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From: Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How to cancel a subscription for good?
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 20:01:41 -0000 (UTC)
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Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> wrote:
> 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.
> 
Has anybody seen an Apple announcement about this false charge fiasco in
Hungary? Because I haven’t. It was only reported by the Hungarian Central
Bank and media. Strange.