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by perlpimp 1586 days ago
I get a kick out of cancellation of internations social networking site cancel threats:

You still owe €32.85 for your Albatross Membership subscription. Your payment has been overdue since 05 Feb 2020 and we have sent multiple emails to notify you.

Since your Albatross Membership subscription is a legal contract, it can only be terminated by following the proper cancellation procedure. Withholding your payment for a service you subscribed to is not equivalent to cancelling your contract.

If your balance remains unpaid, we’re legally required to follow a debt collection process and additional administrative fees may apply.

2 comments

I don't like doing this, but I've been in your position multiple times. One was my mobile phone plan, I wanted to transfer to another provider, since they had a cheaper contract, so I just let my current contract expire. Turns out, if you don't explicitly cancel, they'll just keep billing you.

So I started receiving billing letters, where the amount just kept going up. It stopped after about 6 months. Never really heard anything about it after that, pretty sure I can't go back to that provider, not that I would want to.

Hahaha for real? My trick to get rid of junk subscriptions is to cancel my card from time to time and resubscribe to things I miss. Can’t remember seeing this before!