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How many have had a situation whereby you signed on with a program and voluntarily checked it was okay for that company to make automatic withdrawals against the credit card?
Several years ago I signed on with a company offering a music, talk show, news and information service and had them paid with a credit card and agreed to automatic withdrawal from that card. After a couple of years, I sold the vehicle that was assigned this service and notified the company but all attempts to stop automatic withdrawals met with various methods of avoidance.
One might be an email stating they are happy to address the issue without offering means to do so and to not reply to the email while another attempt was via telephone contact. This resulted in getting put into a loop and dragged from one person to another for an hour, or more, depending on how much punishment I wanted for the day, and never getting someone who would help. Or, if I was diligent, get into the loop and manage to get someone who said they could help but never seemed to direct my call to the right person or left me hanging, waiting for someone who was supposed, the magic word here is, supposed, to help, aid or assist.
After numerous futile attempts I contacted the credit card company and was told they could not prevent automatic withdrawals. I learned, by asking various questions of the individual I spoke with, the only way to end automatic withdrawals was to notify the credit card company the card had been lost, believed stolen, or to cancel the card.
I recently had a similar episode and this time, noted the company making the automatic withdrawal had two addresses, both electronic, one specifically declaring it was for registering and cancelling. When using it, the message came back it could not be found despite it being clicked on in their website. Next was an email address offered to contact them and after clicking on that email address contact them via email, a message came back, can not contact or some other thing. It, apparently, was a disguise to have them look as if they wanted to help but their avenues did not provide access to even ask questions.
So, beware of what you sign up for and if you do, read carefully how to stop automatic withdrawals when a company begins playing dodge ball with you. As to the service I had installed in my vehicle, in relaying this story to others found each who had tried to cancel the service had similar or worse horror stories to tell about those efforts with that company.
I put this out there as an advisory for others who might get sucked into the rabbit hole. Reliable companies do not use avoidance tactics to prevent subscribers from cancelling their automatic withdrawal service.
Several years ago I signed on with a company offering a music, talk show, news and information service and had them paid with a credit card and agreed to automatic withdrawal from that card. After a couple of years, I sold the vehicle that was assigned this service and notified the company but all attempts to stop automatic withdrawals met with various methods of avoidance.
One might be an email stating they are happy to address the issue without offering means to do so and to not reply to the email while another attempt was via telephone contact. This resulted in getting put into a loop and dragged from one person to another for an hour, or more, depending on how much punishment I wanted for the day, and never getting someone who would help. Or, if I was diligent, get into the loop and manage to get someone who said they could help but never seemed to direct my call to the right person or left me hanging, waiting for someone who was supposed, the magic word here is, supposed, to help, aid or assist.
After numerous futile attempts I contacted the credit card company and was told they could not prevent automatic withdrawals. I learned, by asking various questions of the individual I spoke with, the only way to end automatic withdrawals was to notify the credit card company the card had been lost, believed stolen, or to cancel the card.
I recently had a similar episode and this time, noted the company making the automatic withdrawal had two addresses, both electronic, one specifically declaring it was for registering and cancelling. When using it, the message came back it could not be found despite it being clicked on in their website. Next was an email address offered to contact them and after clicking on that email address contact them via email, a message came back, can not contact or some other thing. It, apparently, was a disguise to have them look as if they wanted to help but their avenues did not provide access to even ask questions.
So, beware of what you sign up for and if you do, read carefully how to stop automatic withdrawals when a company begins playing dodge ball with you. As to the service I had installed in my vehicle, in relaying this story to others found each who had tried to cancel the service had similar or worse horror stories to tell about those efforts with that company.
I put this out there as an advisory for others who might get sucked into the rabbit hole. Reliable companies do not use avoidance tactics to prevent subscribers from cancelling their automatic withdrawal service.
