Just a heads up in case you too try to pay for only one month of one of their products.
^I skimmed the “agree to” thing and must have missed the termination fee section. So that was a surprise. There was also no warning of this additional fee right before cancelling.
Gross.
So I went on their help forums and found plenty of unhappy people. Apparently sometimes they just keep billing you after you cancel or if you live in certain countries, charge you for the full year (and if you cancel after a year, they charge you for a full year after that). I did find this one happy piece of advice though:
“Adobe can not provide a contract because no such contract exists. Close those accounts from where they are collecting payments and see if they send you a Written bill. How to cancel payment to Adobe Stock: Cancel payments to Adobe through your financial institution. PayPal cancel payment: Transaction details–View Billing Agreement Details. Last but not least, read the subscription details first and ask the service representative to explain them. Also, Do not cancel through manage account. NEVER“
Too late.
This is actually how I escaped last time though. I got a preloaded credit card for my birthday and used it to pay for the subscription. Then when all the money on it was used up, it just lapsed and they cancelled my subscription because I “failed to update my card in time”. But that was like 5 years ago, so who knows if they just let it go like that now? Also they made it very hard to cancel. You had to click a button and then email them I think? At least they resolved that issue–only to replace it with grimier terms.
Either way, I think cracked or off-brand programs are the way to go. I was going to switch my program subscription to Storyboard Pro, but I can’t in good conscience do that now. Storyboarder is still free and their customer service is somehow better.
In fact, pretty much every Adobe program has a comparable open source version on the web. Illustrator was the first design program I’d ever used, so naturally I went there first for vector work, but there are free alternatives even for that.
“In the 70s it was black and minority ethnic people, in the 80s it was gay people, trans people are just the latest to get it in the neck from comedians who can’t be bothered to try at their jobs anymore. I cannot stand there and watch another dogshit comedian go: ‘Ooohh if a woman can identify as a man, maybe I’ll identify as a chair!’ Why don’t you identify as good comedians, you hack motherfuckers?!”
- Nish Kumar: “It’s In Your Nature To Destroy Yourselves pt.2”
What if Jake Coolice’s sylvan form is a jackalope and he uses it to talk to Dr. Harris Bonkers PHD and makes bad jokes like “I’m not a jackalope, I’m a JAKE-alope!”
