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> At the end of each subscription duration, the subscription will automatically renew until a user chooses to cancel it. What happens when a user dies? I mean,
by redwards510 10y ago
> At the end of each subscription duration, the subscription will automatically renew until a user chooses to cancel it.
What happens when a user dies? I mean, that does happen occasionally. Are the relatives on the hook to somehow email apple the death certificate to clear out their debts five years later? The issue of death on the internet is woefully overlooked. Perhaps there is an opportunity here for a startup to provide "closure services" where they settle all accounts.
- usaphp 10y agoProbably the same as what happens when for example a gym member dies? All your credit cards probably be closed and services won't be able to charge you anymore.
- ProAm 10y agoThen you go to collections
- lazerwalker 10y agoPresumably, when a credit card charge for a renewal of a recurring service fails, they don't send you to collections, they just cancel your account.
- ProAm 10y agoYou'd be surprised, many contracts have an auto-renew clause and you absolutely go to collections. If you are lucky they just cancel you.
- boodm 10y agoThe services are pre-paid. Apple is already in the 'subscription' category with the Apple TV. I subscribe (via the Apple TV) to Hulu and HBO. I remember magazines being the same, as well.
- nasalgoat 10y agoGenerally credit cards are cancelled after you die.
- mnx 10y agoI would assume that it's the CC that is generally closed, and then the charge just fails.