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‘They folded like a cheap suit’: Customer demands a subscription refund after getting wrongfully charged, then plays hardball with customer service to fight back on the charges

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  • Spotify Support told me to read their refund policy. So I did, and forced them to give me a refund.
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  • So, my Spotify Premium renewed today because I forgot to cancel. I immediately checked their refund policy online and confirmed I was eligible, so I
  • canceled the plan (literally within minutes) and hopped on support chat to ask for the refund. Seemed simple, right? Wrong.
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  • The agent, "Christina", gave me the classic runaround. She said the 14-day refund period only applies to your initial sign-up, and
  • since I'd been a member for months, I was out of luck. She even sent me a link to the policy to prove her point, telling me to read it.
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  • This is where the malicious compliance comes in. I did exactly what she said. I read the policy, and then I went deeper and found their full, legally-binding Terms of Use.
  • And what did I find? In Section 3, under "Withdrawal right", it clearly states you have "fourteen (14) days after your purchase to withdraw for any reason". A
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  • monthly renewal is a new purchase. My own research before the chat was correct. I went back to Christina and quoted the Terms of Use
  • directly. She put me on hold to "check backstage" then came back with the same denial. Her team was doubling down on the incorrect script.
  • So I played my final card. I sent this message: "Since this dispute is specifically about the legal interpretation of the
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  • 'Withdrawal right' in your Terms of Use, could you please provide the contact information for Spotify's legal department or the appropriate office for handling formal contractual disputes?"
  • The change was INSTANT. Suddenly, she had to "see what she could do". Five minutes later? "I've managed
  • to ask some support with our backstage team... and we can go ahead and process a refund for you." They folded like a cheap suit.
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  • Their business model counts on you giving up. Don't. You are entitled to your money back.
  • TL;DR: Spotify support tried to deny my valid refund by misinterpreting their own policy. I read their legal Terms of Use as they suggested,
  • cited it back to them, and when they still refused, I asked for their legal team's contact info. They immediately processed the refund. Don't let them push you around
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  • ----mgk⚫ Planet fitness literally makes you go into the gym to cancel your membership. Annoying but whatever, so I went to the gym in my new town-states away- and
  • they told me I had to go to the original gym. Went to my bank, told them I wanted to dispute future charges. Thankfully the
  • clerk had similar issue so she went into Karen mode for me and got not only 3 months of my money back but 6 months prior too. The power of a scorned woman.

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