Unjustified billing

powA · #1 11-20-2009, 11:32 PM

i pledged fall of 2008 and the fraternity was suspended and all pledging must stop i paid all my money. they still consider me a pledge because i have no access to scholarships that is offered to a full member. i left the fraternity and disaffliated and yet they are still charging me? is this justified do i have a legal case?

OPhiAGinger · #2 11-21-2009, 03:02 AM

Did you sign a contract of any kind when you pledged?

33girl · #3 11-21-2009, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by powA

i pledged fall of 2008 and the fraternity was suspended and all pledging must stop i paid all my money. they still consider me a pledge because i have no access to scholarships that is offered to a full member. i left the fraternity and disaffliated and yet they are still charging me? is this justified do i have a legal case?

Contact the national headquarters of the fraternity. If you were not initiated, you should receive some sort of refund. If they refuse to do that, you should be allowed to go through the initiation ritual and apply for scholarships. Keeping you a "permanent pledge" could be considered hazing.

Elephant Walk · #4 11-21-2009, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

Contact the national headquarters of the fraternity. If you were not initiated, you should receive some sort of refund.

Uhm... no?

I don't know that any refund is involved if you get kicked out or drop out. The money's spent.

33girl · #5 11-21-2009, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Uhm... no?

I don't know that any refund is involved if you get kicked out or drop out. The money's spent.

He didn't get kicked out, the fraternity as a whole got closed. That's not his fault. At least that's the way I'm reading it. It's kind of illiterate.

littleowl33 · #6 11-21-2009, 12:55 PM

The way I read it, the fraternity was put on probation or something while he was a pledge, so they weren't allowed to initiate him and he dropped. In that case, I don't believe you get your money back. There was another thread about this somewhere, but since the fraternity incurs costs as a result of having him as a pledge, the fees they paid to headquarters and the money they spent on him for pledge programming has been spent and it was paid for out of the dues he paid. If he signed a contract to pay the full amount and he did not pay it all before he dropped, they may be able to keep billing him until it's paid in full. If he didn't sign anything, then I don't know.

However, this was my artistic interpretation of a poorly worded question.

Elephant Walk · #7 11-21-2009, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

He didn't get kicked out, the fraternity as a whole got closed. That's not his fault. At least that's the way I'm reading it. It's kind of illiterate.

Snaps, I'm retarded.

Or he is. It's one long run on sentence. But yeah, you're right on this one.

powA · #8 11-22-2009, 05:18 PM

Thanks for the answer guys that was greatly appreciated. I did not sign anything at all. They just ask for my address and started billing me. I did pay for my pledge semester. Then the next semester they called me a "brother." But I am still a pledge because I can't go into the meetings or participate in brother rituals. On top of that I cannot have any national benefits. I did not get a membership badge and knew nothing an initiate should know about.