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by Anonymous User on Tue Jan 18, 2005 at 11:53:08 AM PDT

I have one of those "free" NetZero accounts, now it's strickly my Spam address. Also have a Juno "free" account, now same thing. Juno used to be better as one could work email off-line. No longer, like NetZero you need to use their dialer which pushes ads and steals bandwidth. As I still like the idea of a "free" ISP dial-up for occasional use, I've switched to Access-4-free.

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my experience with Juno and Netzero[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#8)
by Anonymous User on Sat Jan 22, 2005 at 10:05:49 AM PDT

Not only does Juno require all their wonderful spamming They also will Lock you out of your machine if your account is closed and you have chosen to use another ISP or connection. Also they will charge you for their trial after you request it to be closed Months later I had a free trial I cancelled it I used the card that I signed up with JUST for bills for ISP and other thing online that had a monthly charge I only put the funds for those things in the account made my payments it was empty most time I Thinking since I called and cancelled Juno would never be charged WRONG they decided 8 months later to deduct a charge of 58.00 from my card because THEY claim I still had their service The first time I contacted them they apologized and in that same breath offered to give me three months free service BUT they would Not give my money back? Then after contacting more help there higher up and sending along a LONG list of links to gripes and complaints that I found online dealing with the SAME issue I finally got an apology and my money and darned if they did not AGAIN offer me 3 free months LOL Also the software had to be totally removed when I closed the account it locked me out of All connections Until all of Juno was removed I could not use any new connections It kept telling me I had to log in or sign up for Juno I stay FAR away from them and net Zero who took my neighbors check cashed it and would NOT open her account for two months Yet charged her for the time even though she never had access LOL That bunch well they are a piece of work. I never read the part about adding stuff to my computer maybe that was new or maybe that was why the machine locked up and would not allow me to use any service but theirs Personally I always felt they were the cheaper version of AOHELL Just my thoughts and experiences

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