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Would changing the subscription to a card that's about the expire work to stop the charges? Or changing it to a "virtual card" number and then canceling the car
by nomagicbullet 5y ago
Would changing the subscription to a card that's about the expire work to stop the charges? Or changing it to a "virtual card" number and then canceling the card?
I'm not advocating for scamming any service provider but in this case I'd have to assume that an invalid payment would automatically cancel the subscription.
- caymanjim 5y agoThis ought to work, and I wouldn't consider it a scam in the case of a subscription service. Payment fails, cancel subscription, everyone's [moderately] happy. If you're using it to get out of services-already-rendered, that's scammy, I suppose, but if it's a service you didn't want and weren't using and would have cancelled if they didn't make it impossible, then screw them. I pay monthly for a Digital Ocean VPS. I get charged at the end of the month, based on my usage, for services already provided. Trying to weasel out of that would be unethical. But the Economist charges me in advance, for an annual subscription, that I would have cancelled if they didn't make it impossible. I have no problem with changing that payment method to a dead card so that the next renewal attempt fails. I don't think that's unethical at all, and because they're doing evil things, I wouldn't feel bad even if they did suffer in some way.
- valenterry 5y agoMaybe, but legally the company could probably force you to pay if they want to follow up on it.