'I ended up paying £500': Your subscription trap stories
Many readers have experienced the ordeal of cancelling a subscription.
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"I emailed them to say, 'Look, you know I've not used this and you've not communicated at all about this'."
— Neha , Other
"I'm usually very careful about tracking and cancelling subscriptions, but Adobe Creative Cloud's approach felt especially unfair and difficult to manage."
— Carmen , Other
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