Adobe Contracts
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Found something interesting with Adobe. For a while, I’ve been paying an annual fee to use Illustrator and Photoshop - not cheap either. Seeing as I no longer needed it, I thought I’d cancel.
Now here’s the caveat. You take an annual deal to keep the monthly cost down, but when you cancel, you have to pay out the remainder of the contract - very cunning, Adobe
There is, however, a workaround.
- Downgrade the plan you have to something lesser. This then cancels the existing contract (for free)
- The new “contract” is in fact a trial, so you just cancel and walk away for free.
100% works as I’ve literally just done it, and it may help someone else.
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Oh that is nice! Great work and thank you for sharing!! I don’t have an Adobe subscription, but that is just slimy that they do that to their customers. They probably have in fine print somewhere saying that don’t worry we will take your money whether you want to use or product or now.
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@Madchatthew @DownPW yes, it’s something I wanted to share because it might help others who find themselves in a similar situation.
There’s nothing documented about this anywhere and I only found it through playing with settings and trial/error. I personally find this sort of selling tactics underhanded - almost to the point of being stealth.
Mark Cutting also advises organisations as a Fractional CIO, Fractional CISO and Executive Advisor, helping boards improve technology governance, cyber resilience and executive decision making. Learn more at Gratmore Ltd
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@Madchatthew @DownPW yes, it’s something I wanted to share because it might help others who find themselves in a similar situation.
There’s nothing documented about this anywhere and I only found it through playing with settings and trial/error. I personally find this sort of selling tactics underhanded - almost to the point of being stealth.
@phenomlab said in Adobe Contracts:
There’s nothing documented about this anywhere and I only found it through playing with settings and trial/error. I personally find this sort of selling tactics underhanded - almost to the point of being stealth.
I 100% agree with this and in my opinion, this is a very bad business practice and I would never trust this company no matter how good their products may or may not be.
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@phenomlab said in Adobe Contracts:
There’s nothing documented about this anywhere and I only found it through playing with settings and trial/error. I personally find this sort of selling tactics underhanded - almost to the point of being stealth.
I 100% agree with this and in my opinion, this is a very bad business practice and I would never trust this company no matter how good their products may or may not be.
@Madchatthew It used to be much worse under the old “box copy” software model where you owned the software (supplied on a CD in a “pretty” box - hence the name) outright, but you still had to have a license!
Mark Cutting also advises organisations as a Fractional CIO, Fractional CISO and Executive Advisor, helping boards improve technology governance, cyber resilience and executive decision making. Learn more at Gratmore Ltd
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@Madchatthew It used to be much worse under the old “box copy” software model where you owned the software (supplied on a CD in a “pretty” box - hence the name) outright, but you still had to have a license!
@phenomlab Oh yeah, I remember those days, going to the store and buying the software, or ordering it online and waiting for it to show up in the mail. It is crazy how pretty much everything now is just downloaded and installed. Pretty much, new computers don’t even come with cd-rom drives or floppy drives for that matter anymore. How times have changed.
I remember booting up to a floppy disk, using fdisk to partition the hard drive and then using 3.5" floppy disks to load windows 3.1 and 3.11. I think even windows 95 came in 3.5" floppy disks to install it. Then you had to wait until it asked for the next disk and put the next one in. Those were the days haha
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@phenomlab Oh yeah, I remember those days, going to the store and buying the software, or ordering it online and waiting for it to show up in the mail. It is crazy how pretty much everything now is just downloaded and installed. Pretty much, new computers don’t even come with cd-rom drives or floppy drives for that matter anymore. How times have changed.
I remember booting up to a floppy disk, using fdisk to partition the hard drive and then using 3.5" floppy disks to load windows 3.1 and 3.11. I think even windows 95 came in 3.5" floppy disks to install it. Then you had to wait until it asked for the next disk and put the next one in. Those were the days haha
@Madchatthew said in Adobe Contracts:
I remember booting up to a floppy disk, using fdisk to partition the hard drive and then using 3.5" floppy disks to load windows 3.1 and 3.11. I think even windows 95 came in 3.5" floppy disks to install it. Then you had to wait until it asked for the next disk and put the next one in. Those were the days haha
Yeah, if I recall correctly, Windows 95 was 28 3.5" floppy disks… I seem to recall MS-DOS only being three…
Mark Cutting also advises organisations as a Fractional CIO, Fractional CISO and Executive Advisor, helping boards improve technology governance, cyber resilience and executive decision making. Learn more at Gratmore Ltd
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@Madchatthew said in Adobe Contracts:
I remember booting up to a floppy disk, using fdisk to partition the hard drive and then using 3.5" floppy disks to load windows 3.1 and 3.11. I think even windows 95 came in 3.5" floppy disks to install it. Then you had to wait until it asked for the next disk and put the next one in. Those were the days haha
Yeah, if I recall correctly, Windows 95 was 28 3.5" floppy disks… I seem to recall MS-DOS only being three…
@phenomlab LOL yep that is right, because there was a huge stack of them, I remember and it seemed like it took forever to go through the whole stack. Then you had to install drivers for each device. Oh the good ole days haha
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