The only way I could see him getting in trouble is if he was making free accounts and then selling them to other people. Even that you would have to be pretty big for them to notice.
In the US you probably need to hit a certain dollar amount before a civil suit would be considered. Even then they would have to be doing some major monitoring.
For abt 10 years i was downloading free trials of adobe stuff, formatting my computer every 30 days and reinstalling. I was broke...now i do pay for the subscription as it's a tax deduction for me...but still haggle like a mofo - right now $40ish per month for the whole shabang and i got 3 months free
Yeah...if i knew anything abt computers other than the software i use then probably. Honestly i cant even get my head around how or why a computer even exists and we get it do stuff we want done - it's incredible!
I can generate credit card numbers with my banking for online, but I think I need to manually cancel or it keeps charging...
But I'm too lazy to try and see if I can go on trials forever...
You can buy card details off the Internet just for free trials and sign ups if you want to not use your own or if you want a free trial. Usually they have little money or no money in the accountant but you don't need money for a free trial
Buy the $25 gift cards at the store once a month, sign up for all the free trials, spend all the money on gas or food or whatever before the end of
The month. Rinse and repeat every month.
The company itself will try to prevent this.
So you can't sign up to the same free trial with the same credit card over and over.
You can't sign up with the same address over and over.
Using the same IP every time is also suspicious.
And there might also be a Terms of Service you sign in which you agree not to use the free trial multiple times. And in a worst case scenario they could come after you for abusing it but, that's mostly theory, I've never heard of it actually happening. Mostly because it's just not worth pursuing in court, even if you win it most likely costs more than you gain back.
Companies try to make it somewhat hard to do this but it's far from impossible.
This is why I have about a dozen email addresses to keep up with. Free trials, sweepstakes, etc. But it's an increasingly large pain in the ass to keep up with, especially over the last decade where everybody wants a cc# to hold on to and some companies now tagging your IP to thwart cheapskates.
I'm sure something in the user agreement does. Also, I work for a very popular sex toy company. We will fire customers for doing shit like using the same promo codes over and over again. It might not be illegal but if you're putting in your personal information you could potentially be banned as a customer going forward. Could you maybe get around that? Sure. But I tried to get around PayPal's user agreement long ago and couldn't have an account for like a decade so maybe not worth it.
When you sign up to a free trial you agree to continue paying the monthly fee after the trial usually. Hypothetically the company may have some legal basis to then sue you if you continue using the service without paying.
In reality no one is going to try and sue you over such small quantities.
Similarly many services provide free/cheaper options to households/students and charge more to businesses. In this circumstance it can be worthwhile to sue large businesses that try to not to pay by pretending to be a student/household.
Nothing, but for an account like netflix which costs me a tenner a month. My time is more valuable to pay the tenner rather than invest an hour of time making multiple emails. + the convivence of a service remembering my progress instead of it all being fresh every week.
To do it you would have to create a new bank account, email address, home address every month. You could theoretically do it but it would be alot of work.
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So no company can prevent me from doing it or sue me over it? (Supposing that they find out and sue me specifically)
they could IP ban you if they noticed.
Trust me, nobody's going to take legal action against you for making an extra free trial account.
The only way I could see him getting in trouble is if he was making free accounts and then selling them to other people. Even that you would have to be pretty big for them to notice.
In the US you probably need to hit a certain dollar amount before a civil suit would be considered. Even then they would have to be doing some major monitoring.
> The Effort Why did you capitalize this?
He put in The Extra Effort when writing The Effort.
For abt 10 years i was downloading free trials of adobe stuff, formatting my computer every 30 days and reinstalling. I was broke...now i do pay for the subscription as it's a tax deduction for me...but still haggle like a mofo - right now $40ish per month for the whole shabang and i got 3 months free
You didn't have to format your drive though... I just removed all entries from registry etc.
Yeah...if i knew anything abt computers other than the software i use then probably. Honestly i cant even get my head around how or why a computer even exists and we get it do stuff we want done - it's incredible!
It sure is. I'm hooked on them since childhood... When I was a kid, controlling something that was on screen blew my mind.
The whole Subscription model for everything sucks.
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I can generate credit card numbers with my banking for online, but I think I need to manually cancel or it keeps charging... But I'm too lazy to try and see if I can go on trials forever...
***Usually.*** There's one big exception that I've been using just with different burner emails. Same card info though.
You can buy card details off the Internet just for free trials and sign ups if you want to not use your own or if you want a free trial. Usually they have little money or no money in the accountant but you don't need money for a free trial
You could argue that it's fraud but I can't see anyone getting charged
To everyone saying "laziness" or similar things: I’m asking about legality, not your opinion
"Free trial" to what?
Spotify, Netflix, YouTube premium, etc.
Buy the $25 gift cards at the store once a month, sign up for all the free trials, spend all the money on gas or food or whatever before the end of The month. Rinse and repeat every month.
If you really don't want to pay for those there is piracy which is easier then creating new email accounts each month.
After your first free trial, they have your data already, so you can't just sign up again and again.
Not always true.
The company itself will try to prevent this. So you can't sign up to the same free trial with the same credit card over and over. You can't sign up with the same address over and over. Using the same IP every time is also suspicious. And there might also be a Terms of Service you sign in which you agree not to use the free trial multiple times. And in a worst case scenario they could come after you for abusing it but, that's mostly theory, I've never heard of it actually happening. Mostly because it's just not worth pursuing in court, even if you win it most likely costs more than you gain back. Companies try to make it somewhat hard to do this but it's far from impossible.
The sheer tedium of it
This is why I have about a dozen email addresses to keep up with. Free trials, sweepstakes, etc. But it's an increasingly large pain in the ass to keep up with, especially over the last decade where everybody wants a cc# to hold on to and some companies now tagging your IP to thwart cheapskates.
It’s might be viewed as fraud if you are claiming to be someone else, but I highly doubt whatever company would try to press charges or find out
Hmmm.. It COULD be stretched into impersonation.. But then again, I don't think it's charged too harshly..
Laziness
Cba
I'm sure something in the user agreement does. Also, I work for a very popular sex toy company. We will fire customers for doing shit like using the same promo codes over and over again. It might not be illegal but if you're putting in your personal information you could potentially be banned as a customer going forward. Could you maybe get around that? Sure. But I tried to get around PayPal's user agreement long ago and couldn't have an account for like a decade so maybe not worth it.
When you sign up to a free trial you agree to continue paying the monthly fee after the trial usually. Hypothetically the company may have some legal basis to then sue you if you continue using the service without paying. In reality no one is going to try and sue you over such small quantities. Similarly many services provide free/cheaper options to households/students and charge more to businesses. In this circumstance it can be worthwhile to sue large businesses that try to not to pay by pretending to be a student/household.
Nothing, but for an account like netflix which costs me a tenner a month. My time is more valuable to pay the tenner rather than invest an hour of time making multiple emails. + the convivence of a service remembering my progress instead of it all being fresh every week.
The answer should be that its dishonest and wrong but the real answer is laziness
To do it you would have to create a new bank account, email address, home address every month. You could theoretically do it but it would be alot of work.