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If you do have a problem with Classmates. If you follow the links back to the Classmates Media Corporation site, you'll find a contact link. The link connects you to an online form in which you provide your name, e-mail and phone number as well as your message.

Finding a phone number is more challenging. While the Better Business Bureau has given Classmates. That suggests the site has become much more adept at responding to and resolving customer complaints. That's good news for Classmates.

But with the rise of other sites like Facebook and MySpace, how many people are willing to pay for the ability to send a message to an old friend?

We have Classmates. While some may dismiss its business model as being out of touch, the site has succeeded in helping long-lost friends reconnect. Sign up for our Newsletter! Mobile Newsletter banner close. Mobile Newsletter chat close. Mobile Newsletter chat dots.

Mobile Newsletter chat avatar. Mobile Newsletter chat subscribe. Social Networking. Social Networks. How Classmates. See more pictures of popular web sites. Contents Using Classmates. Using Classmates. A Point About MyPoints. Benefits of Classmates. Complaints About Classmates. When you join Classmates. What is a social networking site? Anonymous Coward , 12 Nov pm. Matt , 12 Nov am. I was able to get back in touch with my classmates the ones I liked anyway though facebook and it was easy, and more importantly, free.

Josh , 12 Nov am. Chris Charabaruk profile , 12 Nov am. High time someone finally decided to take that site to court. But as Matt says, does anyone even bother with Classmates.

I don't even see their messages anymore, having blocked them out as spammers, and with practically everyone but not their pets or imaginary friends on Facebook anyway, for free, I can't imagine anyone but the most weak-minded actually putting any time and effort into that site.

Richard Drew , 5 Jan am. I am up to my neck fed up with classmates. Their "reunion" page won't let me put in info, it just goes away and then they don't let you put in a phone or contact info on the site either.

They billed me several times after my year was up without me having given ok to renew. I am trying to get people together from 2 HS's and it's been arduous to set up not having a yearbook for one of the schools, facebook isn't much good if people have married names and you can't always remember all the names of those you'd like to find.

I'd be happy to join any movement to sue the bastards. Maurice H , 30 Apr am. I don't people are "weak minded" because they want to connect with old friends or classmates. The problem is sites like Classmates taking advantage of decent people who want to recollect. I have not joined, as there are very few people I want to see from 50 years ago, but there are others who want to, so don't fault them for wanting to go back in time. Yakko Warner , 12 Nov am. I signed up for a "free" account at Classmates.

Not to mention the popups. I'm married, and I'm reasonably sure I entered that on my profile, yet I kept getting hit with popups encouraging me to join the Classmates Dating site. I've gotten emails saying someone has signed my Classmates guestbook, but guess what?

You have to pay to see who signed it. It wouldn't surprise me to find out that the "mystery signer" is really Classmates. Greg Thomas , 15 Nov pm. Noah Buddy , 12 Nov am. I had a similar run in with Roommates.

Maybe I should think about suing. Mike , 12 Nov am. I hope he wins, I hate companies that use deceptive practices I hope it costs them plenty. I did some contract work for a site like this but was geared more for the adult contact genre. I remember them sitting around laughing in surprise as they read a letter from a pair of subscribers who had actually met on this system and ended up getting married. Tracker1 , 12 Nov am. As to the email notifications, dunno if they get nuked after the other party closes their acct, so that may have been it.

Ganbo , 12 Nov am. Good for him PLUS, there is a ton of advertising on the site and pop-ups, etc Erv Server , 12 Nov am. I get email weekly saying someone signed my guestbook on Classmates. Though tempted to payup and have a looksee I suspected something was up. Yes Itoo Get the Someone signed your book Yesterday ,,. I Will not re subscribe Again!!!! I saw the scam back when it first came out. Plus like I was not popular in high school and I know it was bull.

Virtual Impax , 12 Nov am. Let's hope the courts give Classmates. Anonymous Coward 42 , 12 Nov am. I was about to say that this guy is whacked in the head for suing a service for not delivering, when there's no way they can control who does or doesn't use the service.

However, if they told him that somebody was trying to contact him in order to get him to upgrade, and there really wasn't anybody, then yes, they deserve to be sued, because they outright lied. That's false advertising, plain and simple. I would hate to see a company I own and I don't own any companies, for the record go under due to the competition being better than me, but I would never attempt to use false advertising to try to support a failing business plan.

Not only is it morally and ethically wrong, but somebody's bound to figure it out sooner or later, and when they do, your reputation goes right into the sewer, which is clearly what's happening here. Elaine , 12 Nov am. I believe the legal term is fraud in the inducement. If the seller presents you information that influences your decision to buy and that information is false or misleading then you have grounds to sue. I hope the case gets class action status and Classmates.

Also annoyed by this crap , 12 Nov am. Click here to see them now! The latter should be forbidden and punished. Carla from Cheers , 12 Nov am.

I signed up for a free account with Classmatescom, and this was 8 or 10 years ago. Ever since then, email from the company comes to one of my junk email accounts - a free Yahoo email account that I've always kept open. It's impossible for the emails they send me to be legit, since I'm registered using my married name, and a school I attended once in my life for about 3 months. Nobody's looking for me based on the parameters I entered into the Classmates. I think it's really stupid to sue a company for something like this.

Who cares? Get a life. Nitro , 12 Nov pm. Then, when you try to take it back, they tell you to get a life. Perhaps it is the year that I graduated, making me and my classmates more curmudgeonly but I have not found a ton of my former friends on Facebook.

So I suspect that the many emails I have received, particularly in the past 12 months, of folks signing my guestbook are false advertising. I thought it suspect at the time, but there have been a few times when I have been tempted to pay up just to see who was trying to get in touch.

I am hoping my new Facebook profile will be more successful in reaching the one or two friends I can't seem to locate any more. I did find an old crush and she is hotter now than when she declined to go to the amusement park with me age DavidB , 12 Nov pm.

My experience has been similar. There were people in my graduating class. And of the , there surely weren't more than 20 or 30 that I would have considered "friends" who would want to contact me now, almost 30 years later! Anon Cow , 12 Nov pm. Twinrova , 13 Nov am. This is a lawsuit I can easily support. The guy's not out to get millions, but simply a return in fees to everyone. With more lawsuits like this that are legitimate, the more big business may make changes to do the right thing.

Hoping for a win on this one, as it will set precedence for ALL sites doing this! Don't stop there. Go for Reunion. All these sites do is provide fodder for the spammers. Joe User , 13 Nov am. A few years ago I actually had a gold account and use it to successfully contact a few people.

Some of us are still in touch. Before my gold membership ended I altered my profile to provide enough hints to people looking for me about a web site that I could be contacted at the site filters out emails and web site info.

This trick has actually worked well over the years and I haven't paid for a membership since. I have a friend from high school who doesn't have a myspace or facebook page, but he does have a profile on classmates so one day I figured I'd pony up for the shortest membership to see if I could get back in touch with him. The guestbook signing thing works like this: If you look at someone's profile it "signs" their guestbook automatically unless you check a box saying you want clasmates. So when you get those emails someone did actually go on your page, but there's no guarantee that they were actually trying to get in touch with you and not just seeing if you got fat or divorced or some other curiousity about classmates or that in fact they weren't looking for someone else with the same name as you.

I hope he wins. Dismas Redhorse , 23 Nov am. DSA , 25 Nov pm. I signed up years ago for the free account only to become highly annoyed by the "you are one step away from not gold, but insanity " BS.

A few years later, I had a couple of old hometown friends contact me through classmates. I was able to get in touch with them without upgrading. But then my email was bombarded with classmates.

I discovered that the guestbook isn't a guestbook at all but rather a profile visit where visitors may checkmark a selection that lets me know they visited. That's all. It does not store any personal data. Functional Functional. Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.

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Too many peoplle have been scammed as company refuses to refund your "membership" fee, let alone deliver the products. Products used: Nothing received as advertised. Yearbook was not available as they claimed.

I purchased a three month trial membership and there was no email to request continued membership or notification of renewal date. I found a charge on my bank statement, the same day the draw was initiated. I immediately contacted customer service for a cancellation and refund request. No response.

I sent a second request, no response. I contacted the BBB and filed a complaint. Only then did I receive a response with a statement: "we are issuing a refund. In fact, they stated this was a voluntary "one" refund. Even Paypal would not refund because it appeared as a auto renewal. Tip for consumers: Beware of "auto-renew".

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