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I can't advocate privacy.com enough for these shenanigans! Issuing a credit card for each vendor - with spend caps or close the card whenever. If I can't find

• nikanj 4y ago
  They are allowed to send your bills to collection. They probably won’t, but don’t count on it. Not paying your bills is not a legally protected way of cancelling.
  • core-utility 4y ago
    On fixed-cost memberships, I'd love to see legislation forcing the hand to say that payments are for future services, not past, and that failure to pay means being cut off from future services until payment is made. This way these companies couldn't send you to collections since you're paid up for everything you've "consumed".
  • mdp2021 4y ago
    > Not paying your bills is not a legally protected way of cancelling In normal relations, when you pay you get the goods or service, and when you do not pay you do not get it, without presumptions. If you buy a carrot - or more relevantly, newspapers - everything but the cash is redundant: not everyone would accept to subscribe to a different model, if not on very exceptional services.