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I 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.
Use 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.
I would say it's unethical as long as the seller doesn't consent to it. But legal. I see it as similar to pirating it, though piracy is illegal as well. Are the seller's terms unethical? Perhaps. I don't think that justifies being unethical in response, though. Arguably the PayPal trick is more ethical because they decide it's not worth chasing the cancellation fee.
With pirating, you're continuing to use it without paying.
Now that the free trial is over, Adobe keeps trying to charge my card for the monthly fee every 2-3 days or so. I'm not sure if my Acrobat license will get disabled and everything will be dropped, or if my account will get sent to collections, or what.
Eager to find out.
AFAIK you only pay a cancellation fee if you want to cancel a subscription early (E.g. you booked a yearly plan and then cancel it a few months before renewal), which of course is legal. At some point there was the hack that you could switch your subscription to a offer they throw at you when you try to cancel, and then that counted as a new subscription, which you could cancel within the first 14 days. Not sure if t…
A few months ago it worked for me. I am in EU so IIRC they are legally required to let you cancel your contract for 14 days if you entered into it remotely (phone, internet etc). It seems like changing subscription plan counts as getting a new contract with Adobe.
Piracy is once again the better choice.
Use 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.
You switch plans and quit the new one…