What would you do if you saw someone trying to harm or take advantage of one of your neighbors. Step in and stop it? Call the police? Mind your own business?
What about when it happens to "neighbors" in this community? If the "police" (moderators) aren't responding, do we stop it, or just mind our own business?
I saw at least three posts yesterday with titles like "FREE Gift for the holidays for you and yours" that promised "FREE beautiful gifts . . . my special way of saying happy holidays to everyone." The posts had a link to a website, and I checked it out (suspecting that "free" probably wasn't).
The "free" deal required that the gift recipient enter credit card information and agree to pay $5.99 shipping and handling for the gifts. Scrolling on down through the vaguely-worded terms and conditions, the "fine print" revealed that by doing so, the recipient was apparently also agreeing to join some type of club and receive a similar item on a regular basis (presumably forever), and to have his/her credit card billed $44.98 plus tax each time. It noted that the recipient wasn't required to keep the items, but that there were no refunds (they could only be exchanged for a "merchandise credit" within 10 days). Happy holidays.
On one hand, I tend to think that anyone who falls for something like that deserves what he gets. On the other hand, this community was created for small business owners to help each other, and trying to pull something like that here sort of ticks me off.
So what do you do when you see things like that? What should we do? Live and let live . . . hope the moderators respond . . . take a more "proactive" approach? Comments?
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