Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for January 08, 2025

Arlo, it was honestly silly of you to think that Free meant Free.

Many banks offer one-time use, virtual card numbers so the hyenas won’t be able to suck more money out of you

More grifters every day. We are becoming a society of grifters.

Buy a pre-paid Debt-Card, for $50.00, so that when the free gift card expires the most they will get is one, two months of service before the money runs out.

It’s about to get worse. Buyer beware.

Don’t underestimate the situation?

It’s not the same here since the last generation passed away.

They’re counting on you to forget to cancel the subscription before the gift expires. That and making it stupidly annoying to cancel once it kicks in.

Just like any other drug dealer.

Go ahead and give them your credit card information. Then get in touch with your credit card company and tell them you can’t find your card. Easy Peasy.

Yep, never leave my credit card number for something “free”. I would rather do without.

If a person is dumb enough to subscribe to streaming services, you deserve everything bad that happens to you.

It’s these same fools that put all their information on Fakebook, X, TikTok and other sites/services, then are puzzled by how all these corporations know so much about them and/or they get their identity stolen. It wasn’t “stolen”, you gave it away.

Just get your rich friends or kids to share their passcode. Problem solved.

I get tons of “free” offers that all want your card info. Most of them last a few months and then start charging the card and hope you don’t notice.

Plus when you try to go unsubscribe the connection doesn’t work until about your 6th try.

Decline the gift and the request for the credit card. Free is free and the entity should NEVER have that kind of caveat! Legalized theft!

Write to your congress people and ask them to make this practice illegal. Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha .. aah

TANSTAAFl.

I wonder if the “gift” was from Harry and Megan. They’re a couple of alleged grifters….

Cancel as soon as you sign up. It’ll carry through the first billing cycle before actually canceling and you won’t have to remember to cancel it 30 days from now

For subscriptions like that I have a separate email and I put a reminder in my smartypants phone to pop up about a week before it’s due and unsubscribe if I want to. Also on a hardcopy calendar.

I see a problem here. Wouldn’t the Gift Giver be the one that had to put in a Credit Card Number?

Just set an alarm/reminder on your phone for a few days before the gift subscription runs out to remind you to cancel it. In this case, both of them should do that, to make extra sure it gets done.

Now you know what to give them next year!!!

Yeah, Amazon keeps offering me “free” gifts for music and other services. Just sign up, give them your credit card number, and hopefully forget to cancel when the “gift” expires. I got news for you, Amazon. That ain’t a gift.

just Mark the calendar on your phone 2 weeks before it’s supposed to renew and cancel it and yes to check the box that says don’t keep the credit card

Don’t forget Suckers, Stooges and Rubes.

Calm down. You don’t have to remember to cancel. You cancel immediately and watch till your gift expires.

I have a Visa with just a few bucks on it for this purpose. If someone steals the number or a service tries to charge to it, the charge will get declined. Even if someone does clean it out I’m only out $2.

Any time it says free and then asks for my credit card, it’s a sure sign it’s not free. And will cost you a lot more when they sell your credit card information on line.

No card numbers from me. Not even GoComics.

Everything has been gradually moving to the subscription model for decades. Home ownership is getting so expensive within 30 years there will be no home ownership. People will all be renting homes owned by Blackrock.

The prevailing theory is that if we all cheat each other, somehow we’ll all end up ahead.

Lootcrate!

I just use a test credit card number for those. The number always goes through but nothing gets charged.