Hello,

I paid for Basic Limewire on May 8 for 2 Yrs. ($22.80). I have been having firewall issues and I un-installed it (un-intentionally deleted it too).
Please let me know what you can do for me because I thought I could just re-nstall it again. I tried to log in as a member but could not. (I never received an email after purchase). Naturally I don't want to have to pay again. Please help asap.

Thanks.

Fred Muchunu.

You've been scammed. LimeWire PRO costs $18.88...

Please read...

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=28751

...especially ukbobboy01's posts on page 8 are IMO informative.

Try to contact your CC company and get your money back

Latter Grandpa

Thanks a ot for your responses. I'll be disputing the charge with my card company. The site I went to is:

http://www.download-it-free.com/limewire/

and I have no way of contacting them! Beware!

Once again, Thanks.

It just boggles the mind how many sites are out there biting the beat of this site...sorry you got burned, but if it's any consolation, you're not the first. I tell everyone I refer to make sure they come to the official url, if anything other than that pops up, don't f*ck with it. Good luck fighting with your cc company...

The long version
Here in Australia I thought I'd paid for a basic Limewire 4.8.1 download at about $28. After going throught the payment process I saw I was debited about $54. The extra was for some unwanted DVD download facility and an unwanted spyware detector. I received a receipt email from an MP3 download site whose details I unfortunately don't have with me (I'm at work). They are uncontactable, no email address and a US phone no. that is only supposedly active at times that are useless to me in Australia. I did get the basic Limewire 4.8.1 program but that's hardly difficult.
The short version
I reckon I've been scammed. And I didn't realise till I saw some of the comments in this forum. I wonder if I can halt/reverse the payment? Will find out tomorrow morning.
What I'd really like
a. To find out if this uncontactable MP3 company is a geniune portal for Limewire
b. To find some way of contacting the Limewire accounts people in case this was a genuine transaction, and get it amended.

the only true/genuine place to get limewire is from http://www.LimeWire.com/

there is NO other official place to download binary copies of limewire.

The source code for LimeWire is also freely available at http://www.LimeWire.org/ limewire also owns this site and is the only official place to recieve the source code.

LimeWire basic is FREE.
LimeWire PRO costs $18.88 and gives you 6 months of updates. along with genuine PRO technical support via email.

LimeWire basic and pro version are completely free of adware/spyware/malware/crapware etc... you only get the limewire program. best thing is that basic doesnt even have ads. (but it does have a pro ad to remind you that you should go pro.)

there is no other official sites or portals for LimeWire. LimeWire.com is the only true place to download it.

I've finally been able to contact the business that sold me Limewire.
As someone from a country whose timezones are opposite the US it was a frustrating process and I eventually found them open at 3am my time. There is no email contact, only phone contact.
They are at http://www.musicmembersarea.com/index.asp
They have promised to refund the unordered components which brings the price down to about US$23 for "....the full licensed version of the program with absolutely no downloading limits, no limits to search results, no file size limits!....". However it is not Limewire Pro.
So it seems I'm not as burned/scammed as I feared, but just a very bad researcher of deals.

Powerstufff

I hope you are right about not being scammed but seriously, as scammers are notorious liars, I doubt it.

And also: What is this wonderful piece of mysterious software that has no conceivable limits and no name? How could anything so great remain in obscurity? Where’s the beef?

All this, Mr Powerstufff, sound far too good to be true, in fact it sounds like another "scammers" line.

I guess that at 3am you must have been very tired and all this smooth scammers’ line must have sounded very comforting. I think that all you will really get, if anything, is another link to another "free" P2P software, e.g. Bearshare Lite or something similar.

I am a self confessed cynic but I hope your negotiations work out for you.




UK Bob

how did you uninstall it?