Re: Retailers Pushing

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

Do you "join" everything your daughter asks you to join?

Didn't she ask you to join some book club and you had issues with the food being served at the restaurant meeting place?

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
As I have been "internet shopping" yesterday and today, I am having regret over ever signing up for subscriptions.

I am the only one to blame for signing up in the first place, but trying to cancel them now has landed me in a situation of more "red tape" when trying to cancel.

I'm making the assumption that retailers (or, in my case, online companies, seem to all be joining in the chant of "do not let your customers cancel ANYTHING"!

It feels like they are desperate and using more "tricks" to hold onto our money?

@LTT1

So ... the moral of the story is ... don't subscribe to ANYTHING.

JMO, of course.

shoekitty · ‎03-10-2010

@Nightowlz wrote:
@LTT1

It makes no difference today.
I have been to sites I have never been to before looking at products. I don't have an account with these places. Next thing I know I'm receiving emails from them??? I didn't sign up asking for them.
Yesterday I received 20 spam emails in my spam folder? That's never happened before?

@Nightowlz I am very careful. I am one to not even take a 15 or 20% discount to sign up for emails and texts. I would rather pay regular price than put up with their emails. Once I did and I was getting 10 emails and texts a day about something. As far as subscriptions for Amazon and such I have one or two, I would up cancelling as they come too often or not often enough. Just order when I need. As far as meal subscriptions I won't do that. I have family members who have and regretted it. Right now, some website I went to, and it had to be a regular shopping site, sold my name to Lord knows who, and I was getting 20-32 spams a day.

“sometimes you have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on”….Bob Dylan

Tori3569 · ‎06-27-2010

I think the OP is talking about product subscriptions not email.

For emails you don't want, the easiest thing is to block the sender. Don't waste your time trying to unsubscribe.

For product subscriptions, such as a beauty product for which you get a deep discount on the first shipment and then a smaller discount on subsequent shipments, the process is different for each one.

Some offer cancel at any time, which is relatively straightforward and is managed through the account you have on their website.

If you purchased through social media or paid via Applepay or another shortcut, you may not have an account on their website.

In that case, you should be able to use your order number (from the confirmation email) and either use it online or perhaps have to call.

I have several subscriptions, including Musely and Tovala. They're pretty easy to manage without all the hoops.

Tori3569 · ‎06-27-2010

@mrshckynut wrote:
@LTT1 subscription is a very vague term to me i order online from several vendors but my only "subscription(?)" is belonging to amazon prime
I can change that by not paying for it and that's it.

mrshckynut

That's not a subscription, it's a membership.

We rescue cats · ‎01-25-2023

My browser of choice is DUCK, DUCK, GO, between that and an Ad Blocker I don't feel like we are being followed.

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Lynn-Critter Lover!
(especially cats!)

Tinkrbl44 · ‎08-23-2010

@We rescue cats wrote:
My browser of choice is DUCK, DUCK, GO, between that and an Ad Blocker I don't feel like we are being followed.

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@We rescue cats @LTT1

LOVE Duck Duck Go.

BTW ... did you know that ANYTHING you ever look up via Google is out there FOREVER.

Google keeps it and can access it if, for instance, a Prosecutor wanted to know what kinds of thing a person was looking at before they allegedly committed a crime.

People get convicted in part because of their Google searches all the time!

elated · ‎06-09-2010

@Nightowlz wrote:
@LTT1

It makes no difference today.
I have been to sites I have never been to before looking at products. I don't have an account with these places. Next thing I know I'm receiving emails from them??? I didn't sign up asking for them.
Yesterday I received 20 spam emails in my spam folder? That's never happened before?

If you go down to the end of the email, you will find in very small print the word unsubscribe. Tap that and it will take you off their email list. I do that all the time.