Just charge-back your 299$ payment to yahoo catalog if they don't add your site

then will add you just mail them !

 

299 is the reason I have never submitted to them. I have submitted some non-profit sites which dmoz excepted and yahoo did.t. I'm sure as hell not spending 300 bucks on that with no refund....good luck if you do.

 

Banks LOVE it when you lie to them. The feds do too...

Have fun at Leavenworth if they catch you lying about fraudulent charge backs to your credit card.

 

Please lets be realistic people IMHO nobody is going be chased down by the feds or locked up over $299 charge-back

Also to the person who wrote the bank might close your account, that's absolute rubbish unless your bank provides terrible service. You is the bank's customer, not yahoo. They (the bank) don't care what goes on between you and yahoo, just as long you don't do too many charge-backs to catch or warrant their attention, your bank is on your side and you are fine.

I personally never paid $299 for a yahoo directory listing, and never will. Why pay almost 300 dollars for a link placement on a page that will give you almost zero benefit, or nothing extra?
I would not think less of anyone who would pay $299, get rejected, and do a charge-back. If an DP directory owner rejected your site, and kept your money, I can bet 99.9% of you would complain. So why let yahoo get away with stealing your money? Giant companies like yahoo already get away with a lot that no one else would.

I would say the only possible thing that might happen if you do a charge back is that yahoo may blacklist your site, and that seems a bit too extreme for yahoo.

 

I complete disagree, as they never guaranteed a listing. Similar to the above analogy, I would compare purchasing a submission (note - submission, not listing) with a product purchased ‘as-is.’ Are you guaranteed that the product will work? Absolutely not! You clearly understand that the product is being sold ‘as-is’ and there are absolutely no guarantees, so why would you attempt a chargeback when you realize it’s not functional? After all, you were not guaranteed anything. Accordingly, their directory only guarantees a review within seven days and a reason for denial (if rejected) – nothing more. Hence, issuing a chargeback after understanding these terms in their entirety is deception in my opinion. Unless they are unable to provide a review within seven days, there is no justification for a chargeback. In either case, I would never blow away $299 for a possible listing. Under my judgement, your money can be invested towards far more lucrative efforts.

 

One it is illegal and two, you are the one paying up in the first place. Its not as if Yahoo! is ripping you off..

And for 300$ they certainly wont deny your site unless it blatantly violates the terms

 

Another idea:

Go to a restaurant, order and eat the food.

Go back home and think to yourself: "that food was neither as much nor as good as I would like it had been".

Call your credit card and charge back.

 

Well you can use the same strategy with hookers also

 

I just posted about anti-business on the web. The web is powerful and all, but it can't change the basics of business.

Drive into a gas station, charge 299 on your card and "you may or may not get gas" depending on the gas stations review of your car? Does it make any sense?

Online business is still business. Although the digital medium can be copied infinitely, unlike gas, the usual business rules apply.

First of all, if you get nothing, then pay nothing

I disagree with the chargeback scheme though, I think personally the right thing to do is everyone just snob a stupid service like yahoo.

The link is definitely not worth it, and the business model as sane as the people who thought of it during the net bubble(which already bust, but yahoo still has not gotten it just yet and that is why google is eating them with marshmallow).

 

it clearly states its a review fee and doesnot guarantee a listing.

if you agree to that and pay, then you shouldnot chargeback on being rejected...