Comments on: Finding Great Real Estate Foreclosure Deals with RealtyTrac

By: Rae

Rae — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:16:29 +0000

If you read the fine print (term of service), you will see that to cancel by telephone there is a $5 charge. To cancel by email you must email 5 days prior to the date you wish the cancellation to be effective. Mailing and faxing are free, but again, good luck with the timing. So, in theory, your 7 day free trial is more likely only 2 days:)

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:58:05 +0000

Is it true that 80% don’t pay off their interest-free financing on time? Personally, I’ve never had problems getting rebates, have bought appliances from Best Buy without paying a dime in interest, and cancelled more than one free trial before being charged. Follow the instructions and you won’t get burned. Take responsibility for your own failure to follow through. Onthuhlist sounds like one seriously stressed out cat.

By: Jack

Jack — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:07:21 +0000

I agree, you should remember to cancel something. If it is free you cant really say anything bad if you forget to cancel.

By: onthuhlist

onthuhlist — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:27:36 +0000

No, we are not saying we’d consider signing up if there were no free trial. But this trial is not really free. It is only conditionally without cost. And that condition is that you must have complete control of your future so that your car doesn’t break down or your grandmother doesn’t die so that you’re at a funeral on the day that you were going to cancel the trial. What we’re saying is we’d consider engaging in the free trial if it were truly free without any strings attached, allowing us to make the financial commitment AFTER we had evaluated the free trial, rather than prior. The ONLY logical reason why a company would require a user sign up financially BEFORE evaluating the trial is to create greater income for the company, as users forget to cancel. That is why Best Buy and all the furniture stores offer “no payments until ____”, and “____ days same as cash”, because the cold hard facts are that 80% of customers won’t pay the note off within the time period, and when that period is over, the interest will backfill from the purchase date. The idiot moron mindless dolts, therefore, are the users who place their finances on the line for an offer whose sole reason for existence is to place needless financial risk on the consumer. And you haven’t even considered the wasted time and inconvenience of calling to cancel your account. Read “The Millionaire Next Door”, or listen to Dave Ramsey. You will see that your scorn is misapplied, because millionaires become millionaires by AVOIDING such financial behaviors. Speaking of “idiot tax” financial behaviors, let me guess…you probably have a car payment. And you likely have a credit card payment. Not here. And you likely play the lottery too, right? Why is this, when the lottery is a “tax on the poor and those who can’t do math”. Lastly, the correct grammar would be “God’s sake”, not godsake. But I’m not sure why you’re bringing up religion in this forum. And I’m not seeing the connection between God’s spotless character and your irrational opinion that it’s good to add charges nilly willy to your credit card that will accrue unless you jump through a hoop by a certain date.

By: Me

Me — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:11:16 +0000

You are idiots. You are saying it would be better if there was NO free trial, and then you’d consider signing up? Letting you use a service for free is a scam? If you are such a moron that you forget to cancel after a week consider the $50 an idiot tax. Write yourself a note for godsake. And if you don’t, next month the $50 on your credit card will be a reminder. What complete mindless dolts

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By: M

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:44:49 +0000

I agree with you. I did not sign up for the free trial as I was required to provide my credit card information. I didn’t see the need to do that if it is only a free trial. I think the free trial is just a way to suck you in. It is just fishy….

By: onthuhlist

onthuhlist — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:28:56 +0000

Frankly, signing up for a free trial to a service that will charge you $50/month when you FORGET to cancel because the car got hit or the child got sick or a million other ways that LIFE HAPPENS…to me, this borders on immoral. It’s making a potential customer sign up for a huge ($50/month) risk just to get access to a trial, when a trials entire purpose is to EVALUATE IF THE PRODUCT IS WORTH PURCHASING. I hate these scams. They are as bad as mail-in rebates, which if you forget to dot an ‘i’, they reject your request for rebate. Realty Trac just lost me as a potential customer.

By: Terry

Terry — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:59:51 +0000

How do you find the sales prices for the houses listed by RealtyTrac? Do they seem to be pretty good deals compared to other houses in your area?