Planet Sappho
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Las Cruces, New Mexico
I, too, got scammed for 6 month membership at $113.00 USD
After seeing a Facebook Ad for Planet Sappho, a supposed *** dating site for singles, I placed my ad-the basics. They advertise this site as "free", however, the catch is this; in order to reply to other women's emails and to answer others' personal ads, you must have a paid subscription.
Seeing that it was $39.95 monthly, at first I hesitated, as I didn't see anything special about Planet Sappho; unlike Compatible Partners[ E-Harmony's LGBT site] and Match.com which both charge less monthly! So I paid for a six-month membership which was $113. Immediately,a pop-up comes on, offering you a "Gold" membership for an extra $9.95 and something else for $14.95 I think; don't exactly remember as the first thought was " I just paid y'all $113!" Then I filled out my full profile; something which took me over an hour and a half to do and came out awesome. A few days later, I decided to change some things and did.
Mind you, their policy prohibits any " offensive" words, so I used " expletive" as many newspapers would and a song line. Needless to say, for some reason, my entire profile had been deleted without warning. I retyped the whole thing, trying to remember what I originally had written; describing myself as I am,a non-traditional college student who sees life from the glass half-empty worldview. Again, half the introduction was deleated.
I contacted their customer service and attempted to post a comment on Facebook when I came across " Planet Sappho is a fraud".
Looks like I'm out $113, enough to pay the State Univ. of NY's application fee of $50 more than twice!
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
PlanetSappho Scam
Planetsappho, a *** dating site, is owned by Cupid, a company that owns quite of few other dating sites.
PlanetSappho is initially free to join and gives you want appears to be an extraordinary amount of capabilities with the exception of reading or sending emails to other members. While you're in 'Free Mode', you receive an inordinate amount of emails and winks, giving you the impression that the membership base is huge and ripe with interested members. As the emails accumulate in your INBOX, your desire to become a PAID member mounts and eventually, you cave and join.
Here's where you figure out the scam: Once you join, the large number of emails stop, the many winks stop and only IF a real member stumbles across your profile and likes it, it's the only time you'll see another email or wink. I truly believe that PlanetSappho sends out bogus emails to pique your interest enough to join.
One of the free capabilities you have is to be able to view who has browsed you. When you receive 6 emails and NO ONE has viewed your profile, something is rotten in Denmark.
Should you become a paid member, PlanetSappho WILL auto renew your membership and it's pure *** to get them to stop.
Instead of this unethical site, check out PlentyofFish.com and still use caution before becoming a paid member.
I actually managed to get them to credit me that full $113. They tried every excuse, but when I explained that I'm a college student who did not have time for their horse-manure, their constantly deleting most of my freaking profile and then telling me to keep reading their " terms of service"[ the only thing " offensive" being my statement that I saw life from the " Glass is always half-empty" perspective and that I was immature for most 50 year olds]; they asked me if I wanted a " partial refund".
I said yes; naturally they offered me a membership on sister site, Cupid.com! LOL. I MENTIONED READING ABOUT THEM BEING A FRAUD IN PISSED CONSUMER BY AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE WHO FELT THAT THEY WERE! Needless to say, their system would not let them give me a " partial refund" of only $108.95; they had to return all of the $113!
Reading what was said about dating websites-a link someone posted in here-I took the advice of Top 10-rated LGBT-dating sites/heterosexual sites; good old Match.com was #1 on both lists; followed by others such as E-harmony/compatible partners at #3 and yes, Cupid at like #7. 8) I DECIDED TO GO BACK TO MATCH.COM under " Women seeking Women" and rewrote that same ad using the outline. Within one week I met two different women, one who told me to delete my match.com personal, as she wanted us to be mutual. The other, whom I have yet to answer for the second time, her email beginning with " Fructose", she wants for us to become close friends.
,) :) :) :? Which I told her in a short email is what I want to do! [ I need a little fruitiness and nuttiness in my life right now, as long as she understands me and I, her.] MY BEST ADVICE? Listen to others in here and yes, AVOID PLANET SAPPHO and its parent website, Cupid.com!
RIPOFFS!
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Ogden, Utah
Planet Sappho
I was a member and met a Debra Cunningham from California who scammed me for money and got me to send letters for her while she claimed she was with her sick grandma in the UK and asked if I would assist her so she could work her job in California and seemed like the sweetest person I had ever met. Just some person from Nigeria and once they peg you they get you again and again.
Reported a scam prior to her for Planet Sappho and they did nothing about it and the same person stayed on scamming other innocent people.
It sure make me wonder if planet sappho is in on the scams. Terrible place to get scammed very few real women.
they send you the emails they want and force you to put a credit card and they no event sending you the emaisl be carfullll
Oxford, England
Planet Sappho-Cupid PLC
Hi, I am very pissed off with the above place, reason being I subscribed for one month about 6 months ago and only realized recently that they are still taking off £24-99 from my account, what is the point of allowing you to subscribe for one month (to see whether you like the site or perhaps find someone on the site within the month) if they are just going to continue taking your money, I am so pissed off for I know they will not refund the money......this will definitely not encourage me to go on these sites again. Marike-London
They did the same thing to me. They won't give you a refund, I already tried. Instead I reported the issue to paypal for an unauthorized transaction.
Los Angeles, California
PlanetSappho - Caveat Emptor
I have been checking out several dating sites,always seeking the "free" ones.I've come to discover that there is no such animal,well,almost.Lesbotronics is like trying to break into Fort Knox,DateHookup a farce,mingles run by a group of uneducated chimps.So I decided to join PlanetSappho,I checked the 3 day platinum package for $6.95. Me;being the trusting soul that I am (not!)figured that after the trial was over the site would continue to bill me.I've found that out the hard way ...that's another story.
So I purchased a prepaid Visa from Walmart and put twenty dollars on it.***!I should have only put ten on it for they charged me twice!
Naturally I emailed them and just as naturally they admitted no wrong doing.Hey!It could have been worse,I could have used the card with the real money on it.So now I,m just going to spend the few dollars left on the prepaid and toss it.I recommend this approach to anyone when ordering a service.
I wish I had found this before I started with the membership. My card people called this afternoon to ask me if it was fraud.
I then decided to investigate and found this. I was able to go and cancel the transaction before it went anywhere.
The fraud dept has assured me that there will be no legal backfire to me from anyone and if this company comes after me to send them to the fraud unit from the card company. The fraud unit will care for it from there.
Reston, Virginia
Planet Sappho unautorized debits to my acct
I joined planetsappho, a dating/chat site, that offered a FREE 30 day trial. I cancelled after about 2 weeks.
Site was a joke and contacts were scary to say the least. Even though I cancelled within the first 30 days, they started charging my bank acct anyway. I eventually had to close my acct. and reopen a new one to stop the charges.
When I used their contact us link to complain and ask for a refund, I was contacted by phone by one of their reps. ( John White) He berated me, calling me ***, said there was nothing I could do since he was located in the UK and threatened to call the police on me for harassment. Then the site completely blocked all emails from my IP or email address. They ripped me off for a total of $280.
Since they are not based out of US there is really nothing I can do. Live and learn, never and I mean never trust a site not based in the USA.
just joined plantsappho wish i had read theses complaints before i will cancel my menbership today and call my credir card company plus ur right its not free all of theses sites are not free u have to pay in order to chat etc.. and pink cupid is worse i forgot my password and they never responed to me i had a 3 month sub there worse site to get one i think the best place to meet some one is to go to where they hang out cause spending money like this u many as well flush it down the toliet
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This is true. They just keep billing you even if you tick an option to be notified before your membership is automatically renewed each period.
They just bill you for the next period automatically.
You have to ring the UK to try to get our of it. Beware !!