Sounds like a design oversight. File it as an issue if it hasn't been already.
On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 12:55:31 PM UTC-8, Nathan wrote: > > Due to changes in business conditions and agreements with third parties, I > need to phase out a yearly subscription. > > That is, no new people will be allowed to buy. No one will be allowed to > renew. A year from now, zero people will own the subscription. > > I would think I could do this by going to the developer console and > marking the subscription sku as Inactive, Deprecated, or something of that > nature. > > But come to find out I can't modify a subscription item in any way. A year > from now, therefore, these people will still autorenew. > > Therefore, no matter how strongly I get the word out, there will *never* > be zero subscribers. Even if my app were no longer on Google Play, I think > Google would still automatically charge people a year from now. And the > terms for subscription require that I support them as long as there is at > least one subscriber or my developer account will be suspended. > > If I have to, I will find all 300 subscribers and manually cancel their > subscription so it won't renew. > > Beware, developers. Do not start any subscription that you cannot support > for the rest of *eternity*. Be prepared, even if there is one person left > and it will cost you $10,000 a year to maintain. Think twice about any > subscription that has dependencies on a third party, however reputable or > trustable. In fact, make sure that all subscriptions cost you nothing and > are as meaningless as possible. > > Nathan > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
