Then in the future, depending on your needs, use alternative applications, like many of the excellent Affinity programs such as Affinity Photo (vs Adobe Photoshop), Affinity Designer (vs Adobe Illustrator), etc. that are an affordable one-time purchase. Likewise Luma Fusion video editor (on iPad) instead of Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut.
Ask HN: How to cancel Adobe CC subscription without paying a “cancellation fee”?
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Pay the cancellation fee and learn from it, to read the terms and conditions before you buy.
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#12I meant to add that Luma Fusion also runs on the M1/M2 Mac as well as iPad.
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#13I pay via PayPal then cancel the billing subscription. Privacy.com is how my partner got out of it.
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#14I pay via PayPal then cancel the billing subscription. Privacy.com is how my partner got out of it.
They can, in theory, send you to collections and ding your credit for that.
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#15Fuck Adobe.
It triggered the auto-renew while on vacation for a year, I cancelled within a week later, and was forced to pay a massive cancellation fee. One of the worst companies I've interacted with, will never use their products again.
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#16I recently switched to Corel because they still sell perpetual licenses.
On physical media.
I won’t say it is as good or better than Adobe.
Only that it is good enough for me at this time.
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#17Use privacy.com and give them a temporary credit card. Close the card when you want to cancel. Is this ethical? You're not using the software anymore, so you're not getting something for nothing. Rather, you're avoiding paying something for nothing.
But he received a discount on his monthly rate when he agreed to subscribe for a year at a time.
There is a power imbalance between him & a giant multinational corporation, and he's just rectified it.
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#18Thanks for the heads up. I just checked, and apparently I got scammed into an annual plan by a customer support agent without realizing it. Even better, they don't appear to have a way for you to delete your old credit card information, even after adding a new one. Time to finally look for Adobe alternatives.
Re: Ask HN: How to cancel Adobe CC subscription without paying a “cancellation fee”?
#19Pay it. Then tweet @ them how disgruntled you are that you have to pay it. Worked for a buddy of mine.
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#20Privacy.com and freeze the card