Amazon Prime is particularly heinous about using dark patterns to confound users into risking forgetting but ultimately you’ve already paid for the month, year
I can confirm this to also be the case with most streaming giants plus the less-giant Shutter
Not all. Some end your access as soon as you cancel, normally they let this be known while cancelling, but not all of them so that.
Any specific service you’ve seen doing this?
I’ve not experimented as much with cloud providers or non-American companies so not yet sure if this is a byproduct of industry practice, market pressures on public companies or legal requirements and counter examples could help
I should also point out the good: many of them (like Netflix) are very open about how cancelation works once one goes to that section of their site
All subscriptions through Apple do this.
The upside is if you cancel a yearly subscription after just one day you get basically all your money back.
every subscription I’ve had through Apple ends at the end of the billing cycle, not immediately.
and yes if you contact them right away they’ll refund you. had this happen a couple of times when I was a day off on when I thought the subscription was renewing.
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If they don’t prorate a refund then they’re stealing from you. Obviously if this is a trial they can cancel immediately if you haven’t paid but otherwise it’s theft.
I agree, but good luck getting anywhere with it if they choose to not refund you.
That’s what charge backs are for.