> But now I have another years membership at the cost of around 35.00 and there's nothing I can do since I "agreed" to it when I signed up.

Wesley, can't you instruct your credit card company not to pay this charge? Tell them you no longer want to belong to this outfit, that they allow you no means of cancelling your membership (is that legal?) and that you were misled by being given a false impression in the first place. Surely they won't pay something you've instructed them not to, especially as it's not even for concrete goods in your possession but only something abstract. The card company may have heard stories about this site already, from others who have been stiffed in the same way. Since when can a paid service not be cancelled? What, not ever?? Classmates'll cancel it soon enough if they get no payment.

As Sins says, FIGHT! Complain. Air your grievances to your credit card company - I can't see them insisting on paying it and taking anybody else's word over yours. It's your card, and you are their customer, not Assmates.