ASE - All Seeing Eye. Do not re-new subscriptions

[zimmerframe]

I thought I would post this in a public forum as a warning to all potential subscribers.

Last night I received a renewal e-mail from Yahoo, ( who ran ASE) telling me that my annual subscription was now due. It is not a great amount, under £8 per year, so I renewed. An automatic e-mail was sent out with a receipt for payement and a licenec code.

After trying to update the licence, I was told the code was invalid 

I started to do some digging around and it seems that Yahoo bought the ASE licence last year but are now no longer supporting it 

http://www.2404.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3174

But they are still taking peoples money  This must surely be fraudulent? The support page now just links to a general Yahoo FAQ page. The money is collected through a company called SWreg. I sent off an e-mail to them which they forwarded to Yahoo. I had a reply this morning. It is just an automated reply, requesting detail of e-mail address etc.

I will contact my credit card company to see what they suggest. Like I say, its not a great amount but if Yahoo are collecting lots of £8's then that must be fraud!!

Whatever you do, IF YOU USE ASE, DO NOT SUBSCRIBE OR PAY ANY MONEY

[Lance]

Thanks for the warning.

[zimmerframe]

I had an e-mail from Yahoo this morning with new registration code that now seems to work.  However, reading round a lot of different forums, I dont think I will re-register again when it comes up for renewal next year.

I also use X-Fire but found the interface of ASE easier to use and track.  I may look at Q-tracker http://www.qtracker.com/  which looks to have a similar interface to ASE. 

Anywya, ASE is back up and working properly, (for now).