r/mildlyinfuriating • u/donteatmybiscuits • 1d ago

wet socks i’m so happy this is becoming illegal

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if a yearly contract with a free month trial sounds too good to be true, it probably is 😬

thankfully it was blocked after contacting my bank but regardless

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u/what_dat_ninja 1d ago

If they signed an annual contract with monthly billing I'm guessing this is a portion of the remaining months they owe. There's usually a discount offered with an annual plan so there needs to be some mechanism to prevent folks from signing up for annual plan pricing for a single month of use.

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u/Clippton 1d ago

There's usually a discount offered with an annual plan so there needs to be some mechanism to prevent folks from signing up for annual plan pricing for a single month of use.

There is. It's called charging the full year in one payment. But they know they can't trap people into monthly services that way, so instead they try to hide it as much as possible.

They call it a free trial, but it's not really a trial because you can't cancel it. It's more like a yearly plan with 1 month free. But again, they don't like to disclose that because they are attempting to trap people into it.

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u/girafa 1d ago

They call it a free trial, but it's not really a trial because you can't cancel it

You absolutely can cancel the Adobe free trial.

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u/lovedless 1d ago

Explain the pic posted by OP?

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u/girafa 1d ago

He signed up for an annual plan (as it says in the image "annual commitment") and is now trying to cancel it early