• TheAndrewBrown
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    1 year ago

    I agree completely, but in practice I’ve never had trouble stopping a free trial before it charges me. Most I’ve done even let you turn off the auto-renewal immediately after signing up and still let’s you run out the trial.

    I always just set a reminder as soon as I sign up for it to make sure I cancel. Not ideal, but gets the job done.

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      1 year ago

      I got a free membership to a car wash, and they would not let me cancel over the phone. They made made me go to the physical location, which doesn’t even have an indoor part! So, I had to go through the car wash line to talk to an employee, and then didn’t even get to go through the car wash, lol.

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        1 year ago

        Car washes seem particularly aggressive about their memberships. I’ve heard the same thing about gyms.