Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Anything but "Free"...

Avoid like a plague Freecreditreport.com, regardless of their "hip" ads. They are anything but "free."

They advertise that you can access information you are entitled by law to access, they call themselves "Freecreditreport" (note the word "Free" in the name), then they charge you for the privilege of membership giving you one of three reports for free (this is the way they get around it; "freecreditreport" singular, as in one) and charging you for the other two. Only after you register via a somewhat confusing process do you see a message that tells you that truly free (as in no charge whatsoever) credit reports can be had via another organization not affiliated with them.

What's that odor you ask? You say it smells like bait and switch to you?

I made the "free" mistake, but I won't make it again.

I'll go to annualcreditreport.com instead.

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