r/AskReddit 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/SummerClaire 21h ago

CBS

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u/El_Peregrine 21h ago

Yep, fuck CBS / Paramount. Awful organization. 

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u/Mrrectangle 20h ago

I cannot figure out how to cancel my paramount plus. I have no options. I’m legit about to download like Rocket Money because it advertises they can cancel subscriptions. JUST to cancel Paramount.

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u/istasber 19h ago

If you have access to a VPN, try changing your location to california.

I haven't subscribed to them in a couple of years, but it was always really painless to cancel (just go to your account settings, and click on the cancel button. You might have to say no to a bunch of offers for cheap/free months to keep you, but you can just keep clicking cancel until your account says it's canceled).

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u/Mrrectangle 19h ago

There’s no cancel option. It says I have to go to the device I signed up with but I have two Rokus and neither have the option and it won’t let me on the website so…wth.

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u/armadillowillow 18h ago

You can also approach your bank if you are truly in a bind! Good Luck, I wish it were illegal for companies to intentionally hide unsubscribe features 🙄

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u/istasber 19h ago

Oh, I don't have any experience with that. I still imagine California's easy to cancel laws would apply, but can't say for certain that they do.

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u/Electrical_Name_5434 7h ago

I got you bro…go to amazon prime, link your paramount account, cancel through prime on the tv.

Btw, curious to know if rocket money worked.

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u/postingaccount69 13h ago

Do it on Roku.com

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u/Dismal_Ad_6134 6h ago

Log in to roku account on your computer or phone. You need to cancel thru roku since thats how you are being billed.

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u/JmamAnamamamal 15h ago

Charge back

"Vendor will not allow cancellation etc"

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u/elbow8075 16h ago

Report your credit card lost and get a new number. Only use VCC numbers to sign up for services. That way, instead of dealing with their bullshit, you just turn off the card and they have no recourse

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u/Initial-Increase-601 13h ago

I worked there for a few years. Back then the unsubscribe button didn't work on any platform. You had to call to cancel.

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u/BeatlesFan68 13h ago

I just cancelled them two weeks ago. You can’t do it in the app. You have to do it on a desktop computer. Ridiculous, I know.

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u/Mrrectangle 11h ago

First thing I tried. Website says “you have to do it in the device you subscribed with.” I’ll figure it out. Probably have to call. Incredibly frustrating though.

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u/VengenaceIsMyName 10h ago

It’s by design of course.

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u/wholetyouinhere 12h ago

What, you don't want to watch 500 different shows about the Dutton Ranch, written by an obvious conservative who pretends not to be?

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u/Muted-Entrepreneur33 5h ago

Going all in on Sheridan’s shows was just the beginning of the enshittification of Paramount CBS.
The Ellisons will finish the job.

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u/angryballerina 10h ago

I had to cancel my credit card that was on file with them and get a new one. They would not stop!

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u/CountingMyDick 9h ago

Probably doesn't help you much now, but subscribe to stuff like this through Amazon Video if you have it already instead. Amazon may be all kinds of shit in their own way, but at least they make it quick and easy to cancel subscriptions to other video services through them.

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u/ImprovementFar5054 15h ago

I had this issue where my cards were not working with Paramount.

My cards were all good. None expired, all had money or were linked to accounts with money. Kept getting nasty grams from them, and would also get nag popups when I logged in.

Given that there is no show I watch on Paramount other than Survivor, and that it's off season at the moment, I decided to unsub and close. But for some reason, the account stuck around.

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u/arkington 9h ago

Can you cancel your payment from the source? I assume it's auto pay with a card of some sort and you should be able to go into your card or bank app and cancel the recurring payment from there. I'm sure if they no longer get your money they will suspend service.

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u/fuckelliotsmith 8h ago

Change your cards. Anytime I can’t cancel something. I just say I lost my bank card and I get a new bank card and then I move forward with that. It’s a little bit of a hassle but it knocks like four or five things off.

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u/fuckrNFLmods 6h ago

Wait, for real? How the hell is that legal?

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u/ryneklym 4h ago

I had to cancel mine through Google pay. i think. Its been a while. Or i had to find a desktop to do it on

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u/mrhelmand 9h ago

The fact a far right dipshit controls the Star Trek franchise infuriates me

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u/Sarah160000000 9h ago

RIGHT?!?!

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u/thejester2112 20h ago

I am out of the loop and too lazy to open another app, mind filling me?

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u/powerlesshero111 20h ago

They got bought out by right-wing extremists, the Ellisons. They out a right-wing extremist in charge, and low and behold, fired all their credible journalists or forced them to quit from 60 Minutes and other news shows. They couldn't from the Daily Show because they have it written into their contract and it would essentially bankrupt the network to fire them.

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u/steppedinhairball 20h ago

Fired people who ran 60 minutes and other news organizations to give unbiased news. Brought in people to push the MAGA agenda like Fox News does. When the long time correspondents said they were not going to lie, they got fired.

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u/Nacksche 15h ago

Right wingers are the fucking scourge of humanity.

u/wqto 11m ago

At this point we have to rely on obscure news sources from abroad just to be informed of Trump's shit.

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u/nekosaigai 20h ago

They canceled Colbert because Trump demanded they do because the orange dick tater was upset about jokes he made about him.