#ezpay

EZ Pay is a simple way to pay for your San Francisco Chronicle subscription. Here are just some of the benefits of using EZ Pay:

Hassle-free, automatic payments

Convenient email reminders that alert you seven days ahead of each automatic payment.

EZ Pay eliminates postage, which means you save money!

EZ Pay transactions eliminate paper waste, helping to preserve our environment.

Already reeling from falling stock prices as well as ongoing protests inspired by the 2013 documentary Blackfish, the theme park chain SeaWorld is now facing another lawsuit, this time from a group led by a Los Angeles woman claiming the company defrauds customers by automatically renewing their annual passes without proper notice.

According to a Courthouse News Service report, lead plaintiff Shery Gargir signed up at some unspecified point in the last four years for a two-year pass to SeaWorld San Diego, electing to use the park website's "EZPay" option, which charged her $28.82 up front, then collected $5.66 on a monthly basis for the duration of her two-year agreement.

When the term was up, however, the charges never stopped.

"Defendant failed, and continues to fail, to present the automatic renewal offer terms, or continuous service offer terms, in a clear and conspicuous manner," Gargir argues in her complaint, noting that SeaWorld collected $693 million in subscription revenues in the first three-quarters of 2014 alone, with "approximately 30%" of its overall ticket sales revenue being generated online. Twenty percent of revenues are said to come from within California.

New Post has been published on http://www.therakyatpost.com/business/2015/01/27/airasia-plans-cashless-inflight-sales/

AirAsia plans cashless inflight sales

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 27: 

AirAsia Bhd plans to go fully cashless for all sales of food, beverages and other items on offer while passengers are flying with the aviation group’s aircraft.

Should any passenger not have plastic or just have cash available, ground and cabin crew will cheerfully offer one of three prepaid cards that AirAsia will be promoting exclusively – once the deal announced to Bursa today is completed.

In its Bursa filing, AirAsia said it is subscribing to a 40% stake in Tune Money Sdn Bhd for RM10 million and also signing a commercial agreement towards the joint-offering of prepaid cards, with Tune Money to obtain the necessary approvals from Bank Negara Malaysia for such issuance.

The three cards planned are EZPay Virtual (a hybrid prepaid Mastercard), EZPay Passport (a multi-currency prepaid Mastercard) and BIG prepaid Visa/Mastercard (a 2-in-1 loyalty and payment card which may have a multi-currency wallet).

It isn’t clear how and if the AirAsia Asean Pass unveiled late last year will relate to this Tune Money proposal.

New Ultimate Access (all digital) subscriptions are being set up on EZ Pay without issue. Fantastic!

However, as some of you have noticed, when you attempt to sign-up for (or update) EZ Pay on our Subscriber Services site, no renewal terms show up. That is, the $12.00 per month option is not presented. Since you can't pick an invisible term, you can't submit your information to sign up for EZ Pay!

We're researching this. I can see the error message coming out of our system... We just haven't yet figured out why it's only happening with this one rate ($12/mo). Every other subscription rate we've tested is coming back with one to four renewal terms, whether that term is in weeks, months or years. Very strange!

Up until late this morning, links from within our EZ Pay pre-notification e-mails had Google Analytics parameters appended to them. We failed to notice that these parameters were not playing nice with the SFChronicle.com, so the link to http://www.sfchronicle.com/ultimateaccess would result in an error page.

This automatic appending of analytics parameters has been temporarily disabled. If anyone had been clicking that one particular link and running into problems, well... There's the explanation. Two weeks too late!