![]() Using the fake email address and the name Brown Warthog, I signed up for Spotify and CBS All Access (I’ve been dying to watch Emmy-nominated The Good Fight for years!). You sign up for these “free” trials with your credit card, forget about them, and then are left paying for a service you aren’t using. But if you’re anything like me, you can relate. OK, maybe I’m actually talking about me here. Only it didn’t work because they had terrible Wi-Fi signal service, and they fell asleep whimpering in their hotel bed, watching as the spinning loading wheel of death never advanced and they forgot all about the free trial they’d signed up for. It’s not until these sunny, positive thinkers are digging through their transaction history in their banking app months later that they see it: $89 a year for a mobile VPN membership? What on earth? And then they remember: It was April, Game of Thrones was finally returning for the last season, and they were in Canada, a place where HBO inexplicably doesn’t exist, and so they signed up for a free trial of a mobile VPN to try to stream it on their phone. Optimists assure themselves that they’ll keep track of when the trial ends and they’ll cancel before they are ever charged, if it turns out they don’t want to continue. Pessimists understand this too, but are prematurely embittered even as they plug in their credit card numbers. ![]() Realists accept that they’ll eventually wind up paying for this thing that is currently free. ![]() Every time you sign up for a free trial of any kind, you’re forced to take stock of your outlook on life. ![]()
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