Well, hell, if you could get what you wanted with just $3, it would hardly be a successful business model for them, now, would it? $36, though, that's a nice chunk of change, especially if you're only going to hit their servers a few times.

Wish I'd thought of that racket.

Yep. I would log in to their server once, for under 5 minutes, and they would have made 36 bucks.

but maybe, just maybe, in that years' time you'd think of more people you'd like to get in touch with that you haven't seen in 10 years, ya know?

There is about an 80% chance that your friend you are looking for is using one of the more popular email services....have you tried just doing a search in them yet?

or....Find 5 other people that wouldnt mind getting in touch with some of their classmates from that site and split the cost with them for one subscription.....

Oh, by the way.....i just made up that 80% stat cause it sounded good. It's not based on any type of fact. I seem to do that about 64% of the time.

What I love is the great thinker who was in charge of planning my high school's 10 year reunion this year who actually thought simply listing it on classmates.com would be enough to get the word out. And, of course, classmates requires you to pay to get this information, too.

Maybe I'll have to talk to my high school about setting up an alumni section on their website where we alums can voluntarily enter our contact info.

It's funny you mentioned that, Kevin. Right after our reunion someone started a site for people in our class to keep in touch. It was up for a couple of months and then her account closed. I've been thinking about starting an alumni site to replace it.

Is there anyway to STOP the insidious, idiotic, popup CLASSMATE ads?

They won't enforce there own rules.Got one guy puting in obits for people that graduated before we were born.They say own words hes taking right out newspaper obit most of time some time from a friend?????

Did anybody else see add in Dec classmates about getting $50.00 rebates from Amazon?????

Classmates is suffering from marketing imagination. The Idea is cool. There is no guarenty thet the targeted addressee is correct. I know my e-crap changed many times...
I'd pay $5 for a latest info on so-in-so for 4 contacts.
they'd make more $ that way than this shit. F*ck a million members. I'm a "member" and all they on me is old info and my e-mail to bother.
I would discredit any old-friend who would go gold. It's just not woth it. They have a data- base now that they've got our interest in but their greed/marketing dis-skills have turned them into a surfing experience and junk e-mail hell that I'd rather referr to Scottish Warriers.
...Please let these guys know that you actually graduated and your not dumb enough to buy ther're crap. They don't know how to market what they have. For $2 or $3 bucks all of us would be members for just a few contacts. ...They're idots. ..Just say NO. .....GREED......

I'm willing to give classmates.com a chance....joined...just can no longer view the web site....did they change something?

I'm willing to give classmates.com a chance....joined...just can no longer view the web site....did they change something?

In my opinion Classmates isn't worth joining - here's what I have posted on other sites.

Pros
Getting info on classmates & meeting wonderful new people

Cons
Violates it's own TOS & allows harassment & fraud to run ramped on their site

The Bottom Line
Good luck - have fun and enjoy life that is the most important thing in life and the Internet, but don't waste your money on Classmates.com

Full Review
Hi everyone -

I'm the reunion planner for my class. I was a gold member for 2 years prior to that it was FREE for me to send emails etc. and was GREAT when people replied to me I had their email addresses. I didn't mind paying a small fee but they said the $20 I paid was for a life time membership that fee lasted 1 year. The next year it was $30 I think. As I said as a reunion planner the service was great and did give me a lot of useful advice. Luckily my school has it own private website that is paid for by donations from the alumni so I don't need to send mails via Classmates.com

After 9-11 I found their interest groups on their site as I live in one of the areas that was attacked on that day and have friends that were directly effected therefore it deeply effected me. That board was great when I first found it - very supportive for those of us that were hurting. Gave us a place to vent. I've met some WONDERFUL people in real life because of that board. BUT Classmates.com's membercare did not enforce their own terms of service so now there are people there that take pleasure in forming fake identities and spending their money to join the service simply to harass others that have a better life then they do. About half the identities on the 9-11 board, the relationship board and the proms board are fake. It's truly sad and certainly not worth the $39 they are now charging for membership. I suggest keeping your money and using switchboard.com or whitepages.com to look for your missing friends - join the site for free and edit your profile so that you don't receive the junk mail. The only thing that you won't stop getting is how many new people have joined your class.

Recommended
No

Here's what classmates.com did to me: after I declined to renew my membership, they still had my credit card number, and renewed it themselves, what a bunch of JERKS, you will NOT be getting paid, the credit card company is in my favor, and I turned in a dispute for an unauthorized charge, they should change their name to: CLASSMATES.DORK,everyone better look at their credit card statements when they get them... CLASSMATES. COM is ate up with the dumb ass!!!

Has anyone figured out how to get them to stop spamming us!?

How do you remove your self from classmates.com?? I can't seem too!

How do you remove your self from classmates.com?? I can't seem too!

Those who know me...know exactly how "I" feel about CM, they allllllll suck donkeys!!!!

PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR SITE TOTALLY .
Your Auto Delete seems not to work
as of 2-17 I have quit classmates .com
Dregsl@AOL.com