WeWork sells Meetup

Re:WeWork sells Meetup by TheAdamist on Monday March 30, 2020 @06:09PM (#22732733)

You can't cancel a meetup subscription online, you have to submit a ticket.

You can start a subscription online however.

Another sign of a failed company, trying to hold onto those who want to leave.

Seems like its chargeback time.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by siquick on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:40PM (#22733838)

Not a great solution, but VPN into California and it should show a cancellation option.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by nickcox on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:09PM (#22734597)

Seriously? What possible reason could there be for limiting this to Californians?

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by joeconway on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:25AM (#22734929)

It's a Californian law mandating that subscriptions that can be started online, must be cancellable online. https://www.androidauthority.com/california-online-subscript...

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by wccrawford on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:17AM (#22737184)

The question wasn't "Why does CA get this?"

The question was "Why doesn't everyone get this, if CA has it?"

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by marcosdumay on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:46AM (#22737466)

Because they want it to be hard.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by baddox on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:28AM (#22735558)

AMC’s movie ticket subscription service requires waiting for and chatting with an ostensibly human support agent in order to cancel a subscription. If that’s a real loophole in the CA law then they should obviously patch it.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by blaser-waffle on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:08PM (#22739724)

Run it deliberately until someone complains, and then make a pro forma change. Run that cycle until someone actually passes a law or takes you to court in some fashion.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by dhosek on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:12PM (#22734613)

Dark patterns. Make it hard to cancel unless legally compelled otherwise.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by ryanSrich on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:43AM (#22735188)

CCPA

EDIT: I guess it's not CCPA, but a separate law https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by manigandham on Monday March 30, 2020 @09:24PM (#22734099)

I recommend using virtual credit cards or https://privacy.com/

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by aeoanx on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:29PM (#22734696)

If only it wasn't US only

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by johnmoonyy on Monday March 30, 2020 @06:37PM (#22732918)

This is a big pet peeve of mine. Just seems desperate when it's twist and turns to cancel and get 1 extra month. E.g gyms

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by goatinaboat on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:22AM (#22735120)

You can't cancel a meetup subscription online, you have to submit a ticket. You can start a subscription online however. Another sign of a failed company, trying to hold onto those who want to leave.

The New York Times is the same. Rather than bothering I simply cancelled it on the PayPal side.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by distances on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:39AM (#22735171)

Does this get you off the hook in the US? I'm pretty sure I'd be soon talking with a collections agency if I did only that with my subscriptions.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by goatinaboat on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:00AM (#22735461)

They send you a series of increasingly emotionally-manipulative emails then give up. It’s a monthly subscription after all, you stop paying then they disable you access to paid content. They perfectly well know they’re doing something shady by making it easy to sign up but hard to cancel. As others have pointed out that’s illegal in some jurisdictions. They won’t want to press it.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by Cederfjard on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:56AM (#22736439)

And it doesn't affect your credit?

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by goatinaboat on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:26AM (#22736550)

Why would it? It’s not a loan.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by quickthrowman on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @01:02AM (#22735054)

The Wall Street Journal makes you call a phone number to cancel a subscription. It’s the reason I’ve never subscribed.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by inapis on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @06:48AM (#22747401)

Set the address to CA and the option to cancel pops up.

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Re:WeWork sells Meetup by hkmurakami on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:06AM (#22734845)

I remember one of those cheap wine subscription companies required a phone call.

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