Re:“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
by belval on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @10:02AM
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Can confirm that The Economist requires you to chat with a human to cancel. The representative will basically try to get you a "new" deal to prevent cancellation and the whole process took about 5 minutes (with me just saying no to everything).
Still better than the Globe and Mail though, had to call and talk with them for 10 minutes while they tried to sell me a different subscription.
What is true is that, with a lot of magazines, to get the best rate you have to select an autorenew option and then they make it difficult to cancel. (That may be the case with The Economist; don't know.) In general, you're better off just paying a bit more and passing on autorenew unless you're sure you want to keep on subscribing.