{"id":36542,"date":"2016-11-30T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/forget-the-annual-fee-money-club-takes-98-payment-as-often-as-it-likes\/"},"modified":"2016-11-30T14:26:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T07:26:01","slug":"forget-the-annual-fee-money-club-takes-98-payment-as-often-as-it-likes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/forget-the-annual-fee-money-club-takes-98-payment-as-often-as-it-likes\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget the \u2018annual\u2019 fee \u2026 Money Club takes \u00a398 payment as often as it likes"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe shopping club debited more than \u00a32,000 from dementia sufferer\u2019s bank account over three yearsI have taken over the financial affairs of an elderly dementia sufferer. In March 2013, he signed up with Money Club and paid an annual fee of \u00a398. At that time he had just started losing his memory and he does not own a computer or have the mental capacity to use the service, so I\u2019m baffled as to how it sold him the membership. Another \u00a398 was taken in March 2014 and since then a further 20 payments have been taken by direct debit totalling \u00a32,148. I have attempted to contact Money Club without success. He should only have been charged three payments of \u00a398 from 2013 to 2016. JS, ManchesterThe Money Club has a habit of cold calling with the offer of a free trial, then committing householders to an annual subscription without them being fully aware of what they are signing up to. Calling itself \u201cthe UK\u2019s premier shopping club\u201d, it runs a discount and cashback website. Several Cash readers have found themselves paying way over the odds as the annual \u00a398 subscription is randomly debited. One reader recently told me an account had been debited 29 times in five years. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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The shopping club debited more than \u00a32,000 from dementia sufferer\u2019s bank account over three yearsI...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-9vo","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":78949,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/money-club-members-pay-thousands-in-fees-after-temporary-glitch\/","url_meta":{"origin":36542,"position":0},"title":"Money Club members pay thousands in fees after \u2018temporary glitch\u2019","date":"February 5, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It claims to be the UK\u2019s premier shopping club \u2013 but, for many, joining has proved costlyIt was when James Schofield took over the financial affairs of a friend with dementia in 2016 he discovered some worrying anomalies. 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