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Originally Posted by 911_Dude
If you sign up for ANYTHING that requires your credit card, you have to assume its auto renewal. Even "free" trials.
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Which is why a pre-loaded gift card would be perfect for this situation.
Except credit card companies make it very difficult to protect oneself:
1). Hefty charge to purchase (10-20%) in store.
2). You still have to provide extensive personally-identifiable information to activate and use your purchase for commerce.
3). These cards are not re-loadable.
I once had a gift card and wanted to buy a couple of cheap DRM-free games from
https://www.gog.com/.
The transaction wouldn't process online.
I called the CC company.
They said gog was "in a country on the government terrorist watch list".
It is located in Cyprus and Poland.