I'm a graphic designer in the arts district and every spring when i do my big purge i realize I'm still paying for subscriptions i forgot about. The old meal kit service, a couple productivity apps, and that streaming bundle I thought I canceled months ago are still draining my account. Each one hides the cancel button or forces you into a chat that loops forever then says call this number. Wasted almost four hours last weekend and only got two canceled. Saw some tools that charge $15-40 per cancellation or monthly. Has anyone found something that actually finishes the whole process for you?
Spring cleaning turning into subscription cancellation hell again?
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Posted by Main_Lengthiness_606
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This sounds like one of those posts where the OP later edits to advertise some company, which was the entire point of the post to begin with.
In case it’s not, every time you subscribe, write it down on a spreadsheet/document. Unsubscribe through whatever avenues available to you and try not to subscribe to services that make it difficult to cancel in the future (you can research). Don’t give so much information to some third party when you can solve this issue on your own and avoid it entirely in the future.
Send each company a notification that you are cancelling the subscription effective immediately, and instruct your bank not to accept the direct debits any longer.
You get a box of food every week at your doorstep every week and forget about it?
just open your bank account every once and a while
It’s called a budget.
This is simple shit.
You should never have a subscription you don’t know about for longer than 1 month because you’re an adult and you budget.