With subscriptions they become more popular for the day, it is a good chance that you are with at least some companies that are too hard to cancel your services. Fortunately, the legislative relief could be on the way. A bipartisan group of legislators composed of senators, Brian Schhatz, John Thune, Raphael Warnock and John Kennedy, have introduced the subscription cancellation law. When presenting the invoice, the group says they expect it to be easier for consumers to cancel paid subscriptions once their free trial is finished.
Specifically, the proposed law will make it so that companies can not automatically transfer it to a contract that is longer than a month. In addition, there is a clause there that would require platforms to give you a clear notice when it comes to a free trial. But the greatest pain pain the cancellation cancellation law that seeks to remedy is when you can not cancel a service in the same way you registered it. The group said that the draft legal bill would provide companies to provide “a simple means” of canceling a subscription. If you enrolled in an online payment service, companies will not be allowed to force them to call them and then cancel that same subscription (take that, New York Times).
“When people enroll in a free trial, they should not have to jump through the hoops just to cancel their subscription before being charged,” said Senator Schhatz. Given that both democratic and Republican Senators support the bill and members of the House of Representatives plan to introduce peer legislation, there is a decent possibility that the subscription cancellation act could pass.
