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i miss the days when cancelling a subscription would just stop it charging you but you keep the service until you would have to pay

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[-] Veraxus@kbin.social 86 points 2 years ago

This is usually how FREE TRIALS work, though, and always has been.

[-] Carter@feddit.uk 50 points 2 years ago

No it hasn't. Cancelling pretty much always lets you continue until you were due to be billed.

[-] ScoobyDoo27@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Not on free trials….as was said. It is typical if you actually already paid for a month and then cancel to have your subscription active till the end of the cycle.

[-] Carter@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago

You're just wrong. I always cancel my subscription the second I start my free trials so I don't forget later.

[-] Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I haven't done a ton of free trials, but the maybe 5 I have, this is how I did it.

[-] RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

You could not be more wrong if you tried.

[-] nfsu2@feddit.cl 1 points 1 year ago

Plus the fact that if you forget to cancel you can contact them to refund. (If they are nice)

[-] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

Not when you have to put a credit card number on file. In my experience those trials almost always stay active until time has expired.

This whole thread is full of Apple apologists.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Agree.

I generally enjoy Apple's products, I'm very happy with the stuff I have at least. Corporations and companies aren't friends, and they don't deserve to be treated as such just because they make a product you enjoy.

This kind of practise is bullshit through and through. Hell I think signing me up for a subscription as part of having a free trial is BS. I should be able to have a free trial for however long that trial period is, and then get to decide whether or not I want a full subscription. Rescinding the trial because I don't want to subscribe is garbage.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The idea is to make you keep it for as long as possible until you hit the first pay cycle.

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