50 Subscription Scams That Got Exposed By Furious Customers

oh the irony .....

Wish I could add multiple upvotes for this excellent precaution. :)

Happens more often than you think. They hope you you don't have time to call now and forget about it for a while. When you do call, that you don't wanna wait in the queue for half an hour just to save $4, and then when finally talk to them, they try to convince you to continue the subscription. If that fails you'll get an offer with a discount and so you'll start over the whole process again after six months.

Oh, so 'free' is no longer free...cooool. Not maddening at all. :)

That is not a plan. That is a scheme!

I got about 5 months for free from Paramount +. They kept giving me a free month every time I tried to cancel. Then I forgot on the sixth month, and got charged $14.99. But I had no problem canceling after that

This is just wrong. If you paid for the printer and you paid for the ink, you shouldn't have to pay for a subscription to use the ink!

They'll probably put you on hold until you give up

Can I choose both?

We are just supposed to see the word "free" and assume we are getting a good deal.

Illegal in California. They have to allow you to cancel via the same way you signed up.

That’s just dirty!

Someone is sharing your account and restarting it for you 😅

That's outrageous. Surely that must contravene some Trades Description Act (UK here, I don't know what the US equivalent is)? They've got your money, so pony up with the service!

Classic bait and switch. Sadly the case with a lot of tech that depends on a cloud-based service.

As if college isn't expensive enough already.

Please use grammatically correct rude words. It is not "for **** sake" it is "for ****'s sake". ;-)

They have been adding more and more ads over the past year to all of these services. It's getting to be worse than basic cable.

I'm glad I have Google Maps on my phone.

I think they thought were punking certain color-blind folks to think that they just sent a page with nothing on it.

I absolutely do not understand this one

It's not a subscription. It's a one time fee. Still b.s. that they now charge for something that used to be free.

Yahoo for $12.95? Ya-hell naw

Name and shame.

I shouldn't have to talk to an actual person for something like this, the chat feature is how I like to communicate with a human.

That price is a joke. If I see an Apple News story I’m interested in I just Google the headline n usually it’s in a different news site anyways

Mark them as spam.

Don't agree with it, but it is termed "pause" and not unsubscribe or cancel, implying that it will continue at some point.

Yeah....someone didn't read the T&C. Adobe has subscription option that is paid monthly....or they have an annual subscription at a discounted price. You only get that discounted price on the understanding that you will continue to use the service for a full year. That's the terms you agreed to. If you break that agreement, you're going to be charged the difference.

eh, honestly, why would you need to start your car remotely?

I dread the day I have to buy a new car. Right now I'm driving a manual car that is so basic that I have roll down windows. I don't even think I can get another car like the one I have now.

They charged you for the app, with the idea of planned obsolescence coming up

Block them as spam

I hate captcha so much! Especially the garbled letter/number thing that looks like a doctor's handwriting. They should make the picture grid more interesting, like "find the pictures with hot redheads" or something! :)

I think the problem here isn't that it's charged for, it's that it's a subscription. You're not purchasing bulk credits to use, or paying as you go, you're paying a monthly fee no matter how much/little you use it. And we all know how hard it is to cancel subscriptions, or take a break from them when not required

Simple solution - don't buy HP or any other manufacturer doing the same stuff. They'll reconsider if money stops coming.

Well, I always carry my own water with me. And I never go to the gym, So I'm good.

That's a bug they decided to keep!

Tactics like that just make me "Nope" out even if I was intending to sign up for a paid service.

This can't be legal? Don't businesses have to tell you the price of thing BEFORE you buy something?

I'm just shaking my head.

That's disney for you. Greedy money hungry corporation.

There are times that I want to talk to a human, and times that I don't. I don't need to talk to a human for this s**t.

Please tell me there is a decimal point missing.

Subscriptions have usage limits. You need to look carefully at what you are subscribing to.

In Europe it isn't.

This is because the "monthly plan" is paid once a month, the "annual plan" is taken out as 1 payment for the full 12 months. Most companies do this, it encourages more people to splash out upfront and save in the long run, the company gets your money quicker and you're also more likely to forget to cancel before the next 12-month payment is due.

This is utterly outdated and not at all typical. If you pay for the premium, PlayStation subscription you have access to new streaming content immediately. If for some reason, you’re on a lower tier or it has just come out, it takes some time for their servers to catch up with the streams. It also has a lot to do with the game’s servers, NOT PlayStation. To be honest, what we’re seeing here is so incredibly rare that it’s a non-issue. What the real problem is with PlayStation now is that if you want to use online play/multiplayer with saves, you have to subscribe to the premium tier.

Quite clearly they do, as they have documented it. What is likely to be the case is that the "Cancel plan" button is not shown if you are still in the minimum term of the subscription, as there will be an exit fee to pay to cancel it.

I needed to concatenate two PDF files together- it is pretty much impossible to find a free program to do this simple thing. I signed up for multiple 'free' options, including Adobe to try to do it, but for most you could do it in the program but then must pay to save it.

This would infuriate me. Many people (like me) like to keep/collect magazines. You can't do that with 'digital" versions, which you don't actually own, and they can remove access to whenever they feel like it.

Also hard to read

Passive aggressive much. Damn Norton