I am trying to calm down but it is very hard because I am full of rage at this point. I was honest and then I was ripped off. On Tuesday, November 01, 2005. I agreed to purchase Bearshare Pro version on the internet. I was very skeptical and now I realize that no one can be trusted when ordering on the internet. I was completely RIPPED OFF! I ordered Bearshare (Reg Version) and included the Pro Version with an additional cost. The Cost was 22.46 $ for Bearshare and the Pro version upgrade (Movie Codec pack) at 14.95 $, this was a total of 37.41 $ that was taken out of my checking account. Then I was prompted to download the Bearshare and it downloaded LIMEWIRE 4.8.1 (The Regular Version) instead of the Bearshare Pro Version. The Limewire is free! I sent a number of letters to Limewire with out any response. I need help quickly, I am so mad and upset with this type of deliberate ways to rip off the consumer. How can they do this and get away with this. The contract said I have 7 days to cancel but limewire has no link email them. Very tricky limeware. They waited until my payment went through then a pop-up screen redirected me to LIMEWIRE Basic not bearshare Pro and downloaded the FREE version and cost me 37.41. anyone have any ideas on how to fix this scam.........

This is not a LW company issue. This is a scam issue. There's too many scam sites out there which you pay & they give you or direct you to the downld page for the free version of the softw such as Bearshare or LW.

See these: 1. Membership? - **WARNING ** BEWARE** - Download p2p Clients ONLY Thru Official Sites, & also this 2. get your $$$ BACK!!! (music members)

Can you remember which site you paid? Here's some Known Scam Sites
You're not the 1st person who has complained they got BS one time & LW the next when they updated. Verdyp makes interesting comments here re: scam sites: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...489#post169489

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Talk with your bank/Credit card company & explain it was a scam. Most have special departments that deal with this type of issue so you can get your money back.

BTW codecs are free. CODECs list and alternate players for Movies And I think if you check your Bearshare version, it might well not be the pro version. LW 4.8.1 has not been officially available for about 6 months. Your BS version might also be an old version.

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Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR