Complaint Review: GGW VIDEO - Hollywood California
- GGW VIDEO MRA VIDEO PO BOX 150 Hollywood, California U.S.A.
- Phone: 323-965-8710
- Web:
- Category: Video Stores
GGW VIDEO ripoff Sending me monthly Girls Gone Wild CD's that I didn't order or want billing me $24.98 monthly and ignoring my cancellation requests Hollywood California
FOX 6 investigative reporter John Mattes first broke the story how Girls Gone Wild was marketing videos for only $9.99 consumers found the company tacking on huge fees. Thousands of consumers called it a rip-off on ripoffreport. After our story aired an attorney sued calling it deceptive advertising. Video part 1 Video part 2
*Consumer Comment: Monthly previews and tapes
*Consumer Comment: Let's make this clear. GGW company business model sucks, and they're ripping off good, honest Americans--and that should piss all of us off.
*Consumer Suggestion: Pay better attention to the commercials...
*Consumer Suggestion: MRA GGW
Made a one time order from G G W VIDEO 06/07. Have received a monthly "Girls Gone Wild" CD for the past two months and according to Washington State Law, it is not required that I send them back or pay for them if they are not contracted for. I throw them away.
I noticed on my July/August VISA statement a charge for $24.98 from G G W VIDEO and checking back, another $24.98 charge the previous month. I have written GGW VIDEO to stop the rip-off and get no reply.
The California #323 965-8710 is automated and a waste of time. The California Attorney General should put an immediate stop to this world class RIP-OFF
Melvin
Wenatchee, Texas
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#4 Consumer Comment
Monthly previews and tapes
AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Saturday, January 04, 2003
To the previous, I understand your point but, if you get a tape in the mail with them authorization of your card and you don't want it, write in there don't want, return to sender.
I still never received an answer. The company still advertises. I have yet to receive another tape because of their "club" You should be asked that question over the phone. And why not a money order. Its not any of their business.
#3 Consumer Comment
Let's make this clear. GGW company business model sucks, and they're ripping off good, honest Americans--and that should piss all of us off.
AUTHOR: Jason - (U.S.A.)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, January 02, 2003
Several people have replied to these posts by arguing that the commercial DOES inform the viewer of joining a club. But I have yet to see one decent argument in favor of this position.
So far as I can tell, the entire basis of this position rests on one sentence in the TV commercial: "Then be the first to preview the latest Girls Gone Wild videos."
Yet, to use this sentence as the basis of the argument that GGW informs its cutomers of joining a club unduly relies on the vague notion of the word "preview." "Preview" may connote various meanings. For example, when some people hear the word "preview" in the above sentence, they reasonably may think that other GGW videos will be previewed at the beginning of the 1 GGW video that had been ordered.
When we go watch a movie at a theater and someone says, "Oh, let's not miss the previews!" Does anyone ever think that the word "previews" refers to entire movies? Just the same, people have reason to think that the word "preview" here connotes the meaning of "preview" in the movie theater sense.
The GGW company business model sucks, and they're ripping off good, honest Americans--and that should piss all of us off. The last I checked, the creator of GGW was upgrading his Falcon-20 jet. So, if you're going to contend that some of the people on these posts are dumb for not seeing the fine print, at least delineate your argument and points decently so the rest of us can evaluate your own reasoning skills.
#2 Consumer Suggestion
Pay better attention to the commercials...
AUTHOR: Timothy - ()
SUBMITTED: Saturday, September 14, 2002
This is a standard direct response television practice and is used by countless of manufacturers on TV.
If you notice the commercials distinctively say "use your credit card and receive the second video for free" and then they say and post on the screen (albeit quickly and in small type) if you do so you will receive future tapes / products / vitamins... whatever for a higher price continuously until you cancel.
They are also required by law to tell you that on the phone and via mail with the first order. If your too dumb to notice that (which is what the whole DRTV biz is based on )than really it's your own d**n fault.
FYI - if you send a money order you'll only get the one tape or product...they WANT you to use your credit card and join the club...it's a loss leader.
#1 Consumer Suggestion
MRA GGW
AUTHOR: Steve - ()
SUBMITTED: Saturday, August 31, 2002
There is one possible solution to this whole mess. If anyone still orders from MRA verify to them that a money order is getting sent out and keep copies of billings as well as the tapes. When you get a tape in the mail, I was told take a screwdriver, open the inside, take out the tape and put blank tape in there. If you send a money order they can't take record of a credit card and then it will even up things. The company will get sued big time and be out of business. No way a company can keep scamming the consumer. It has to stop somewhere
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