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

    • Carter@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

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

      • nfsu2@feddit.cl
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        9 months ago

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

      • ScoobyDoo27@lemm.ee
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        1 year 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.

    • TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world
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      1 year 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.

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        1 year 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
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      1 year ago

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