Damn Stamps.com
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I'm sure somewhere in the small print they told me I was required to sign up for a monthly service fee just to purchase one stamp one time.. but that's crap. I looked into it, signed up in January, decided not to purchase and am now checking my CC statement and see they are billing me a reoccuring fee.
Now trying to see how to cancel the service, and I'm required to call an 800 number.. this smells just like AOL and how impossible they make it to cancel an account. -
It's a known scam by USPS. They don't tell you about the monthly fee. If you dispute it even after you cancel because many times they keep charging you they will just say "you still had access to the website, so you own the fee" even if they have it on the record where you told them to close it.
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my CC company is putting a 4 year block on the account as of now.. so even if I get saddled with these two months of fees, I won't have a third.
and I'll be making an irate call in the morning to cancel.
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@Dashrender if you want to get attention on these things, putting special characters in the title means that things like the Twitter feed can't link and the thread gets far less visibility.
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The website makes it look like Stamps.com isn't related to USPS other than being a reseller.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender if you want to get attention on these things, putting special characters in the title means that things like the Twitter feed can't link and the thread gets far less visibility.
Updated. Thanks. We have a titter feed? not that I would follow it, I really don't like twitter.
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@scottalanmiller said:
The website makes it look like Stamps.com isn't related to USPS other than being a reseller.
USPS sells postage on their own site, why would they own this sham of a place?
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@Dashrender said:
Updated. Thanks. We have a titter feed? not that I would follow it, I really don't like twitter.
Yup. It's not huge, but it has activity.
@MangoLassiit
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
It's a known scam by USPS.
Did USPS buy Stamps.com?
as far as I know they've always been a partner of it. I don't know if they actually own it or what.
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I think Stamps.com is just like Paypal in so much that they simply resell postage for USPS.
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@Dashrender said:
I think Stamps.com is just like Paypal in so much that they simply resell postage for USPS.
What does Paypall resell?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Updated. Thanks. We have a titter feed? not that I would follow it, I really don't like twitter.
Yup. It's not huge, but it has activity.
@MangoLassiit
What decided which ones get posted?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
as far as I know they've always been a partner of it. I don't know if they actually own it or what.
Partner doesn't mean that this is a USPS scam. Partner can just mean reseller or any number of things.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I think Stamps.com is just like Paypal in so much that they simply resell postage for USPS.
What does Paypall resell?
Paypal doesn't resell them you buy them directly from USPS using Paypal's volume discount.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
I think Stamps.com is just like Paypal in so much that they simply resell postage for USPS.
What does Paypall resell?
Postage - maybe resell is the wrong term. you can buy postage for anything through PP. You don't have to be paid for an item through PP to use PP to buy postage.
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I had no idea you could get postage by any means via PP.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I had no idea you could get postage by any means via PP.
Yep. But stay away from UPS on their. even though you pay for it they way it works with them is paypal is on the account name even though it shows yours. You can't dispute anything. They damaged a speaker that I shipped. Then blamed it on improper packaging because it needs to take a 10 ft fall and be fine according to them. When I disputed it they kept making fraudulent charges.. but paypal doesn't let you dispute UPS charges. So they took me for over $500 is random No deliverable address, return shipping fess etc. Even though the item was delivered fine just damaged. They tried to say the apartment number was missing but it was on all the shipping labels and records. just not on the invoices they made up after I opened a damaged package case. I almost took them to small claims court but I figured it was not worth the trouble. I usually just ship USPS priority mail if I can.
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Call your credit card company and tell them that you would like to cancel direct debit permission for the stamps buttheads.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I had no idea you could get postage by any means via PP.
Yep you can.
Bookmark this link
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_ship-nowThis link allows you to buy postage without having it attached to a payment you received. I can find no way to get there from withing PP itself, this direct link is the only way.
But, if you do receive a normal 'fees included' payment through PP that includes an address from the payee, Pp gives you a button that lets you buy postage from them and print a label you can then tape to the box.
