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Originally Posted by coolbreeze
What I want to know is with newspapers and magazines, new subscribers are given a "14-day free trial."
If this is the case, why do I get billed immediately after my "free 14-day trial" begins?
Granted if I cancel, say, and day 12, I should be refunded 100%, but even then, it says my refund will be prorated.
Amazon's 14-day free trial is just that. No charge hits your card until the 15th day, providing you don't cancel...
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Are you sure they billed you and just not ran the card?
this is from their website:
All first-time subscribers receive a FREE 14-day trial. If you cancel your subscription before the end of the 14 days, you will not be charged. If you do not cancel the subscription, deliveries will continue and your default credit card will be charged automatically at the monthly subscription rate. Your subscription will automatically renew each month unless you choose to cancel. You are only eligible for one free trial for each eNewspaper and eMagazine.
They may initially run the card but that doesn't mean they charge it. What happens is the amount goes into "pending" depending on the Bank or Credit Card company a store such as BN has a certain amount of days to send in the approval to change it from a "pending' or some call it a "hold". If it's not sent in then the hold or pending goes away and nothing is charged.
this very very common. Say for example you go out with your friends to a bar and start a tab. The bartender will ask you for a credit card and will run it throughout your time spent at the place. At the end you pay with cash. But if you check your account you will have "hold" of the amount of time at the bar. Then in about 3 days (that's my banks time limit) the charge/hold is gone.
I think that is what happens