Local e-commerce subscription (e.g. Amazon prime-like); well, I’m not sure if it counts as cancelling 😅:
For €4 you get 1 month subscription of free shipping for orders above €25. They started a few years ago with like €12 for the annual plan (€15 minimum total order from multiple stores), then increased the price, then it became €15 per store, then increased the minimum order, then increased the price again, etc
I don’t want to encourage the enshittification, so now with the monthly plans I can just buy it when I need it and immediately disable auto-reneweal 😅 They also started adding social features: now the front page has their own implementation of a short videos thing (like TikTok), with influencers showing various products and bad “reviews” 🙄 So I reaaally don’t want to be throwing money into that
so now with the monthly plans I can just buy it when I need it and immediately disable auto-reneweal
I’ve been doing this for Amazon Prime. I shop there as infrequently as I can manage, but sometimes it’s just the best way to get something I need. In those cases, when I check out, they invariably offer me 15 days of Prime for like, $4.99 or something. So I accept the offer. Place the order, then later that day, cancel the Prime subscription. They issue a pro-rated refund, so I end up paying about $0.35 for 2-day shipping on any order.
Local e-commerce subscription (e.g. Amazon prime-like); well, I’m not sure if it counts as cancelling 😅:
For €4 you get 1 month subscription of free shipping for orders above €25. They started a few years ago with like €12 for the annual plan (€15 minimum total order from multiple stores), then increased the price, then it became €15 per store, then increased the minimum order, then increased the price again, etc
I don’t want to encourage the enshittification, so now with the monthly plans I can just buy it when I need it and immediately disable auto-reneweal 😅 They also started adding social features: now the front page has their own implementation of a short videos thing (like TikTok), with influencers showing various products and bad “reviews” 🙄 So I reaaally don’t want to be throwing money into that
I’m paid up for the year on prime but it’s not getting renewed. It’s massively convenient but ethically shit so I’m gonna start making more effort
I’ve been doing this for Amazon Prime. I shop there as infrequently as I can manage, but sometimes it’s just the best way to get something I need. In those cases, when I check out, they invariably offer me 15 days of Prime for like, $4.99 or something. So I accept the offer. Place the order, then later that day, cancel the Prime subscription. They issue a pro-rated refund, so I end up paying about $0.35 for 2-day shipping on any order.