I signed up for the free 7 day trial to Privacy Matters to get all 3 credit reports and scores. I called in to cancel today and they offered to give me a year for only $29.95, which is what they charge for 1 month of service. Then my membership will automatically cancel 1 year from today.
I haven't seen this mentioned before. please excuse me if it has, but I thought this was a great deal for anyone who's interested.
That is typical for dealpass, also, which is run by the same monkeys....getting 1 year offer if you call to cancel...it is YMWV and might depend on where you signed up...
markkundinger
Senior Member - 2K
posted: Jul. 29, 2007 @ 10:42a
For a data point, about two weeks ago when I called to cancel, I went through the automatic phone system, and it canceled me automatically with no offer of any sort.
Voldaddy
Member
posted: Jul. 29, 2007 @ 10:47a
To add another data point, I used a link from my AOL email page. Didn't appear to be anything special, just sent me to their site. Here's the link:
I signed up for the 7 day free trial using a virtual credit card from Bofa shopsafe. Its been a month and I still have access to my daily reports. Anyone else get burned at the end by trying this?
Voldaddy
Member
posted: Jul. 29, 2007 @ 1:27p
terpaero said: I signed up for the 7 day free trial using a virtual credit card from Bofa shopsafe. Its been a month and I still have access to my daily reports. Anyone else get burned at the end by trying this?
Did you cancel it within the 7 day trial period?
terpaero
Member
posted: Jul. 29, 2007 @ 3:38p
Nope. And I haven't been charged beyond the $1 either as I set the virtual card limit as $2.
Voldaddy
Member
posted: Jul. 29, 2007 @ 4:51p
terpaero said: Nope. And I haven't been charged beyond the $1 either as I set the virtual card limit as $2.
terpaero said: Nope. And I haven't been charged beyond the $1 either as I set the virtual card limit as $2. You'll joi the blacklist at some point. At least this is what happened in similar Dealpass cases before.
Yes, there is the whole dealpass blacklisting...I got my dealpass programs canceled while had a privacy matter sub. and they canceled that, too..
StartingMoney
Senior Member
posted: Jul. 29, 2007 @ 6:05p
I signed up for this deal last May, and I can verify that it does indeed cancel automatically; no need to worry about forgetting and being charged again. I thought the auto-cancel was a nice touch.
Of course, back then the deal was 1 year for $15, but that's life.
amalpani
Addicted Member
posted: Jul. 29, 2007 @ 6:26p
Voldaddy said: I signed up for the free 7 day trial to Privacy Matters to get all 3 credit reports and scores. I called in to cancel today and they offered to give me a year for only $29.95, which is what they charge for 1 month of service. Then my membership will automatically cancel 1 year from today.
I haven't seen this mentioned before. please excuse me if it has, but I thought this was a great deal for anyone who's interested.
Can I pull my new report daily like TrueCredit or not? I'm interested in cheap ways for bumpage.
Trucredit and Privacy Matters are the same...I believe PM is just rebranded...so yes "B"...
sonnysighedup
Member
posted: Aug. 21, 2007 @ 4:26p
Just called to cancel a Privacy Matters 123 7-day trial and was given the automated offer for 1 year @ $29.95, so it's still around. The nice, automated voice said that it was being offered for a "limited time". I had just finished the same 1 year offer back in June and was having bumpage withdrawal, so I was happy to get this again. YMMV.
pyro123
Senior Member
posted: Aug. 24, 2007 @ 7:50p
Is this offer for unlimited daily pulls and updated daily reports?
Because it sounds too good, maybe you can only get a new credit report monthly? Someone confirm this.
LustfortheMoment said: maddybeagle said: Trucredit and Privacy Matters are the same...I believe PM is just rebranded...so yes "B"...
If Privacy Matters is just a rebranded TC, then why does TransUnion charge $29.99/mon. for PM and only $14.95/month for TC??????
Why does Exxon charge $3.00 for Super-unleaded, and the mobil across the street charge $3.14???
MARKETING!
Voldaddy
Member
posted: Aug. 25, 2007 @ 10:45a
pyro123 said: Is this offer for unlimited daily pulls and updated daily reports?
Because it sounds too good, maybe you can only get a new credit report monthly? Someone confirm this.
Pyro, you can pull a new report every 24 hours. It's a GREAT deal! Give me some green!!!
CycloneFW
Senior Member
posted: Aug. 25, 2007 @ 2:22p
LustfortheMoment said: maddybeagle said: Trucredit and Privacy Matters are the same...I believe PM is just rebranded...so yes "B"...
If Privacy Matters is just a rebranded TC, then why does TransUnion charge $29.99/mon. for PM and only $14.95/month for TC??????
Things may have changed in the past year. But last year, Privacy Matters was a separate thing that used TrueCredit's engine. Basically, when you subscribed to Privacy Matters 123, there would have you register with TrueCredit and issue a gift certificate to your TrueCredit acct that paid for TrueCredit's monitoring service b/c of your subscription to Privacy Matters 123. Anyway, you could then log in directly on the TrueCredit website and do you stuff, forgetting about the connection between the two.
Now, under this year's program, you have to log into Privacy Matters 123 and they present a login to a separate user database under TrueCredit's engine. I know this b/c it refused to accept use username and password at first. Then I re-registered to TC throught PM's website and created the exact same user name and password. The PM/TC login shows me as a new member with no history. If I go to TC website directly, I can log in my username and password (I am using the same one on both sides) and instead, it shows me a member for many years w/ an expired subscription. It shows many, many, history entries of when I got my daily pulls. However, my report on both sides is identical.
Therefore, I look at the PM123 and TC relationship like an insurance company and an agent. The agent can do everything for you, but it really is the insurance company provided service. This would be like a Progressive agent/direct thing. You can go direct to the company and you can go through a progressive agent. You may get different prices, but the same company is providing the underlying protection.
Awesome deal OP! Signed up with the SavingSmart / Privacy Matters 1-2-3 link. Called in to their toll-free number a few minutes after I got the on-screen confirmation with the membership number.
Rundown:
The option to cancel w/ the $29.95/yr one-time fee offer w/ no recurring charges was available if you 'had a question about charges or fees' and later chose the option to cancel. I will dump the regular Wa1Mart Tru3Cr3dit $11.21/mth for this rebranded service.
To cancel SavingSmart immediately as well, call their toll free number. Pick the option to get your membership number. It will ask you for either the phone number or credit card number used for signup. I chose phone number. Once you have the membership number using the automated system, hang up, and call back the same automated line. This time, choose the option to cancel, which asks for the membership number, and to confirm prompts for the zip code used for signup. After this, it confirms cancellation.
Green for you OP, for such a great deal on getting cheap credit monitoring!
No doubt a fantastic offer, one for which I have successfully completed myself thus far. But haven't you all been keeping up on how Truecredit is onto Bumpage? What makes you think PM won't follow suit?
toy4two said: Deal dead? Tried to cancel today, after 9 pm CST when they close, no automated cancel system, no offer, they just hung up on me.
I can report by not using automated system and talking to a real person I was able to get the deal! Thanks Op! This is awesome. These companies make lots of money off people who use it for b* like me and my g/f. There is no other reason we would use this service.
Don't use the saving smart option, just get the regular Privacy Matters 123 $1 trial, thats all I did. Second year in a row, easier to cancel once than two programs.
jastein78
Tired Member
posted: Aug. 30, 2007 @ 10:06a
I am trying to sign up for the free trial (so I can cancel) and I keep getting an error:
We are sorry. Your order cannot be processed. (7090)
I called the listed number 1-877-993-6264 and was told they can not enroll over the phone, there is no online support, and they did not know what the error is. Anybody have any different numbers or any experience with this error?
pyro123
Senior Member
posted: Aug. 30, 2007 @ 10:56a
I dont see the link as well but I sign up thru the other link. We'll see What do you think of Credit Diagnosis, looks similar?
Yeah went smoothly for me as well. Didn't go thru the savingsmart link just the regular free trial (or $1 refundable). Then called 1-877-993-6264. Option 1 to enter my member ID. After entering it, option 1 to question membership fee, option 1 to cancel and got automated offer but this time not for $29.95 like mentioned here but only $19.95 for the year! Didn't take me too long to accept that.
I got an interesting aspx error page with this link. There are some minimally interesting geeky details, but the main exception message is: GetLandingPageEntity : Check Gamers analysis
Perhaps they have identified that specific link as getting a lot of use by people "gaming" the system? They should certainly have a better exception handler in place even if this is a rare occurence to them.
danzg
Member
posted: Aug. 30, 2007 @ 4:46p
Woo hoo! I got it!
But now I feel kind of bummed that I got the 29.95 offer, and not the 19.95 like Shandril. Is it some kind of lottery?
Now to do the wife...
(FAT WALLET IS PHAT, YO!)
UPDATE: Not so easy to do the wife from the same computer...I get the "thank you" page instead of the sign-up page! Weird. I even deleted cookies. Maybe it's an IP thing? Do I need to go through a proxy?
I got an interesting aspx error page with this link. There are some minimally interesting geeky details, but the main exception message is: GetLandingPageEntity : Check Gamers analysis
Perhaps they have identified that specific link as getting a lot of use by people "gaming" the system? They should certainly have a better exception handler in place even if this is a rare occurence to them.
Yeah, I think you are onto something...the error message only seems to come up when fatwallet.com is in the referral link (which is what you really get when you click on a hyperlink at FatWallet)...if you take the original link and copy-and-paste it into your browser, you no longer get the error screen.
glxpass
Senior Member - 5K
posted: Aug. 30, 2007 @ 8:35p
Green for you, OP! Called at 6:25pm Pacific Time and responded to the prompts detailed above. I received the 29.95 offer. Still a tremendous deal -- if there aren't any catches!
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