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Adobe tries to strong-arm me into keeping Creative Cloud

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Re: Adobe tries to strong-arm me into keeping Creative Cloud

#3
That's ugly. I can see trying to entice the customer with discounts etc. to keep them going hoping they let it go on for longer, but the shenanigans about billing cycles, etc. is really not good. I'm guessing Adobe doesn't officially condone this behavior, but they should see to it that this behavior is swiftly defeated by policy so no one in customer retention does this and also continues to work for them.

Re: Adobe tries to strong-arm me into keeping Creative Cloud

#4

  strong-arm:
  . using or characterized by force or violence.
This is clearly a sales representative trying to retain a customer.

  Since today is the billing date, the monthly billing
  has already been started and it is not possible to stop it.
That sounds fair, albeit far from ideal. I mean, the last\first day of a billing period is always a point of contention between the customer and the provider — it was good of Adobe to relinquish the contract instead of persisting. Then again, would've been bad-will to do so anyway.

Re: Adobe tries to strong-arm me into keeping Creative Cloud

#6
I would not call this "strong arming" just a sales consultant trained to try and keep a customer from leaving. This not something unique to Adobe, it happens when you try cancelling a phone plan, when you try switching utility providers and plenty of other things. The fact the customer was available to resolve the situation without subsequent follow-ups to me indicates that Adobe did nothing out of the ordinary here.

And with all due respect, the customer decided to end their plan on the same day the billing period renews which clearly confused the sales consultant and made it harder to cancel the plan. Why leave it to the last minute when you could have done it the day before, week before anytime prior to the renewal date? I am an Adobe Creative Cloud customer and even I am aware of how their billing works.

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