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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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