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Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by kelnos on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:39PM (#28778836)
I hate talking in the phone to people I don't know so intensely that I have wasted hundreds of dollars on various things because I procrastinated calling to cancel.

This effect is real, and companies know it, and design their cancellation processes to extract extra money from people.

Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by SllX on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @09:18PM (#28780597)
Mate, I mentioned up above that the process by which I cancelled was a chat box that intermittently ate maybe three minutes. Not mentioned was I did it while cooking breakfast.

The best experience would have been no human intervention necessary, but for a process where someone was involved, it was incredibly straightforward. They gave me an offer, I refused it, and nobody had to be a dick about it and no phone calls were made.

Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by gmadsen on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:58AM (#28785088)
Then that part has changed. I had to talk on the phone when I canceled about 8 years ago
Re:Apple requires account deletion within apps in AppStore s... by SllX on Thursday October 07, 2021 @02:48PM (#28790559)
Someone informed me in a different part of the thread that this apparently is the California cancellation experience from the New York Times, which I wasn’t sure of. Like I said above, I was expecting a button or link because that is more akin to how I actually signed up, but there you go.

Unfortunately that leaves the phone option as the remaining option for everyone else.