[NMCycling] Don't get taken by the Active.com scam

[Dennis Chavez via Bike-racers]

I cringe when ever registering for an event via "Active.com".  It's either
pay the ridiculously over priced fee, purchase their annual Advantage
membership or do a 1 month trial of the Advantage membership.


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, John Vance via Bike-racers <
bike-racers at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> Active.com enrolled me in their "Advantage" program with automatic billing
> without my knowledge when I signed up for the Gran Fondo.  Their message
> informing me went into my spam folder.  You can unenroll from automatic
> billing but they make it a pain in the ass.  I half expect they're going to
> charge me $65 anyway, forcing me to call my credit card company.
>
> This is a pretty shady business practice in my opinion.  I hope local
> organizers will keep this in mind when choosing online registration
> providers.
>
> John Vance
>
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