Beware Of Rankpay

June 24, 2010 0 Comments

Rankpay was one of those services I thought would be a gamechanger in the SEO world. The whole point of the website was simple. You signup for free, tell them your website URL etc and they will build backlinks for you.

100% free.

If they managed to get you Google rankings, you would pay them a monthly fee. Only if you got rankings though. You had nothing to lose really. I thought to myself, darn… I got nothing to lose here, let’s give this a go.

This is where things got a little annoying.

I sold the website in question because a buyer came along with a good price. OK, so I stop all SEO work on it, and contact Rankpay stating that I don’t need that service anymore.

Got an email back from them.

It seemed alright, you know the normal stuff… sorry to see you go blah de blah, if we can do anything let us know. Oh and by the way we charge $200 for cancelling per out TOS. WHAT!?

Listen, I wouldn’t normally mind if they had stated this on signup. Which they didn’t. Hiding fee’s like this in your TOS is pretty darn sneaky if you ask me. This is how they must make a ton of there money.

Be careful of things like this. I agreed to the TOS so honestly I suppose I do owe it to them. But this is pretty evil if you ask me. They know 99% of people don’t read the TOS.

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