Buyer (or not) beware
By: John Bispala 02/01/2006
I’m watching my telephone bill carefully this month because I received a letter from a company called GlobalYP.Net, thanking me for signing up with them for unlimited Internet access. I don’t know why I would have done that; I already have a perfectly good Internet service provider. Furthermore, the letter said, “Your business website is already posted... Check out your site NOW!!” Further down it promised to bill me $34.99 a month on a separate page of my local phone bill, if I keep this site after 15 days. But why should I set up a new web site with somebody I don’t even know, when I just closed one with a trusted web host? GlobalYP.Net, also known by the Better Business Bureau as INT-21 Communications, has an unsatisfactory rating with unresolved claims, according to the BBB.
Such a web site proposal might have started from a telephone solicitation with misrepresentation, or just out of the thin air in cyberspace — who knows? If you get such a solicitation, check it out with the Better Business Bureau, online at www.bbb.org or by phone at 651-699-1111. Thanks to the suggestion of the BBB’s Jane E. Driggs in the January Camden News, I was able to recover the money from my credit card company for undelivered printer ink ordered over the web.