Prechecked Cross Sales: Getting out of hand

[DannyCox]

Member area up-sales are great. I've done that for years, and have never had a problem. But no one is getting tricked as they are pulling out their credit card to join.

One thing about the prechecked stuff that hasn't been mentioned is that each checkbox has it's own billing account against it. So you join the original site, see it on your credit card statement, but you also get 2 other charges using different identifiers, and you'll probably never know where they came from. Regardless of what any of these guys say, their chargebacks just have to be huge.