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Re:A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not... by sgarman on Sunday December 07, 2014 @11:21PM (#8714897)
If anything these X box a month services pop up so frequently I'm surprised there is not a startup to help people make their own x box a month companies.
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Re:A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not... by nols on Sunday December 07, 2014 @11:44PM (#8714956)
You shouldn't be surprised, it does exist.

http://www.subbly.co/

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Re:A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not... by jeremymcanally on Sunday December 07, 2014 @11:43PM (#8714951)
There is actually, and it's nice! http://cratejoy.com
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Re:A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not... by username223 on Monday December 08, 2014 @12:47AM (#8715104)
Hook that into http://bride.ru and you've got a winner!

More seriously, automating the process of harvesting credit card numbers and signing them up for monthly billing, then taking a cut, is evil genius.

Even more seriously, the sex-trade people were way ahead on this, by happily offering canceling customers refund checks with mind-blowingly dirty names on them to discourage deposit.

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