Dukasaur wrote:
Absolutely nothing wrong with reminding people. However, even with a reminder there are people who will forget to renew, and that represents a lot of lost revenue. That is why 90% of Internet sites use a subscription system nowadays.
Well, it seems like that anyone that "forgets" to renew would find out about it soon enough when they no longer had premium privileges, and then they would simply renew. The truth seems closer to being that when people are not active enough here to notice when their subscription has lapsed, that we had better quickly bill them, or else lose any opportunity to get any more of their money whatsoever. The real tragic downside is that people might become totally inactive and then not notice that they are continued being billed for perhaps months, or even years. I'm pretty sure that there would be no refunds forthcoming. What's more, it seems like this policy is really specifically targeting these people. In other words, just because you left the site, doesn't mean that we shouldn't continue to use you as a resource to keep the ship afloat.
Rather than just gripe though, I have a suggestion. I always make sure that I am notified of continuing subscriptions, (after having been burned by other sites in the past), by simply paying with paypal, (which you can do here, and I always do when I can), and then immediately after the first payment, simply going into my paypal account and canceling the authorization for continuing payments. That way, sites that have this policy will bill paypal, be refused payment, and immediately send me a message of such and ask for me to renew.
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