We all know, or do we? that signing up for stuff can be a minefield of lies and corporate bullshit..
“When Neha paid for an online CV builder, she thought she was only making a single transaction.
“In order to download the CV, you have to pay. So I did that, and I just thought it was a one-off thing.”
But two years later, she discovered she had been signed up to a monthly subscription with the service, LiveCareer, and over £500 had been taken from her joint account with her husband.”..
Then “When Carmen, from London, took out a free trial of Adobe Creative Cloud, she wanted to subscribe for three months.
But she found herself on an annual contract, with a £250 cancellation penalty.
After a year, she tried to stop it from auto-renewing, but was told she had missed a “very specific” cancellation window, so was locked in for another year.”..
What a load of cunts,it seems these halfwit have never heard of the Direct Debit Guarantee..
And now the dead hand of govt has stepped in “regulate” this nonsense.
Fuck the companies and stop the payments.
The country is rammed full of idiots.
Anyway,
Please sign up for my 3 month trial of Full Oven.
No refunds allowed.
Nominated by Unkle Terry.
That link doesn’t work Unkle T, try this
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/consumers-to-save-around-400-million-every-year-from-government-crackdown-on-costly-subscription-traps
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My Grindr subscription ends up being a pain the arse.
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I say Thomas, do you give Trustpilot reviews for the gentlemen you meet on Grindr?
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Thrustpilot…
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I have been paying for this subscription for nearly forty years, didn’t really mind it in the early years..
But now all I seem to get for my money, is unlimited chimps and sand woʻgs.
Anyone know how I can cancel my payment?
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Become a pıkey?
Morning Bz/all.
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I know what you mean Barry. When we first paid the rates we thought it outrageous that the bill was £70 per annum. The standard complaint was that we paid all that money for which all we received was street lighting and the bins emptied once a week. We now pay well north of £3,000 per annum, the street lights (and even motorway lights!) are switched off at night and the bins are emptied once a fortnight.
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@arf… once a fortnight, you lucky boy ours are ’emptied’ every 3 weeks and normally the Muppets who do it leave the bin as far away from the property as possible after the ‘service’ 🖕
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The good thing about companies is that if they take you to court, even if they win, they can’t claim costs against you.
So cancel any subscriptions.
They will send you threatening emails and perhaps letters.
Tell them that you dispute the amount owed (even if you don’t) and that you are prepared to defend yourself in any proceedings that they want to instigate.
For amounts up to a few grand, it’s doubtful if you will hear from them again.
Good morning!
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The only thing I’d pay a subscription to is ‘Is a Cunt’. But I won’t mention it because I don’t want to give Admin ideas.
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Oh shit
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@geordie….you cunt 😩…🤣
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Full oven Unkle
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No doubt if the airlines start cancelling flights due a shortage of jet fuel they’ll try to fob people off with some sort of “credit note”..
This is where the Consumer Credit Act steps in,always pay for things via credit card as the company is obliged to refund if the airline doesn’t.
They are all cunts.
All the best from the That’s Life team.
Be Careful out there.
Good morning.
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All my dealings with money transactions are done by shoe leather and buses if its too far to walk.
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Biggest cunt in this vein is the ‘auto renew’ … the likes of .. well was gonna say Amazon prime, but it’s every fucking where. A dirty-pool ruse to ‘catch’ folk out into another months/years payout, as per the woman quoted in the nom.
If they had a shred of decency, it would be a simple option upon signing up for whatever .. (a) do you wish to activate auto renew or (b) would you like a renewal alert at the relevant time.
I have *never* seen a site/company offer the polite choice.
Although the husband/wife duo quoted who missed a 20ish quid debit for 24 + months are a pair of dozy cunts too.
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