We are being harassed by the International Association of Professional Writers and Editors, also known as IAPWE. We signed up for memberships a few years ago, then cancelled after our first year. We found no benefit to the membership. Now, despite cancelling everything we could find on PayPal, speaking with the credit card servicer who can do nothing, and emailing IAPWE over and over and over again, they continue to charge us.

We both subscribed using PayPal, and we’ve no clue how they got our card details to charge us directly! I’m going to assume they can see all those details in the PayPal dashboard, which is frightening. The image above is a receipt from earlier this year, but the charges have not stopped.

This has been going on for over a year now, and we can’t stop it. We’ve considered cancelling the card, which is provided to my wife by her professional union, if this continues. Our emails to them used to get professional responses claiming they would stop, but now they don’t even bother to respond, even to threats of legal action. At least cancelling the PayPal accounts has stopped that vector.

I am posting this as both a warning against considering membership with IAPWE as well as a reminder of the almost complete lack of control we have over our money. It’s utterly maddening. Be careful, please. It’s not the amount they’re trying to take, but the principal. If they do this to enough unsuspecting people, they could be making a lot of free money if it turns out they are indeed a scam operation. #capitalism #PSA #moneymatters #personalfinance #writing #writers