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Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by rectang on Sunday April 15, 2018 @06:25PM (#16845342)
Subscription services are such a pain, because so many companies do their best to trick you with deceptive pricing models and service agreements.

I often don't want to haul out the credit card because it takes so much energy to evaluate a service.

Re:The Price of Free Is Actually Too High by HelloNurse on Monday April 16, 2018 @03:16AM (#16847214)
I deliberately chose to buy ADSL service from the only company I found that instead of billing automatically and renewing the contract implicitly requires a fax with proof of advance payment and eagerly disconnects me if I'm late.