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From: Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to cancel a subscription for good?
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 21:22:27 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> wrote:
>> Alan Browne <singularity@blackhole.org> wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-28 13:02, Cameo wrote:
>>>> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I had an MLS Season subscription last year with automatic renewal option.
>>>>>> That expired last February. So I assumed it was for good, as I wanted. But
>>>>>> suddenly I’ve noticed today, that it was renewed and I was charged for it
>>>>>> again. I have been trying to unsubscribe from it, but I could not find a
>>>>>> way to do it. In the Settings I can easily do Renewal, but not
>>>>>> cancellation, even after googling for the way to do it. Has anybody here
>>>>>> managed to do it, and how?
>>>>> 
>>>>> What has this got to do with iphones?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Contact the provider of the service.
>>>>> 
>>>> It is an Apple TV subscription service.
>>> 
>>> If so, it should be in your iOS subscriptions.
>>> 
>>> Go into your iPhone Apple ID | Subscriptions.
>>> 
>>> But now that it renewed may be difficult to cancel.
>>> 
>>> I set reminders to myself to cancel things weeks before they can 
>>> possibly renew.
>>> 
>>> Services like this should have an opt-in for renewal.
>>> 
>> I did what you suggest, but the Subscription screen has only a Renew
>> button. Had I known this, I would not have subscribed to it in the first
>> place. 
> 
> If there's only a "renew" option then there is no current subscription via
> Apple. You must have bought it via a different method. 
> 
No, I did not use different method and there was no family member involved.
But luckily I just discovered today in my bank account that the amount was
refunded. So, I assume I also was a victim of the bank’s malfunction
described in the article I posted here earlier. I wonder if it was due to
some sophisticated hacker attack against the bank.