<prompt> Human: TL:DR: The Economist charged my credit card for 2.5 years after I canceled my subscription. I cant get my money back.I am a huge consumer of newscurrent affairs. I usually get my news online, but a part of me wants to save the print media from going extinct. So when I got my first job, I subscribed to The Economist, which I view to be the standard bearer for quality of writing.About 6 months later, I was moving to another city. I didnt want to deal with changing my subscription address, and frankly I didnt read the paper copies of the magazine as much as I thought I would, so I canceled my subscription online.In my opinion, unsubscription should be as simple as clicking on a button. But the magazines website told me to send an email to a subscription management email address. So I did. A day later, I got this automated email as a response. Dear SirMadam, To help us identify your subscription, could you please provide one of the following: - Your eight-digit Customer Reference Number CRN - The e-mail address you use to access your digital subscription - The mailing address your weekly print issues are delivered to Unfortunately correspondence which does not include the requested information will not reach us. Should you not have any of the requested information please call us on the relevant number below.This email already raised 3 red flags with me. 1. This is clearly an automated response. Why does it take a day to reach me? and 2. This email is sent to the email address that I used to access digital subscription, so they emailed me to ask for my email address. and 3. In my first email asking them to cancel, I already explicitly provided my name, email, and mailing address. But nonetheless, I emailed them all the required information.So I forgot about this until last week, when I looked at my credit card bill, and was astounded to find a 55 charge from the magazine. I looked back in my credit card history, and confirmed that The Economist had been charging my card for 2.5 years for a total of 600. There was no email from them during the entire period indicating that my subscription is active.I emailed The Economist last week asking them to refund me for 2.5 years of magazines I never saw. I showed them how I provided my email address for unsubscription twice. The Economist only agreed to refund me for the remaining balance, 64 from the current subscription, but will not refund the rest.I definitely learned my lessons here. 1. Go through every line in credit card statement and 2. never to give my credit card information to a subscription service.But in terms of the 550 that The Economist charged me, what can I do here? I feel like I cannot make my case any clearer to the magazine, so they will not voluntarily give my money back. I also feel like I have all the evidence in the world that I am not in the wrong here, so I should be able to get this money back through court if I needed to, but that takes time and effort.Your advice is needed. Something in me tells me that this is probably an extremely widespread practice from shady magazines. Thanks!  <response>: This is on you for not following up and ensuring that the subscription was cancelled, as well as somehow not noticing 2.5 years of charges. Undoubtedly your subscription came with some Terms Conditions, which likely included details about how to cancel and an explanation that the subscription would continue until explicitly cancelled by you. Chalk this up to a relatively inexpensive life lesson to check your credit card statements in detail and get things like cancellation confirmations in writing. 