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magazine subscription leads to unauthorized recurring payment
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you have a subscription that costs $25 they have the capabilities to get that $25 from the card on file if you had stopped paying for it, you re-upping the cost of the subscription was more of a courtesy. they would have considered pulling the $25 themselves or it may have gone to collections (or they could courteously ask if you wanted to resubscribe, what a concept) the credit card processing agreements (with the credit card companies) and the ftc would handle such business practices, but "illegal" wouldn't be the word i would use. the ftc or congress may have mandated that an easy "opt-out" number be associated with that kind of business practice, and left it at that.
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