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Do they also give a prorated refund? Otherwise that seems to be blatant theft
What money did you give Uber in advance? Why would you have a balance needing to be refunded if you have not taken a ride?
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Don't Subscribe So Casually
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#22Nowadays I am adopting the "Mom Strategy for Subscriptions (TM)": Eat what is in your plate before asking for more stuff.
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#23I would go a step further, cancel as soon as you subscribe. It's still valid for a month because you've paid for it! If you ever need to use the service again just re-subscribe (and re-cancel) In fact, what is stopping you from cancelling all your subscriptions right now? You can always buy back in when you like
Recently cancelled something early so I won’t forget, they didn’t send my shipment even though I paid for it. They said I cancelled, tried to work with support but given after a point. So yeah, not all companies do that.
Did you receive your money back?
If not, time for a charge back with your card provider.
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#24Kinda' ironic posting a service that promotes two types of casual subscriptions, inbox clutter, and "micro transactions"
Especially when one considers how friggin difficult this service makes it to cancel a (paid) subscription.
yeah. would love other recommendations for similar services that handle it better if you have any
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#25A very simple handling:
Buy a domain. Get Proton, or Apple, or any other custom-domain email service.
Setup catch-all incoming mail.
Every merchant receives an email like merchantname@donotwriteto.me
Then you can either sort those out, or if they are malicious and not deleting you from your email lists, you can block the incoming traffic on that email.
This way you still can verify your email, comm stays private and you can have your own peace of mind, but you don't have to keep the spam in your primary inbox.
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Recently cancelled something early so I won’t forget, they didn’t send my shipment even though I paid for it. They said I cancelled, tried to work with support but given after a point. So yeah, not all companies do that.
Did you receive your money back? If not, time for a charge back with your card provider.
Charge back usually never works… at least in my case the provider never actually did it because the seller was in good standing.
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Did you receive your money back? If not, time for a charge back with your card provider.
Charge back usually never works… at least in my case the provider never actually did it because the seller was in good standing.
Counterpoint: I've done 3 and all went through without drama.
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#28I would go a step further, cancel as soon as you subscribe. It's still valid for a month because you've paid for it! If you ever need to use the service again just re-subscribe (and re-cancel) In fact, what is stopping you from cancelling all your subscriptions right now? You can always buy back in when you like
I saw some small business owner complain about this behavior on twitter some time ago and he mentioned he only saw non-Americans do this and it made him really mad or something and he didn't provide the service and banned them or something. Funnily enough I do think this happens so sometimes I cancel instantly and sometimes deliberately wait until there are a few days left on the subscription exactly out of paranoia…
Why would they salt their own field it's hard to understand
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#29A very simple handling: Buy a domain. Get Proton, or Apple, or any other custom-domain email service. Setup catch-all incoming mail. Every merchant receives an email like merchantname@donotwriteto.me Then you can either sort those out, or if they are malicious and not deleting you from your email lists, you can block the incoming traffic on that email. This way you still can verify your email, comm stays private and…
Highly recommend this, I no longer need any spam filtering following this approach.
My old Gmail would be loaded with spam and the filter would screw up and mislabel legitimate mail. Now, no spam at all.
It also helps when your email is involved in a data breach which is becoming the norm now.
Although be prepared for awkward in person interactions when a business wants your email. Everything from "no, your email silly not mine" to "I own this business name you can't have it in your email address"
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Did you receive your money back? If not, time for a charge back with your card provider.
Charge back usually never works… at least in my case the provider never actually did it because the seller was in good standing.
With what credit card provider?
I've done it multiple times when a vendor wasn't behaving fairly and it always went through.
I don't recommend doing it to a vendor you plan to have business with again in the future as they might ban you (eg food delivery apps)