How to stop subscriptions you never ordered

What always works for me if I haven’t been charged yet I simply write “cancel” on the front of the bill and mail it back in the envelope provided as if it were a payment and I usually don’t ever hear from them again.

Great information! Thank you.

I had it happen once when I ordered something on line. It was charged to my credit card. I called the credit card company and was told that sometimes when you order on line a subscription is added to the order. The credit card canceled the payment and I had no more problem with it.

Well, you make it sound easy and most of us have followed these suggestions. The problem is that sometimes it goes on for months before the problem is solved. The underside is that many of these companies turn over the account to a collection agency quickly…these agencies are vultures. They care not what the story is. And, then your credit file is hit. It’s all a rabbit hole and seriously upsetting!

I was done the same way. I didn't order the book it came in the mail the company says it unsuccessfully contacted me 14 times trying to get the money. They never did that at all and they were threatening me with collection agency I did the best thing I contacted both the FTC and Ohio Attorney Generals Office. The company's answer was to the Attorney General s Office was according to our records the book was returned. Sorry for the inconvenience it was over 4 months since I have sent the book back. Getting a threatening letter is no joke I feel companies who do business like this should answer to what they're doing I would give out the company name but I don't want to be held accountable but I will say this it is bad business practices and something should be done

Thank you for this message because this is happening to me and it's frustrating because I'm getting bills for subscriptions Ieither canceled or didn't order.

A few years back I was getting magazines from a company for a specified amount. All of a sudden I was getting billed for $199.00 per month. I couldn't afford that. I was in contact with the magazine company when a nice woman called me and helped me get out of the program. After I was no longer enrolled and the problem was taken care of, a lawyer from a collection agency called me for back payments that I did not owe. He wouldn't believe me and put a red flag on my name which is still there. He did this illegally. The big problem is he only identified as "law offices" which tells me nothing on how to sue him or get my good name back. I want this man in prison for this I wonder how many other good citizens he did this to.

I have had to cancel my credit card and get a new number and card to stop this. Lately QVC said I ordered something on "Easy Pay" they subtracted 25 dollars on my Paypal Account. I put a stop to that and got no refund. They still say I owe them 100 dollars for something but they won't say what.

Your warning and etc., is blessing for the general public like me. Keep up this great work!

Or seriously the state attorney office will not handle anything like this unless it's over 10k so that's a joke .if and any they won't do any thing to handle it .

Attorney General does not handle little cases like this

Not all credit card allow you to dispute charges online. And be careful when filing a chargeback by phone, especially if it's not for the full amount of the charge. I've had chargebacks be unsuccessful because the person I spoke to on the phone misheard the amount that I was disputing

I have done everything suggested but the problem I have had was the companies are extremely sneaky & will have different names for that same company so therefore they will keep trying & sometimes they succeed. It’s frustrating having to dispute 3 or 4 times for the same company but thankfully I was able to get the charge reversed & the company finally quit charging.

My worst nightmare came from "USAGrants,COM, maybe the same as USAGrants.ORG, never could find out. I never had any need, want, mistaken, contact with those scammers, yet they bothered me for years with "renewed automatically". They never had my credit card info, but they kept sending me their bills. I wrote them, reported them to FTC, and AG AZ. AG WA. Sent my Credit Cards warnings. Took years but USAGrants.(somebody) left me alone.

I am glad to I can just write cancel on my bill, for the magazine !

Great information! Thank you!

This is a great article to post. During the pandemic I went online to speak to a Physician. That company charged my insurnace for the visit, and also signed me up for a MOTHNLY FEE (auto charge) I didnt know about until my card had a hold on it for fraudulent acttivity. That triggered the company to send me a notice that "This months charge did not go thru, please provide another pay method" Then the company INSISTED this was REQUIRED to use the service in the 1st place. WHO JOINS A CLUB TO SEE ONLINE DRS? I went round and round with them until I told the card co to stop ALL PAYMENTS and REFUND ANY they already took from me. They are SNEAKY. That takes medical practice down a VERY DARK PATH and its UNETHICAL. The MDS were good, I doubt they are aware of this business model or they would NEVER participate in such fraudulent practices

Important information. Thank you.

I asked for free Covid tests, once, by e-mail, in December 2022 when the government announced a program. I got them promptly, but now I'm getting more of them all the time--twice so far this month. Nobody needs dozens of Covid tests! I have not been billed, but I'm afraid they're ripping off Medicare or the CDC.

I´m sorry, I sent my comment in Spanish. Thanks for your information.

My problem is that someone unknown has signed us up for so far 28 magazines and Bradford Exchange packages. Did find out that the return address they are using simple says Richmond,VA 230 I've been contacting each one, explaining and canceling. The first one seems to have been from the end of May but this last one is date stamped June 29.

I have had many magazines delivered to me and I never ordered any of them! What a scam

I need help. I subscribed to a website to watch the Superbowl. I bought the one day package that day and all. Now, in August, I got charged 265$ out of nowhere in my old debit card, and I got the amount substracted from my new debit card. They're charging me for 3 years subscription when I only bought a one day pass to watch the Superbowl final game.

This does not work. Currently our laws allow these charges by including them in a law designed to protect companies from purchasers who cancel a payment for a product already sent or delivered, after a purchase was made.
Only it should not be covered or allowed.
Subscriptions are for a services that has not yet been received by the consumer.
Putting the onus on the consumer to cancel subscriptions is ridiculous.
If the credit card companies allowed the consumer to cancel the pmt. the company delivering the service, simply doesn’t deliver it.
It costs them nothing.
Currently this law makes consumers read the 900 page disclaimers, they don’t understand ..written by teams of lawyers in order to cancel the unwanted subscription and jump through ridiculous amount of hoops to cancel. All the company has to do is avoid the consumer and they collect hundreds of dollars for services they never have to fulfill because the person doesn’t want it?
They just have to have cancel buttons that don’t work oops
No phone numbers published, and if you do call…they send you from dept to dept…accidentally??? hanging up the call multiple times wasting hours and hours hoping you will give up.
If you can click a button, they add small print saying with out a phone call(no number) or email within 24 hrs this cancellation won’t be cancelled and many many more crazy tactics.
They don’t even have to legally notify you that they are going to charge you. If they did I would have cancelled my credit card.

I once logged 18 hrs. And they still wouldn’t. I finally got a persons full name and location by accident …looked up their home address and told them I was getting on a plane and would be on their porch in the morning. They finally agreed to accept my cancel and refund my money?

Please please do something about this. Make laws to stop legitimate companies from stealing from consumers. Make credit companies allow consumers to cancel auto pmt. Unless a product has been sent or received.

I got a charge from , Just answer,!! For 46.00 dollars , Does Hughesnet charge to answer questions about installing fusion internet . ?

I didn’t order this and have requested a refund of $ 49 and 3$.33 charges
Please refund my bank account

I want to cancel my subscription to Spekadol they have taken over $80 dollars from My account I have no idea who they are

Amount of R3per day is deducted I don't know who and why

I'm having problems with being billed for something I never subscribed to, and this is the third time and these are all USA subscriptions. How do I stop this?

They are taking money from my cash app without my permission

I have call and request not to receive these magazines. I never placed order for this please stops putting these magazines in my yard. Again I never placed a order for this....

I think this should be against the law for Amazon to start subscriptions you don’t order when placing an order with them