just a little annoying…
I think I’ve ranted about Classmates.com before. In short, I think that they’ve become too greedy. You pretty much have to be a paid member to do just about anything at their site.
This morning I checked my mail and found I’d been sent an email via Classmates from one of my friends from high school. I went to reply, and at the top of the page, it says this:
Please Note: As a Classmates member, you may reply to this Email once. To be able to send Email to any of our more than 38 million members or to reply to this Email more than once, you must become a Classmates Gold Member.
So I thought, ok, I can reply to my friend, give her my email addresses outside of Classmates and be done with it. I compose my reply, and hit “preview message”.
What does their system do next?
Niki, you’re so close to getting in touch with **** ****!
All you need to do is become a Classmates Gold member and you’ll be able to email **** ****, or any of our more than 38 million members, whenever you like.
Um, yeah. Excuse me? Did I not read that first statement correctly? Does it not say that I can reply once without having to pay?? WTF??
Bastards. So I sent off an email to them this morning asking what the heck is up with that, their system lied and is demanding I pony up the membership fee before I can reply to my friend. What a crock of shit!
I don’t expect to hear from them any time soon, so I am trying to cheat the system by posting my email addresses in my Bio. For my friend to have sent me that email she obviously is a paying member, so she’ll be able to read my full bio and see my email addresses (craftily spelled out like “niki at prismaticdragon dot com” so as to avoid any automatic filters in their software!). I just hope she checks it and sees it, as I’m not sure how else to get ahold of her at this point. And there is no way I’m going to pay for a Classmates membership, even for a few months. I’m not catering to their evilness.
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