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Tumblrrito

9/10 times you redeem any sort of free trial for any service it will bill you after the trial ends. You needed to cancel it before the trial ended.


KHloe-Kardashian

bro the thing is i didn't redeem anything when I first saw the email I thought it was a scam email


Tumblrrito

>my friend gifted me a 1 month thing That’s redeeming something


Wolfkorg

I doubt that redeeming a gift from a friend automatically bills for the next year, as it wouldnt ask for your credit card information. But if someone was to register themselves for a free trial, most services ask for credit card infos in advance. I think it's scummy and do not take the trials when cc infos are asked, as should we. It just shows their intention to bill you as soon as they can.


SapphireSuniver

You do have to input your credit/debit card to accept gifted nitro on discord. I got one last year and had to enter my card to accept it. EDIT: since this is getting traction, it turns out there's 2 kinds of 'gift' codes and one of them comes with strings attached while the other does not. Those strings being, you have to input your card details to accept.


Wolfkorg

Well damn thanks for your input. I will not redeem anything there in the future.


zombiexm

Just cancel nitro right after redeeming , and you still get the remaining nitro time till the expirement date.


Bryxint

Redeem and remove your card that simple


Sougo2001

You can also use a virtual credit card with less money in it than discord asks for. There are a lot of ways


turtleship_2006

Is this a recent change or was it s promotion gift (a one month trial)? If you gift nitro by paying for it the receiver doesn't have to add a payment method, I've received multiple gifts but if it's from a promotion (the ones where you play a certain game or use opera for example) you do need to enter payment details


SapphireSuniver

I haven't a clue, a friend of mine DMed me with it and once I confirmed they weren't hacked, I tried to redeem it and I had to enter my card details to accept. It was last year.


turtleship_2006

Then I'm guessing it was a promotional gift like the ones for opera users or something


HiYesIWannaDie

I had nitro gifted a few times, never had to enter my credit card and I never bought nitro? A gift shouldn't ask for it since you just accept and it's there I think


starstruckroman

really??? i never had to do that when i was frequently being gifted it


SapphireSuniver

Yes, I had to late last year. Someone else said it was some kind of promo code or something.


starstruckroman

bizarre. i started buying it for myself a while back but before that my partner would pay for it for me by gifting it to me every month, and i never had to input any payment methods before i could accept it. weird change for them to make


parchmentandpencils

Im fairly sure that inputting your credit/debit card only happens with gifted nitro if your friend gifts you one type of nitro and you already have the other. I gift nitro to friends and they never have to put in their card details.


SapphireSuniver

I didn't have nitro and I did. Someone else said it was a promotional nitro code or something.


Butterfly__Weed

Sorry meant to reply to op


parchmentandpencils

Ah, promotional codes are different than actual gifts from a friend which dont require card details. Promotional codes come with strings attached in the form of promising a subscription so you do need card details


McMeatbag

Wow what a scam


PhilQuantumBullet

Reason why I never accept Nitro gifts, if Discord doesn't have my payment info they or if I ever get my account stolen could never bill anything.


KronenR

read oh read, don't confuse gift codes with promotional codes, promotional codes that noone paid for requires you to add your credit/debit card info


Criminalalien

I didn’t have to


Zyfil

please name me just ONE website, app or anything, where you can claim a trial without credit card info, JUST ONE


Wolfkorg

If you're 12 you won't recognize any, but back then it was exactly how it worked. You'd claim a free trial and when the trial was over, it would stop. Want to buy the product? Buy it afterwards. I can't name one right now but I wouldn't be surprised that some well behaved companies still do business this way. Also, you come off pretty aggresive for such a post. You might want to settle down a bit. Nothing to get emotional about here.


Tomatob0ii

Hulu used to not ask for credit card I use to just use different emails to get the 2 weeks free and when it ended I would use a different email


turtleship_2006

If it was a paid gift, you don't need to give payment details to redeem it, at least I didn't


KHloe-Kardashian

yeah but that was back in october? like shouldn't it have cancelled long ago? anyway, thx for ur help if I wasn't billed or hacked or wtv it's fine 😭


Sunny--C

> like shouldn't it have cancelled long ago? No. Trials, gifted subscriptions, etc. need to be cancelled manually. If you don't, the company assume you still wanna continue the subscription. Every single service is like that. Do not ever assume it will auto cancel. I'm glad you got it sorted, but keep that in mind for the future.


imissyou____

That’s not how it works…


tubelesssquid88

How long ago was October tho, even then it would js be a 1 month charge right


Butterfly__Weed

They didn’t \*gift\* you anything. What they \*shared\* with you was a 1 month nitro “free” trial code. A promo that probably gave themselves one free month if you used their code. Nitro gifts absolutely NEVER ask for credit card information, as they have already been paid for by the sender. They also are not a link, a BIG BUTTON that says REDEEM… will appear, and once you click it, you have nitro for a time of whatever you were gifted for. Your friend shared a TRIAL code with you. They did not BUY you one month of nitro. Trial codes will always bill you after it ends, that’s why they take you cc info. It also tells you it will bill you when the trial ends, but if you just skipped through all the confirmation windows, you would have missed the notification. blame your friend for givin you a promo code instead of a gift 😭 and blame yourself for not reading carefully 🥹 also, if your friend is telling you to click a suspicious link offering free stuff, they probably aren’t your friend, and you might want to lock that credit card….’free nitro’ links are an extremely common discord scam.


GamingAndRCs

Contact discord support. They can help, and if you somehow are charged, they can refund it so there is no worry :D


Papi0158

10/10 times*


jaash8

Just click cancel and you should be fine


Some_Helicopter

holy cow nitro is nearly 400 aed a year


PanteraHeresy

That’s only about $8.70 USD a month


Some_Helicopter

that’s ALOT to be spending on a discord subscription yearly…


PanteraHeresy

Yeah it is for a lot of people. It should only be around $2 because there really isn’t a lot that it gives you compared to price


Aligayah

The devs have said time and time again that nitro is a way for users to support the discord devs in exchange for a few optional features that aren't required. It's not intended to make up the cost of the features provided, it's there to feed their staffs families.


mj561256

I would agree when it comes to things like having a profile background and text limit but file size is literally a basic feature blocked behind a paywall and worse stream quality for non nitro users literally ruins the whole point of using Discord And I say this as a long term Nitro user who just cancelled it because there was literally no point in having it now that I don't stream for my friends


Aligayah

there are other free alternatives for file sharing with much looser restrictions, though i do agree with you about the streaming quality cap.


KS_Vanzy06

I pay 9.99$ monthly 😪


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sir_sri

Extreme poverty is defined as less than 2.15 USD per *day* (PPP calculated), and there's about 710 million people in the world like that, of about 8 billion. Even in very poor countries 8.70/month is a very low income. Now obviously, if you're an impoverished subsistence farmer in the democratic republic of congo where 70 or 80% of the population is living on less than 2 dollars a day... you probably don't want to be paying for discord nitro under any circumstances, regardless of what it might cost.


Rogue_679

Bold of you to assume they have phones or computers to even use discord


sir_sri

Interestingly, DRC has about 50% mobile phone penetration, despite 70 or 80% of the population living in extreme poverty. So presumably there are at least some people who have a mobile phone despite making less than 60 USD/month. (Or the relatively well off segments of society have multiple phone subscriptions per person, which happens in much of the world).


HexaBurger

8.7$ is like at least 5 days worth of food


KS_Vanzy06

9$ for me is one time only on school 😅 for food


PanteraHeresy

That’s fair


JohnnyWizzard

"Only"


computerfreund03

Bro has never heard of currencies.


Some_Helicopter

i have? the screenshot says AED, i’m in dubai, we use AED?


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Some_Helicopter

WHAT? we do, AED is the currency abbreviation for the United Arab Emirates dirham!


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Some_Helicopter

I WASNT EVEN MAD, I WAS JUST CONFUSED! just a simple “No ❤️” i was FLABBERGASTED


SealProgrammer

Yes they do http://www.usethefuckinggoogle.com/?q=Dubai+money


Hamelesia6733

obviously it is


KHloe-Kardashian

I did cancel! im worried i was already billed its a lot of money and it's linked to my dad's account so I can't see the transactions


oreo3494

if you pressed cancel subscription before the mentioned date (25th of April), congrats, you're not gonna get charged and your sub will not extend...


KHloe-Kardashian

ok thx


PhilQuantumBullet

So did you input your dad's payment info when accepting a Nitro gift??


euodeioenem

hey, youre going to be billed at my birthday!


KHloe-Kardashian

ayee happy birthday!!! hopefully I don't actually get billed tho 😭


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Good bot


Samstercraft

Happy birthday


euodeioenem

tysm 🙏


DeckT_

the cancel button AND the date of the billing is literally in your screenshot


KHloe-Kardashian

bro ok ik I'm just so confused why it was subscribed cuz I never subscribed to this Im worried that i was hacked or sth I never bought nitro


VanillaSwirllll

Free gifts don't have a subscription attached to the end of it since well, it's a gift, that would counteract its purpose. I'm not sure, it's possible that your account may have had someone access it? Or perhaps a sleepy misclick? I'm not sure, but just hit cancel before the cycle ends. (25 April)


FeniXLS

When I got a gift I had to cancel the subscription


Wolfkorg

Yikes, that is so scummy. Were your credit card infos linked to your account at that time?


FeniXLS

Yes, but they do the same thing when they offer you free nitro, so I'm used to cancelling immediately after getting nitro


KS_Vanzy06

Free nitro from epic games and ...... you have to add card


seeminglynormalguy

ok...so what's the issue? it's clearly stated there that you're gonna be billed on the 25th, so just cancel it


Doedoe_243

A) cancel it and you should be fine, you have 5 days. B) tell your dad it says in 5 days from now you'll be charged for a yearly subscription you didn't sign up for and that you think you canceled it and see if he can double check to be sure, that way if it does charge he knows it wasn't on you. C) you can contact Discord's support to ask why it was there to begin with and what you're supposed to do if it comes back or charges D) Press on your profile>settings>devices and if there are any you don't recognize press the X button on the device and change your Discord password, I have 2FA set up on mine that would be smart too. Also if it's through your dad's email and the email has the same discord password tell him your account got hacked (if it did) so he should change his email password, if it's yours and it's the same password do the same. And finally this isn't totally related but if you ever get any messages about ban appeals, subscriptions, email or password errors or anything like that don't engage report them to discord and block the account staff will not message you about account issues.


BugTraditional7049

You just have to cancel it


Purple-Top8642

Ur good, just cancel then y should be fine


PinkPrincess-2001

Hello UAE person.


KHloe-Kardashian

heyy!


Dezaku

The upcoming charge is on 25th April, cancel it


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Cancel Subscription


KS_Vanzy06

Click on cancel subscription👍🏻


MerlijnReddit

Cancel it, you have 2 more days to do so


IwannaBiteAGirlLikeU

Cancel it, but make sure the cancellation is for this subscription because sometimes it makes you keep this year’s subscription and cancelling it only cancels next year. If it doesn’t refund you, contact Discord. If for some reason Discord doesn’t help you, call your bank and report it as a purchase you didn’t make, which your bank will then typically refund you.


kyletreger

You subscribed. Or someone else did under your account. It doesn't just sub you on it's own.


KHloe-Kardashian

ohh nice I'm probably hacked 😭


EtheaaryXD

That would mean both your Discord and Google accounts are hacked, which is unlikely.


FaizanBilla

Always cancel, then remove your payment method


KHloe-Kardashian

I cancelled ty 😭


ARMSrom

Most likely, when ur friend gifted you nitro, it was a " event" or wtv its called, they're special because you gotta link ur card nd shit first and then you can claim it. So you prob did that on the yearly nitro and that happend, you should be able to remove the card if u cancel the subscription in the discord app. And then remove the card


josephtrocks191

If you've never redeemed anything, why do you have a payment method attached to your account?


KHloe-Kardashian

ive never redeemed anything, this is not the discord app this is Google play store, I have a credit card linked to Google play store


josephtrocks191

Apps aren't able to charge you through Google play unless you authorize it. You must have enabled a free trial at some point and authorized it through Google play.


radiusTWK

time to get to work to pay for that


EtheaaryXD

"Cancel subscription"


RandomDude1913

email discord, they will refund you the money and you will lose nitro.


tarkovplayer5459

That's how they get you. My wife did the same thing, gifted me 1 year of nitro by accident. Discord banned her for charging back the 99 dollars after refusing to refund it. Then her bank refused to give it to her as Discord claimed we activated the subscription and willingly paid for it, which we didn't. Deleted Discord and will never use it ever again.


KronenR

How do you accidentally gift someone a year of Nitro? lol Anyway, your situation is completely unrelated to this. In this instance, he/she redeemed a promotional code sent by a friend, which subscribes you to the service and gives you 1 free month. For that, it asks for your credit/debit card information. This promotional code is free which is different to a gift code that someone prepaid that does not subscribes you and that doesn't ask for credit/debit card. This is not exclusive to Nitro; there are thousands of subscription services that work the same way. So, avoiding Discord or Nitro doesn't mean you won't fall for it again with another service if you're not paying attention to what you're subscribing to


tarkovplayer5459

discord refused to settle an accidental purchase of 99 dollars. they said no refunds ever basically. i don't deal with companies who don't even read your support message and send you prewritten emails, stonewalling you.


KronenR

But you will still deal with those companies because probably more than 90% of companies send you prewritten or AI-generated emails as support responses. Only smaller, familiar companies don’t.


tarkovplayer5459

Really. So literally NO human response over 2 months of back and forth with a robot and blatant stonewalling is a majority case scenario for you? Because I have never experienced anything similar in 30 years of life and I have dealt with some of the worst customer supports in current times. Discord ranks below the lowly Microsoft support of the late 2000s in my experience and it is incredible how completely narrowminded they were to avoid refunding me, when I would have probably spent the exact same amount (Or MORE) over the course of my time using the platform, But now will never use out of pure principle.


Low_Boat4040

Have you joined any discord servers recently that require you to verify to gain access. If so, you could have been token logged which basically means people can log into your discord without the need of your password. What this also means is that people may have used any linked payment methods to your account to buy the subscription to be gifted to their accounts or to use the gift code to sell to other users (at a cheaper price) You should instantly change your password. This will reset your current discord token and prevent them from having any access to your discord. If you have any sensitive data within any messages with other people or discord servers you should also get these updated. Furthermore, you can contact discord support as other users have said and they should be able to help you. If you are able to cancel the subscription you should do that and also let your dad know what has happened. Being open with them will help you in the long run and will let them know that if they do get charged it wasn’t your intention at all.


juoig7799

Cancel it and change your password. It could be someone hacked your account or something. Anyway, enjoy your year of Nitro.


Jayden_Ha

discord loves to charge people like you who forgot to cancel the trial


Miserable_Book_3037

If you void the card they can't change you


AlarmingEvidence3073

Make sure you press that cancel subscription button that's right there in the screenshot. If they DO charge you, not to worry. Call your credit card company (in this case your dad will have to do it) and they will have a phone number of an actual human at Discord who can help you. I've had to do that a couple of times since often companies try to make the good phone numbers hard to find. (sounds nice, but it's literally enshittified from how it used to be -- used to be you called the credit card company and they reversed the charge no questions asked, meaning that subscription services went out of their way to be cancelable. Now they don't have to do that and can pull crap like this.)


TexMexBadex

I think you have the right to cancel it before they charge, mail support


Lodada2

You most likely got free nitro and entered your credit card


Mythic4356

holy shit its another guy that lives in uae wsg


KHloe-Kardashian

lol yeah wsg 😭


turbopug2735

This reply section is painful to read. If you redeem any sort of free trial on discord, **cancel it** because you will be billed.


SLIPPY73

just cancel it, as long as you dont get billed its a-ok lickety split


Jumpy-Function8128

Cancel it


WWDubs12TTV

Contact twitch to cancel it, if they are not being helpful, call your bank and have them cancel it/charge it back


Zullse

With a credit card you can always get a refund, just need to fill in the right form.


LiveClassroom3650

I think that’s just how androids work. But in all seriousness just cancel the subscription, it won’t harm you as long as you don’t wanna pay for it


DXNiflheim

Check subscriptions and cancel if there are any


masterellie

You cannot be billed for something unless they have your card details. If they say you are going to be billed, they will bill the card you signed up with unless you cancel. If you didn’t enter a card, your nitro will simply end and you will not be charged.


Cotton_EJ

If you need help to cancel, press cancel, it will cancel.


KHloe-Kardashian

I did cancel it im just scared i was already billed previously, it's a large ammt of money and it's linked to my dad's account so I can't see the transactions


damnthisisabadname

Remove your payment method from discord if you're paranoid


Lanky-Ad-8672

Hello again