I was online searching for a grant because I want by a house. I was recently laid off from job and and i am receiving unemployment. I see these advertisements everywhere where they promise to find you grants to cover everything from homes to personal grants for starting a new business. When you log onto the site, they get you really geeked up and then they want you to input your information and asks that you pay $2.97 for the starter kit which was once mailed but now they allow you to download it from their site. When you finally get the starter kit, you are confused because alls it gives you is names of grant services. Now get this I was under the impression that I was only responsible for that one time payment of $2.97. Well to my surprise I went to look at my bank the next day and voila those crazy people charged my credit card an additional $57.61. I called the number 1-866-396-6522 and asked them why they were charging me the additional fee.
They told me that I had signed up for a membership. Now I remember specifically paying the $2.97 and not authorizing any other payments to come. The customer service lady told me that they have a one day free trial and then they charge the credit cards on file. I went off on her and she was telling me that I could not get a refund. I told her that I was going tn use that money to buy food for my kids. She started trying to calm me down because at that poont I had become irate but I informed her to deactivate the account ASAP and that there was nothing that I had more to say about it do to the fact that I was not going to get my money back. I threatended to take this to the federal trade commisssion if those are the proper agencies to report these so called Grant Starter Kits. Dont do it. It is a scam to get about $64.00 or more out of you and the information that they provide is worthless. All I had to do was google the info that they so called gave me for free. Dont Do it! You've been warned..