I try to start with the trail membership (14 days).
Every time when I logon on the Windows application it asks me for my membership and the following link goes to a page that asked for my credit card information.
Why do I have to store my credit card information for the free 14 days trial period?
We that is the way it works. After the 14 day trial, I believe that you will be auto enrolled as a subscriber and your card charged UNLESS you cancel the trial before the 14 days expires. This seems to be standard practice with all subscription trials I have tried (Tidal, Spotify and Qobuz for instance) I understand that Roon will contact you 3 days before the trial ends to remind you, if you want to cancel. I have been on the trial for 1 week now.
There is no fighting because it isn’t illegal or unfair to the consumer. This is the way many (most) subscription services, i.e. services that charge on a monthly or yearly basis, handle their free trials. E.g. almost all video and music streaming services bill their free trials this way.
JShiver is not a subscription service. It issues releases on an ad hoc schedule and so they charge for new versions rather than a continuation of an existing version.
Ok ok I am not saying it is ILLEGAL, I am saying that TO ME is UNFAIR … if I subscribe by accident what happens. They will get money for one year subscription?
Or I can unsibscibe on a monthly basis like netflix does?
To be fair Roon email you 3 days before taking payment with a link to cancel your trial should you wish and then you have a 30 day period after payment has been taken in which to cancel and get a full refund.
So you have 6 weeks in which to cancel and essentially not be charged. That seems plenty to me and fair from unfair.
Every on-line subscription based service I’ve tried over the past several years works the same way. Ancestry, Amazon Music, Roon and others. When I first encountered this I was upset like you. But I’ve come to accept it because it’s now standard business practice. I suspect there’s a not insignificant source of income from people who forget to cancel the trial and wind up paying for a service they never use. But that’s the way of the world nowdays.