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Subscription Creep

Small monthly charges are easy to forget and they pile up fast.

The idea

A subscription charges you a small amount over and over, usually every month, without asking you again. Because each charge is small, it is easy to sign up and then forget the money is still leaving. Twelve months of $9.99 adds up to about $120, even for something you barely open. Reading your statement and cancelling what you do not use is how people take that money back. 🔁

Words to know

Subscription: A payment that repeats, usually every month, to keep using something.
Free trial: A short time when something is free before the charges start.
Auto-renew: When a subscription charges you again all by itself.
Cancel: Telling a company to stop taking the payments.
Statement: A list from a bank or card showing every payment that went out.

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Match each subscription word to what it means.

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In the full lesson

1Match the pairs
2Work out the number
3Make the call

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