unless there is a specific reason you think they screwed up - like they say they want to cancel, but hit the wrong button or something.
Or you know they’re dead and can’t cancel.
Otherwise it just inconveniences them if they want it, since you cancelled it out from under them.
Bad business, and probably rude unless there is a concrete reason you have to believe otherwise.
Because I don't want to take people's money that I haven't earned. Why do I want to scam people? Blaming them doesn't make it less of a scam.
> unless there is a concrete reason you have to believe otherwise
Here we agree. You need a concrete reason. For example, if your service streams movies and they haven't streamed one in a year, that might be a concrete reason. Sometimes it's ambiguous, and then send them an email.
Assuming you aren’t making it hard to cancel or anything.
And doing all this work in the middle of a high inflation environment…. Do you have a death wish?
> Do you have a death wish?
Huh? I've never needed to scam people to earn a living. I bet you don't need to either.
> high inflation environment
Maybe where you live?
So someone paying for a service they signed up for, even if they aren't using it is being scammed.
And we aren't ALL in a high inflation environment compared to a few years ago?
Beautiful.
Tell you what. I’ll let my customers decide when they want to stop paying me money, and I’ll focus on producing a more valuable product for them in the mean time.
And you can tell your customers (you have some right?) to stop paying you all you want for whatever reason you want to.
If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Get this: In this jurisdiction, as an employer I have to legally continue to pay for the services of labor for another two weeks (at minimum, more if the worker has been around for a while) after I no longer want the service. That's thousands of dollars, possibly even tens of thousands of dollars, for a service I don't want.
Curiously, I have never yet met anyone who has politely declined or offered to pay it back. I suppose all workers are scammers by nature.
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Or do you also ask for handouts everywhere you go?
Taking free money is (in this case) someone you know handing you $100 and saying ‘merry Christmas’ or whatever.
Sure, you could throw it on the ground and say ‘f you’.
But these are existing customers who already give you money and are presumably happy with your service.
The OP is about billions being spent by people who are not happy but haven't unsubscribed, so that seems like a bad presumption.
Or is taking the standard deduction morally reprehensible too?
The OP says they forgot to unsubscribe, which certainly implies they aren't 'happy' with it.
The article is a typical editorial. And behind a paywall, near as I can tell.
In this case it’s more like taking the standard deduction.
It reminds me of the donation drives of Wikipedia who are a microcosm of all this tension. Wikipedia is a genuinely important service that needs to keep going, but boy their marketing manipulative and cringy as hell.