Is DIE ZEIT digital magazine free or do you need to subscribe?
2023-01-27
My dumb ass made an account with them (no credit card information shared) and now I received an invoice for 140 EUR to buy their subscription. I am so confused and immediately killed my account.
It seems like you did subscribe by making that account.
Credit card information isn’t needed for that – if you sign up (which seems to have started the contract for receiving their digital stuff), you agreed for paying that service.
It’s 5,60€ per week currently, as it seems on their website.
The first thing you will have to do is cancel the subscription immediately.
And then, you will have to pay the money you owe them. If it’s not possible at once, contact them for Ratenvereinbarung.
You might try to talk to them to only pay for the time you really received it. It looks like they want the amount for 6 months or so.
If you just subscribed and didn’t receive that much yet, try to talk to them.
And – you think that “I killed my account” solves this?
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It seems like you did subscribe by making that account.
Credit card information isn’t needed for that – if you sign up (which seems to have started the contract for receiving their digital stuff), you agreed for paying that service.
It’s 5,60€ per week currently, as it seems on their website.
The first thing you will have to do is cancel the subscription immediately.
And then, you will have to pay the money you owe them. If it’s not possible at once, contact them for Ratenvereinbarung.
You might try to talk to them to only pay for the time you really received it. It looks like they want the amount for 6 months or so.
If you just subscribed and didn’t receive that much yet, try to talk to them.
And – you think that “I killed my account” solves this?
For some reason whatever you had there, has resulted in a one-year subscription. As this is from 2 days ago, you have the right to cancel the subscription (“Widerruf”): https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/vertraege-reklamation/kundenrechte/zeitungen-und-zeitschriften-im-abo-tipps-fuer-widerruf-oder-kuendigung-13853
Do this immediately.