky ones, I got my money back, but
many more did not and the company are still operating to this day. There will
be a big outcry about this company before long and I want to warn everyone not
to get involved with them because if you do, you stand to lose a lot of money.
I know there are some good sites out there, like match.com and e-harmony, but
do not get involved with be2. Check out Be2 scams on google; see for yourself
and one more thing, before you sign up for anything online, ALWAYS thoroughly
read the terms and conditions.
As a post
script, I would like to add that two months on, this nasty company has once
again taken £150 from my account, and this is AFTER my membership has been
cancelled. The bank are doing everything they can to recover my money, but I am
not holding out much hope. The only thing I can do is close my account. It is a
lesson learned. I will ALWAYS read the terms and conditions in future before I
buy anything online.
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