a little warning to
eMusic trial subscribers:
let's assume you got "50 Freebies" (or a balance of ~25$) and 7 days trial subscription time to spend (to use up) this amount on your desired songs/tracks. please
do not wonder if, when you click on the track download button, the download
does not start but you are redirected to the above page(s) with the plan options and/or preferred plan options. clearly, this
should not happen since we all know good ol' emusic from the very past:
the emusic webpage shows your credits/points/balance on the top corner of the page and when you click to download a track, the balance is deducted by 0.49$, which is the track's monetary value. very simple. Yes, very simple. but things seem to be different these days. emusic's system has been renewed and remodeled. Things are trickier now.
So when you try to download a 0.49$-track with your 25.00$-balance and nothing happens but you are redirected to the plan options page, then ... guess what?
Then the webpage has an (intentional/unintentional) error and i advise you to call emusic customer service (or emusic technical support) to report the situation to them.
The point is, you see a positive balance (e.g. "10.00$") but you
cannot use this balance
during your trial period unless you choose a plan option, which would make you a regular subscriber.
It says "50 FREE" or "25$ FREE" and when newbies sign up for the 7 days FREE TRIAL, they dont want to and they dont expect to spend any money during that week. But many of such newbies end up paying
something to emusic. Once emusic has your credit card number, they charge you at one point (e.g. at some "earlier point than expected"), unexpectedly. Then you call customer service and they try to justify the charge and dont issue a refund but suggest alternative 'solutions': they offer a FREE month, or issue COURTESY CREDITS. In other words, they give you all and everything but your money back.
Again,
here the point is, if you love your music, you are likely to accept their suggested solutions and be delighted about an extra FREE month or a generous amount of COURTESY CREDITS.
Yes, emusic does employ such unfair practices and their 'emusic-never-refunds'-policy seriously s*cks. But hey, they run a business .. they want to keep our money and we want to download more tracks. So everything works out fine in the end anyway!
And let's admit,
Emusic is VERY GENEROUS in issuing courtesy credits or free months and you wont regret spending s
ome (little) money on the thing you love more than your mom... which is your music.
Short,
emusic's unfair practices s*ck but they are very generous.. and in the end you do become an emusic fan and love their service! They win!!
