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What is the last monthly subscription you cancelled? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] Mazesecle@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Local e-commerce subscription (e.g. Amazon prime-like); well, I'm not sure if it counts as cancelling 😅:

For €4 you get 1 month subscription of free shipping for orders above €25. They started a few years ago with like €12 for the annual plan (€15 minimum total order from multiple stores), then increased the price, then it became €15 per store, then increased the minimum order, then increased the price again, etc

I don't want to encourage the enshittification, so now with the monthly plans I can just buy it when I need it and immediately disable auto-reneweal 😅 They also started adding social features: now the front page has their own implementation of a short videos thing (like TikTok), with influencers showing various products and bad "reviews" 🙄 So I reaaally don't want to be throwing money into that

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 day ago

I'm paid up for the year on prime but it's not getting renewed. It's massively convenient but ethically shit so I'm gonna start making more effort

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 points 1 day ago

so now with the monthly plans I can just buy it when I need it and immediately disable auto-reneweal

I've been doing this for Amazon Prime. I shop there as infrequently as I can manage, but sometimes it's just the best way to get something I need. In those cases, when I check out, they invariably offer me 15 days of Prime for like, $4.99 or something. So I accept the offer. Place the order, then later that day, cancel the Prime subscription. They issue a pro-rated refund, so I end up paying about $0.35 for 2-day shipping on any order.