i miss the days when cancelling a subscription would just stop it charging you but you keep the service until you would have to pay
This is usually how FREE TRIALS work, though, and always has been.
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No it hasn't. Cancelling pretty much always lets you continue until you were due to be billed.
Plus the fact that if you forget to cancel you can contact them to refund. (If they are nice)
Not on free trials….as was said. It is typical if you actually already paid for a month and then cancel to have your subscription active till the end of the cycle.
You're just wrong. I always cancel my subscription the second I start my free trials so I don't forget later.
You could not be more wrong if you tried.
Not when you have to put a credit card number on file. In my experience those trials almost always stay active until time has expired.
This whole thread is full of Apple apologists.
"Free trial"
I miss when Amazon prime would refund you the remainder of the month when you cancelled.... I have no interest in being a prime member and actively avoid buying anything from Amazon. But sometimes I need something I can't find locally ASAP and giving them a quarter or two to have prime for a day was a solid option.
Yeah doing that sounds like a stupid business practice exactly because of what you've described
Paying $15 a month for "free" shipping which is also included in the price point of the products sounds like a stupid practice too. Lots of people doing it though.
I think this is apple being particularly shitty because most services don't do that.
in fact, apple forces other services to not do that but have double standards for themselves
Enshitification
Hey, another thread where someone is desperate to use that word!
It’s the “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” of Lemmy
Not this time, it's completely expected that if you cancel a free trial that you're not interested and don't want it. It is not at all the same as cancelling a subscription that will ride out until the end of the period.
I don't want to check this one but if you need a card on file to get your free subscription like basically everywhere else then this is an attempt to let you forget about the service and charge you at least once. Amazon prime's free trial might require 50 fucking clicks to cancel but it will at least ride out the month.
That is how they work though 🙄
I just canceled my Apple TV and I have access to it until the next billing cycle starts. But you have to actually have a billing cycle in order to have service up until the next one...
I cancelled a service I was getting for free, and they stopped providing the service 😭
Yeah literally what is this post lol.
So many idiots use apple.
Statistically more idiots aren't using Apple.
Who would have thought that cancelling something cancels it? Incredible find, mate.
the idea was to sign up for the free trial, then cancel right away so that you don’t forget to cancel at the end of the trial. previously, in most cases, the trial would run it’s course and you could access it for the duration. Since companies rely on people forgetting to cancel (it’s the only reason anyone even has an apple TV subcription), they’re trying to make this simple life hack more difficult.