Why you should know: the price hike of Xbox GamePass caused their unsubscribe page to crash. This could lead to someone putting it off and immediately forgetting, then getting charged for the next pass against their wishes. Cutting payment at the source will piss off Xbox and they’ll auto kick you off anyway
Had to do this for a predatory gym membership that would only let me cancel on a certain day of the month at a specific time of the day. Fuck that.
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Just a note that doing this may result in actions being taken against your accounts(s) - especially charge-backs or related actions. A charge back will almost always result in your account being permanently banned and they will ban you if you try to make new ones.
Make sure you research the service you want to cancel and the options you’d like to take to cancel it. If it’s a service you make heavy use of then you need to exercise some caution.
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
The only action taken against your account in case of the charge failing (so not a chargeback) is tou losing access to paid stuff, whatever it may be.
If there’s a free tier, you should be reverted to that. If there isn’t , the account obviously gets suspended entirely.
Cancelling a paid account shouldn’t result in you losing access to otherwise free-tier services.
A chargeback (taking back money after you’ve used a paid service) is a whole different can of wirms, though. Which doesn’t mean you should lose free-tier access in all situations, mind you.
plz1@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How would removing a recurring charge on the processor side result in a chargeback? A chargeback is when you call your processor/card company and tell them to reverse a charge, which results in the charging company also having to pay a fee on top of losing that revenue.
If they can’t charge you in the first place, there is nothing to create a chargeback.
ook@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
I think OP meant when you do a chargeback to them.