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If you send them an email demanding your account be canceled, CC companies will usually let you use that to dispute further charges until your account is actual
by burke 13y ago
If you send them an email demanding your account be canceled, CC companies will usually let you use that to dispute further charges until your account is actually canceled.
- Andrenid 13y agoI tried this now, will see how it goes. They enabled auto-renewal on a domain name I have there that didn't used to have it, and want me to call a US number (i'm not in the US, i'm not paying international charges) to cancel auto renewal. I also requested they close and delete my entire account with them.
- ceejayoz 13y agoHardly necessary if "I do not have an active credit card on file with them"...
- eli 13y agoSure, until they decide you have an overdue balance and send it to collections. (Not suggesting they do this... but if they think you owe them money, they certainly could)
- websitescenes 13y agoThis would be my fear/concern. It's happened between me and another company before.
- jdkuepper 13y agoMaybe if they get enough chargebacks at up to $100 a pop they'll stop trying these things.
- pedalpete 13y agothey'd have to get 18 chargebacks per successful charge in order for them to stop. I'm sure this was a calculated risk.
- mpwn 13y agoThat's the move. I think you ask that all charges be declined for a specific merchant (at least with amex) Call your CC company.
- thrush 13y agoCould you use a bitcoin notary service (like http://www.proofofexistence.com/about http://www.proofofexistence.com/about) and use this evidence to dispute a charge? It seems like this would be more efficient then sending a letter. Seems like this could be more reliable than an easily forged email.
- lucaspiller 13y agoThat doesn't prove that they have received or read it though...
- thrush 13y agoI guess the point I was trying to make is that sending an email, or showing that you've sent an email also doesn't prove that they have received or read it. I think in edge cases, it's probably possible to forge that you've sent an email in the past when in reality, you've sent that email this morning. By using something like the aforementioned service, at least you can prove without a doubt that the message was sent at a specific time, putting the impetus on the receiving party.
- eurleif 13y agoI once had a different service refuse to cancel my account unless I called them. Supposedly it was "for security", but I hadn't even signed up via phone, so that made no sense. I emailed their head of media relations, and said that I was going to publicize that they steal money from people. They apologized and cancelled my account in less than an hour.