Loopnet.com CoStar Horrific Multi-Year Ordeal, cannot cancel membership, forced to pay exorbitant fees monthly

Dealing with Loopnet feels a lot like getting mugged.

(1) The customer service is horrible - it's not the reps' fault, they're usually pretty nice (you can tell they feel sorry for the customers due to LoopNet's horrific billing practices), but a lot of LoopNet's policies are designed to swindle their consumers. 

(2) If you dispute a charge on your credit card, they send their legal team after you and your credit card company.

(3) If you miss the cancellation cutoff point by even a second, you are locked in for another year . . . having to pay upwards of $5,000 to $6,000 per year, all without the ability to cancel or contest the charges without having to face their legal team. 

(4) Once upon a time, LoopNet was a fantastic company offering valued services at a reasonable price.  After they were acquired by CoStar, these hostile billing practices will NOT FAIL to leave a bad taste in your mouth.  PERMANENTLY.  

I'd like to say that CoStar is most likely also a horrible company (going by LoopNet's newly hostile attitude), but I've never bothered to find out . . . I can't bring myself to subscribe to CoStar's services after this ongoing horrific experience with LoopNet that my company and I were forced to endure for two years.  

LoopNet is the worst real estate and/or web company that I, or any of my co-workers and colleagues, have ever had to deal with.  Please save yourselves the trouble.