Facebook, please buy Classmates.com
I’m the latest idiot to pay money for Gold membership on Classmates.com. The only people that have struck gold in the Gold membership is Classmates.com.
Got an email today that said 3 people had signed my guest book. I resisted the first two times, but this time I thought I’d check it out. Not only do I not know or remember the 3 people that signed the guest book, but I can’t see anything that they’ve written. No notes, graffiti, or messages. Just their names. As for the rest of Classmates.com, I haven’t explored it, nor is there any incentive to do so after my initial experience. The site indicates that there are dozens of forums. Dozens? That’s it? What a crap user experience.
Facebook, please buy Classmates.com. Convert all school names into groups. And stop the insidious Classmates.com banner ads.
Jon,
I couldn’t agree with you more on this. I recently poked around Classmates.com and was totally put off by their model. The idea of actually having to pay for a premium subscription seems ludicrous in the age of social networking sites like Facebook/Spock.
This is so 1.0
You know what? I actually wouldn’t mind paying for a site that actually had respect for its customers. However, clASSmates obviously has none of this. They can kiss mine. Sorry for my creative English, but it takes a lot to make me this angry.
Yea, that’s one of the things that pissed me off about classmates.com when they first started up. They would get you all excited about meeting friends that you hadn’t seen in years and then tell you “Well.. You have to pay us first”.. How can they bribe people like that? It was so low.. So after that I vowed never to give them a single penny. And it payed off! Not much later did MySpace and Facebook come out and I got in touch with 75% of my high school buddies for FREE.. Eat that classmates.com!
LOL
Thanks for commenting. Another story confirming classmates.com uselessness.
What a waste classmates is and what a great thing it could be. Yes someone needs to buy it and drop the fees altogether then watch it turn into what it should have been all along.
No. Don’t buy it, just rip out its entrails and start over from scratch. Who needs to buy a company that is a ripoff from the beginning?
Question!!
If classmates became free, would you use it?
Hell no! They have totally blown it!
I use it now, it sucks. It’s not the cost, it just sucks. Facebook has a much better feature set and UI.
I feel compelled to give Classmates.com credit where it is deserved. At least they have found one thing in life they are good at … they really SUCK!
A few months ago I discovered classmastes.com. They really know how to get you excited. At least that´s what they did to me. All the way over here in Mexico. But as I am an attorney. After some days I realized not everything they said was true. Now the emotion has passed away. I´m very disapointed with classmates.com because I thought I could really help me contact old friends, but afeter what I discoverd I´m convinced that will never happen. Most of all when many of them have passed away. And actually apear on the contact list.
Watch out for classmates.com they will rip you off.They have an auto renewal policythat renews your membership and they fail to remind you in advance it is due.Then they have your money and its to late. Sorry no refunds.What a scam.
I hate classmates.com. It is utterly worthless. Initially when they made you pay a fee to join, I would have joined had it not been so ridiculous. Not only did I not join, but a lot of my classmates also did not join – probably because it was so stinking expensive. So what good is it to join and then not be able to connect because it was so expensive?
Now with the advent of Facebook (much better than myspace, IMHO, for connecting) there is no reason for classmates to even continue. I can’t remember the last time I logged in.
You certainly hit the nail on the head with the word “STINK”.
They’re based in Seattle, and I happened to meet some of their engineering staff.
They didn’t impress me.
I am likewise not impressed, and I didn’t even have to meet their engineering staff!
I got rid of account and anytime you wanted to communicate with people it cost
I joined at the rate of $9.95 for the same reason,old friends are looking for me,now i have been auto billed for $39.00,make sure that they dont have your credit card number on file
This is why I’m changing my credit card number. I don’t trust them at all!
I signed up for classmates.com for the $9.95 GOLD membership for a year. My account was active immediately. I was lured by “someone wanting to contact me”! Excitedly I logged in with my new password to find a whole lot of nothing. Very few members. I immediately emailed my concern to classmates requesting a refund. Their reply: The $9.95 GOLD membership is NONREFUNDABLE.
The only good news is that it only cost me $9.95 to find out how shitty a product can be. STAY AWAY FROM THIS SITE AND OFFER.
The best we can do is word of mouth. It’s a very powerful tool that increases exponentially. Use it.
Classmates .com also nails you on renewals. somewhere in the origianal agreement you allegedly okayed automatic renewal. Needless to say, since they don’t send an E/Mail, you won’t know it until you get your bill. they refuse to give you credit.
Although CM does give you the option of changing from auto renewal to having it under your control, I simply do not trust anything they say now. You can see in my blog that follows yours that I will have to change my credit card number to assure myself that they will not charge me again. Power to the consumer! Let’s run them out of business by letting as many people as possible know what a ripoff this is.
I just cancelled Classmates two days ago (2 1/2 months before expiration) because I’d simply had enough of their CRAB! At the start, I inadvertently registered under a name same as mine in a different graduation year. I contacted Classmates and told them of the error and re-registered under the right name. I was told I’d be refunded for the double gold membership. The idiot I contacted later took the wrong name off the list, and I ended up paying for TWO GOLD MEMBERSHIPS. Never got the refund. To add insult to injury, the site recently started putting up a poopup (deliberate misspelling) ad that pops up nearly every time you click. It was so annoying that I sent three emails telling them to remove the poopup or that I’d not renew 2 1/2 months from now. The problem continued to such an annoying degree that I could no longer stand it. I wrote to them expressing what I thought of the site and that would be contacting as many people as possible to warn them of this lousy service. They obviously have absolutely no respect for the future value of a customer. Although I have changed my automatic renewal to having it under my control, I expect they will not honor this, and I am planning to change my credit card number so they may not charge for automatic renewal. I hope the site dies a horrible, twitching death.
The strange thing is that hundreds more of my high school friends are on classmates.com than are on facebook.
I keep trying to recruit my classmates.com friends over to Facebook.