Excellent advice joyce. I am with you! To many scam artists out there. Bunny
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 16, 2018, at 4:07 PM, Rune Mattsson <rune.matts...@gmail.com<mailto:rune.matts...@gmail.com>> wrote: I should never give my card number for such a “free” trial. More and more companies including Microsoft and Norton promises free trial but they demand my credit card number. I have a special card for all internet shopping, this card I can load with money as required. And, if I sometimes miss to load it I will have a very polite mail that they did not find money in my account. And, if I then like them and want to continue I can transfer money to my “dummy card" 2018-02-16 18:59 GMT+01:00 Joyce Herzog <joyce.her...@gmail.com<mailto:joyce.her...@gmail.com>>: After trial and error, I no longer accept Free Trials that require my credit card. On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 11:52 AM, John Cardinal <jfcardi...@gmail.com<mailto:jfcardi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Pauline, Your post indicates that MyHeritage uses subtle techniques to try and part you from your money when you aren't really interested in the product they are pushing. Those techniques are often called "dark patterns". Free services that convert into paid subscriptions are a common example. A free trial that simply ends without a subscription is fine. A free trial that automatically becomes a paid subscription is converting trials into sales under the guise of making it "easier for the customer". That's a dark pattern, albeit a common one. Of course, it's worse when terminating the trial before it converts is difficult or time-consuming: sign-up is easy, one-click, but cancelling is tedious, perhaps via telephone where you wait 30 minutes to get an agent, and then the agent tries to convince you not to cancel. Consumers should be very careful of _every_ interaction with companies that employ dark practices. John -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- Researching Drinkwater surname all over the world, any time, any place, but especially Descendants and Ancestors of Paul Drinkwater, born 1789 in Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, England. GOONS #5057 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/drinkwater.html http://drinkwater.one-name.net/index.php -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ -- Rune Mattsson Sjödalstorget 9 12 tr SE-141 47 HUDDINGE Sweden Phone + 46 (0) 8 608 16 84 Mobile + 46 (0) 73 600 20 54 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com<mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
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