Companies Retaining Credit Card Details for Auto-renewals

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@mark_m

What happened to the it’s cheaper online, download only world?

It remains alive and well, so long as you do not auto-renew or purchase directly from the vendor itself.

@karen_seager

after paying you have to go into your account and change the setting to remove the automatic subscription

A relevant thread for this aspect of discussion is

Automatic Renewals

Edit: New readers to the topic can join by clicking here to join in at April 2022. Many organisations and businesses (including Choice!) have subscriptions or memberships that are set to automatically renew when purchased. This is “for our convenience” as the presentations show. Some companies are more up front about this than others. Many people don’t notice, forget, or don’t pay attention to the included automatic renewal T&C whether it be a recurring product shipment, a subscription renew…