> Google seems to think I value avoiding some slight inconvenience at $1000/month, and what’s more, they’ve chosen to provide not a free trial of a convenient thing (a tried and true approach) but a free inconvenient version of a convenient thing, forever. This can’t even sell me on the convenience of the “real” thing, since I’ve never seen it!
Well, tbh my personal experience with so-called “free trials” is a bad one because they often start to charge you after the free trial is over and when you have a lot of things going then you forget to cancel which of course is what they want but IMO a shady and immoral way of doing business.
I’ve been bitten by this a couple of times. Sometimes because I forgot to cancel on time, other times because I thought I was signing up for something with a one-time fee that turned out to be the monthly fee and they charge a full year.
So with my bad experiences I am extremely unlikely at this point to sign up for those kinds of trials if I can avoid it.
And when companies do that kind of stuff, depending on how they respond when I discover what happened and get in touch with their customer service, if it causes me grief then I will not do business with them again and I will tell my friends and family to not do business with them either.
Well, tbh my personal experience with so-called “free trials” is a bad one because they often start to charge you after the free trial is over and when you have a lot of things going then you forget to cancel which of course is what they want but IMO a shady and immoral way of doing business.
I’ve been bitten by this a couple of times. Sometimes because I forgot to cancel on time, other times because I thought I was signing up for something with a one-time fee that turned out to be the monthly fee and they charge a full year.
So with my bad experiences I am extremely unlikely at this point to sign up for those kinds of trials if I can avoid it.
And when companies do that kind of stuff, depending on how they respond when I discover what happened and get in touch with their customer service, if it causes me grief then I will not do business with them again and I will tell my friends and family to not do business with them either.