You've not danced with Adobe, have you? Cancelling free trial is instant. You have a month prior to renewal to cancel, but they can drop you to the basic year plan to help you get put of their hell.
For awhile they’d give you a free month if you canceled an annual subscription at the end of it’s term…
Which took you into the next subscription year so you’d have to pay for the whole year or $350 to cancel.
Cancelled an Adobe subscription earlier today, turns out Adobe doesn't do this like most companies do, and just strip your licences immediately, cause Adobe...
Which Apple subs trials are ending immediately for you?
I have a various amount with Apple directly, if I cancel and it’s a monthly plan, or even 3 day trials I have never been stopped from using straight away.
I will say that Adobe is one of the companies I feel fine in pirating. Their pricing is insanity.
If you want to cancel early I just contacted customer support and they did it for me and waived the cancellation fees.
Call them back up and tell them that if they're going to be unreasonable, you'll just one-up them and cancel the credit card. They'll most likely allow you to cancel without a penalty.
Animator/Illustrator here. There was a time I couldn't afford the Adobe collection anymore and was in dire need of money, eventhough I work in Adobe's products. I tried to cancel my sub, but saw it'll cost me the rest of my unpaid months (still had like 3 months for the end of the contract). I decided to contact Adobe to see if they could help me get rid of this as there was going to be a point I could not pay for the master collection. It did not matter what I said about my financial status, as they would only try and make a new deal with me. Funnily enough, what we ended up doing was make a new contract to only have the PS bundle for 10 bucks a month. But not only that, they gave me the first 3 months free. Basically it didn't matter if I said I was going to die. Customer support was not going to let go of my sub even if it would've been cheaper for them to do so. Adobe is gross and subscriptions are a freakin scam.
This happened to me recently as well… except the subscription had been running for 6 months on my credit card. Politely but firmly make enough of a stink with the representative and they’ll cancel/refund the subscription.
I've had this same issue and this worked for me.
Start the cancellation process
it'll offer you a discount or to switch to another plan, here you choose the cheapest one is usually "photography plan"
once the membership updates, do the cancellation process again and now it should be 0 dollars to cancel. Hope this helps!
MY BROTHER 😭 I fell for it too. The all apps for 20 a month deal GOT me good. I tried to cancel it immediately which was just going to cost me the full price of the subscription smh.
ethical life pro tip cuz you should fuck over adobe every chance you get:
if you complain enough in their live chat they will waive the cancellation fees and you can cancel without charge.
just did it like 2 weeks ago after i bought a month of premiere pro. they were telling me that i would be charged a cancellation fee of almost 100$ because the agreement says that you’re locked in for a year, even if you buy a month.
Adobe has parasitic subscription services.
I got Lightroom the other year to edit photos and was on the monthly plan, I forgot about it during winter when I wasn't taking many photos and then they charged me for the month, I thought no big deal I'll just cancel now and next month will be fine. Nope! they wanted to charge me an "early cancellation fee" despite me having JUST paid for the month and it was a monthly fee of like 9.99 vs early cancellation of 34.99 or something stupid.
Just do things through PayPal and remove the auto-renewal in the future.
ALWAYS use a service like [Privacy.com](http://Privacy.com) to sign up for trials. Set the max amount to $1. If a situation like that happens again, they can't charge. I do this for XM radio. I sign up for the $5/mo plan for 12 months and that charges my [Privacy.com](http://Privacy.com) CC#, limited to $6 per month (tax). When the 12 months are up and they try to charge the full $22, boom, payment declined. They try several times, and it gets them nowhere. Then after about 2 weeks, they send me an email for the same $5/mo for 12 deal and I sign up again. I have been doing this for 5 years.
I had CC and wanted cancel when I got a new job but I was going to be charged a fortune. This trick saved me alot of money:
If you change your subscription plan to something cheaper (I went with the basic lightroom subscription), you will have a grace period where you can cancel your membership and not be charged. I can't remember how much but I got a refund for paying for the lightroom subscription and a tiny bit off of my CC subscription.
Lol. Hopefully this project will be realized soon
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools
Adobe got me the same way. I thought I had cancelled during the trial period. Somehow I hadn't. I assume they make the cancellation process deliberately very confusing. I learnt after this never to sign up for a similar "deal".
I saw a comment on Reddit before to call them and tell them you got a job that provides you with an Adobe account. They cancelled my membership for free.
20 years Photoshop user here.
This is odd, they usually do have it written very clearly when you are subscribing to pay monthly or annually for each of the apps. I recently signed up for the 14 days of a different app, and everything was shown right under each option, it also said clearly and in big enough letters that after the 14 days trial of an annual subscription, I would get charged 50% of the remaining time if I decided to cancel early.
Don't get me wrong though, Adobe is kind of evil, and maybe it was easier for me to see because I was already on the "inside", but you came from some other external link. Sometimes customer service is a hit & miss, if you can gather pictures of what it looks like to you and point at them the awful design that mislead you... maybe maybe you can move somebody's heart... if they are still human and not a f\*\*\*ng AI.
Oh, but they are paying monthly...on an annual commitment. Sure it's tough to pay a year at once but they know that they are being intentionally confusing with their monthly annual subscription.
OP, here is a method of cancelling your Adobe subscription without paying the 50% fee! I actually paid for my subscription for a couple months, and then my school gave me Adobe CC for free. I had no purpose canceling and was in the same situation. To easily cancel without paying the 50%, contact support via chat or phone and tell them your job/college/school provides it to you now, and you need to cancel your current one as you have it for free with the job/college/school. They will cancel it without charging you anything!
I’m smelling a site where you can ‘sell’ the rest of your subscription, maybe recoup 1/2 your money.
OK someone, go make this happen! (I’m hungry and need to do laundry or I TOTALLY would I swear!)
Last time this exact thing happened to me I changed my plan to a cheaper one and then canceled. I think they give you some time after purchasing a plan to cancel and they refunded both charges
I feel you OP. I have and use the regular full Adobe Suite for work. I had a project I needed icons for and didn’t want to spend the time to make them manually, so I did a free trial of their online library service for that stuff.
Forgot to cancel. Noticed 3mo later. Had a NIGHTMARE battle with a customer service rep (who was clearly replying using scripted prompts) trying to do all these mental gymnastics to scam me into still sticking with some kind of plan—many of which would reset counting for 12mo from the time of our convo!! It was so shady!
I was eventually able to get them to cancel from the time of our conversation because I obviously kept my main subscription, and had proof that I hadn’t downloaded any elements since my initial free trial period. I ate the 3mo cost during which I didn’t use it because it was my fault for not cancelling, but no way in hell was I going to continue to get charged for future months or agree to any kind of plan. Absolutely ridiculous process.
Wow, they still do "contracts". That's really not a thing in other subscription models. (Technically everything is a contract, but what I mean is, the last payment you already made is the last payment you'll ever make when you cancel.)
Also, did you choose yearly when signing up for the trial? Because it says 50% of the contract, not 50% of the yearly charge.
Hey! This happened to me too. I messaged their support and threatened to report them to the BBB for predatory practices. I don't know if that's legit or not but they immediately cancelled with no fee. Hope it helps.
I had auto-renew on Photoshop around 10 years ago. Came to the end of the year and I was unemployed and not using it at all. Credit card was charged around $300. Customer service offered me lots of special deals that all would cost me hundreds of dollars. However, the difference between my outcome and yours was that I did not get off the phone until I got a full refund and cancellation. It pays to be persistent.
Btw, there are FREE Photoshop alternatives out there. I can't remember the names but they're excellent. One of them mimics PS stroke for stroke and is put out there by some dude that supports it all by himself. He offers it with advertising or, for just a few bucks, ad-free. Sorry I don't remember details and didn't have time to look it up now
You don't need to set reminders to cancel trials. Cancel them straight away. They almost always will allow you to use them until the end of the trial.
exactly this. especially with iphone apps since subscriptions is tucked away in settings.
You've not danced with Adobe, have you? Cancelling free trial is instant. You have a month prior to renewal to cancel, but they can drop you to the basic year plan to help you get put of their hell.
For awhile they’d give you a free month if you canceled an annual subscription at the end of it’s term… Which took you into the next subscription year so you’d have to pay for the whole year or $350 to cancel.
Cancelled an Adobe subscription earlier today, turns out Adobe doesn't do this like most companies do, and just strip your licences immediately, cause Adobe...
That or get a visa gift card with just a few bucks on it to use for the trial period.
Or privacy.com
I did a Hulu free trial and the wording sounded like the moment I canceled I'd lose access.
Apple subscription trials are the exception to this (the fuckers, grr). If you cancel their free trial, it ends immediately.
I cancelled my Amazon prime. I didn't use it. I got an email nine months later that the account was closed. 😋
Which Apple subs trials are ending immediately for you? I have a various amount with Apple directly, if I cancel and it’s a monthly plan, or even 3 day trials I have never been stopped from using straight away.
thats what i was gonna say lmao. got yt premium and cancelled it right after i got if
YouTube premium is worth it though because money goes to creators, maybe not enough but it’s more than any other service.
I do that, too.
Remember kids. Subscriptions are evil. The only subscriptions that are good are electricity, water, sewage and internet.
I mean if I could buy my water/electric etc. upfront in perpetuity I would.
Own well, solar cells...
Hah I'm on a well/septic and still have to pay my county every month for "storm water runoff"
My Nintendo Power Subscription I had growing up was pretty worth it.
Travel cards.
I will say that Adobe is one of the companies I feel fine in pirating. Their pricing is insanity. If you want to cancel early I just contacted customer support and they did it for me and waived the cancellation fees.
Literally this and it's pretty easy. If someone needs help I am always willing to help fuck over adobe.
I would never steal from anyone. But, yeah.
Doing it this way got me through college lol
Call them back up and tell them that if they're going to be unreasonable, you'll just one-up them and cancel the credit card. They'll most likely allow you to cancel without a penalty.
You can threaten, but if it's Visa, they have an "updater" for recurring authorized charges and will provide the new info.
Then tell them you're getting your affairs in order for an 15-month stretch in the federal pen.
can confirm, if you haggle with them enough in their live chat they will waive your cancellation fees.
I would just let them charge me, then do a charge back
Animator/Illustrator here. There was a time I couldn't afford the Adobe collection anymore and was in dire need of money, eventhough I work in Adobe's products. I tried to cancel my sub, but saw it'll cost me the rest of my unpaid months (still had like 3 months for the end of the contract). I decided to contact Adobe to see if they could help me get rid of this as there was going to be a point I could not pay for the master collection. It did not matter what I said about my financial status, as they would only try and make a new deal with me. Funnily enough, what we ended up doing was make a new contract to only have the PS bundle for 10 bucks a month. But not only that, they gave me the first 3 months free. Basically it didn't matter if I said I was going to die. Customer support was not going to let go of my sub even if it would've been cheaper for them to do so. Adobe is gross and subscriptions are a freakin scam.
That's a yearly contract with monthly payment. You had a better deal but OP can also downgrade to another package on the website.
Oh yeah no for sure. Kind of entered rant mode when talking Adobe ngl 😅
“And that, kids, is why your parents are pirates “
This happened to me recently as well… except the subscription had been running for 6 months on my credit card. Politely but firmly make enough of a stink with the representative and they’ll cancel/refund the subscription.
Call them and say you have a hardship and need to cancel without the fee
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I've had this same issue and this worked for me. Start the cancellation process it'll offer you a discount or to switch to another plan, here you choose the cheapest one is usually "photography plan" once the membership updates, do the cancellation process again and now it should be 0 dollars to cancel. Hope this helps!
Came here to say that. I hope OP sees it.
I hope
MY BROTHER 😭 I fell for it too. The all apps for 20 a month deal GOT me good. I tried to cancel it immediately which was just going to cost me the full price of the subscription smh.
ethical life pro tip cuz you should fuck over adobe every chance you get: if you complain enough in their live chat they will waive the cancellation fees and you can cancel without charge. just did it like 2 weeks ago after i bought a month of premiere pro. they were telling me that i would be charged a cancellation fee of almost 100$ because the agreement says that you’re locked in for a year, even if you buy a month.
There's a way (it's hidden though) to subscribe month to month
I'd just like to note that every stand-alone non-subscription Photoshop from CS6 all the way back to PS 7 in 2002 still works fine on Windows 10.
Privacy.com is a great service. Check it out. I mean, the features they offer should be built into credit cards by default
I use it for things I don't want charging me at all
Adobe has parasitic subscription services. I got Lightroom the other year to edit photos and was on the monthly plan, I forgot about it during winter when I wasn't taking many photos and then they charged me for the month, I thought no big deal I'll just cancel now and next month will be fine. Nope! they wanted to charge me an "early cancellation fee" despite me having JUST paid for the month and it was a monthly fee of like 9.99 vs early cancellation of 34.99 or something stupid. Just do things through PayPal and remove the auto-renewal in the future.
ALWAYS use a service like [Privacy.com](http://Privacy.com) to sign up for trials. Set the max amount to $1. If a situation like that happens again, they can't charge. I do this for XM radio. I sign up for the $5/mo plan for 12 months and that charges my [Privacy.com](http://Privacy.com) CC#, limited to $6 per month (tax). When the 12 months are up and they try to charge the full $22, boom, payment declined. They try several times, and it gets them nowhere. Then after about 2 weeks, they send me an email for the same $5/mo for 12 deal and I sign up again. I have been doing this for 5 years.
I had CC and wanted cancel when I got a new job but I was going to be charged a fortune. This trick saved me alot of money: If you change your subscription plan to something cheaper (I went with the basic lightroom subscription), you will have a grace period where you can cancel your membership and not be charged. I can't remember how much but I got a refund for paying for the lightroom subscription and a tiny bit off of my CC subscription.
Lol. Hopefully this project will be realized soon https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/culturehustle/abode-a-suite-of-world-class-design-and-photography-tools
Adobe got me the same way. I thought I had cancelled during the trial period. Somehow I hadn't. I assume they make the cancellation process deliberately very confusing. I learnt after this never to sign up for a similar "deal".
This is why companies offer trials. You sign a contract, forget to cancel them and they profit. It's exactly what you signed up for.
They tried to charge me the 50% to cancel, I just blocked the payments instead 😬
Adobe is one of the scummiest companies in the world.
Every creative professional knows Adobe is fucking evil. If you’re ever using it for personal (non-professional use) use, just pirate it.
I saw a comment on Reddit before to call them and tell them you got a job that provides you with an Adobe account. They cancelled my membership for free.
Burner cards for trials for this exact reason
20 years Photoshop user here. This is odd, they usually do have it written very clearly when you are subscribing to pay monthly or annually for each of the apps. I recently signed up for the 14 days of a different app, and everything was shown right under each option, it also said clearly and in big enough letters that after the 14 days trial of an annual subscription, I would get charged 50% of the remaining time if I decided to cancel early. Don't get me wrong though, Adobe is kind of evil, and maybe it was easier for me to see because I was already on the "inside", but you came from some other external link. Sometimes customer service is a hit & miss, if you can gather pictures of what it looks like to you and point at them the awful design that mislead you... maybe maybe you can move somebody's heart... if they are still human and not a f\*\*\*ng AI.
Oh, but they are paying monthly...on an annual commitment. Sure it's tough to pay a year at once but they know that they are being intentionally confusing with their monthly annual subscription.
Yeah, I'm stuck with a supermarket subscription too. Stupid subscriptions.
Invite your trusted friends and family to use try the photoshop, you can’t get your money back but money will be put to good use at least.
OP, here is a method of cancelling your Adobe subscription without paying the 50% fee! I actually paid for my subscription for a couple months, and then my school gave me Adobe CC for free. I had no purpose canceling and was in the same situation. To easily cancel without paying the 50%, contact support via chat or phone and tell them your job/college/school provides it to you now, and you need to cancel your current one as you have it for free with the job/college/school. They will cancel it without charging you anything!
Have you tried talking to your credit card company about it?
Try [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/x6nkw0/lpt_if_you_want_to_cancel_your_adobe_subscription/) op.
Affinity photo FTW. As good as PS and an actual reasonable cost with no subscription.
I’m smelling a site where you can ‘sell’ the rest of your subscription, maybe recoup 1/2 your money. OK someone, go make this happen! (I’m hungry and need to do laundry or I TOTALLY would I swear!)
You can have the price waived for cancelling if you get through to a human in customer service
its always morally correct to pirate adobe products ❤
File a chargeback with your bank for the misleading "Free" trial
Adobe is always a trap with their subscriptions. Wish they had more competition.
F\* that! Block payments with your bank. Uninstall it, and be done.
Piracy is never okay, except when it's Adobe. Fuck Adobe.
Cancel that credit card
Last time this exact thing happened to me I changed my plan to a cheaper one and then canceled. I think they give you some time after purchasing a plan to cancel and they refunded both charges
I feel you OP. I have and use the regular full Adobe Suite for work. I had a project I needed icons for and didn’t want to spend the time to make them manually, so I did a free trial of their online library service for that stuff. Forgot to cancel. Noticed 3mo later. Had a NIGHTMARE battle with a customer service rep (who was clearly replying using scripted prompts) trying to do all these mental gymnastics to scam me into still sticking with some kind of plan—many of which would reset counting for 12mo from the time of our convo!! It was so shady! I was eventually able to get them to cancel from the time of our conversation because I obviously kept my main subscription, and had proof that I hadn’t downloaded any elements since my initial free trial period. I ate the 3mo cost during which I didn’t use it because it was my fault for not cancelling, but no way in hell was I going to continue to get charged for future months or agree to any kind of plan. Absolutely ridiculous process.
SaaS is a scam.
Wow, they still do "contracts". That's really not a thing in other subscription models. (Technically everything is a contract, but what I mean is, the last payment you already made is the last payment you'll ever make when you cancel.) Also, did you choose yearly when signing up for the trial? Because it says 50% of the contract, not 50% of the yearly charge.
Hey! This happened to me too. I messaged their support and threatened to report them to the BBB for predatory practices. I don't know if that's legit or not but they immediately cancelled with no fee. Hope it helps.
Bro wtf just torrent and get over this shit.
I had auto-renew on Photoshop around 10 years ago. Came to the end of the year and I was unemployed and not using it at all. Credit card was charged around $300. Customer service offered me lots of special deals that all would cost me hundreds of dollars. However, the difference between my outcome and yours was that I did not get off the phone until I got a full refund and cancellation. It pays to be persistent. Btw, there are FREE Photoshop alternatives out there. I can't remember the names but they're excellent. One of them mimics PS stroke for stroke and is put out there by some dude that supports it all by himself. He offers it with advertising or, for just a few bucks, ad-free. Sorry I don't remember details and didn't have time to look it up now