Subscriptions Everywhere! Clean Up Those Forgotten Monthly Fees | WSJ

Everything from your toilet paper to your newspaper now has a subscription. With the help of a money-sucking vacuum cleaner, WSJ's Joanna Stern explains why everything has turned into a service—and how to get your cash back. Photo Illustration: Laura Kammermann/WSJ

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[snapperjw]

Great idea. I’m off to cancel my Wall Street Journal subscription. Money saved 🤣👍🏻

[lindalei]

Ironically, Wall Street Journal also has a monthly subscription model where I cannot cancel online. I tried to cancel the subscription from the online menu, but it keeps saying that it cannot find my account. I heard that I have to call the WSJ customer service to cancel. Can you reflect this issue back to your company and ask them to fix this?

[NelsonNGray]

Wall Street Journal makes it so difficult to cancel.... Kind of funny how the most recent subscription I cancelled a month ago was their newspaper.

[thomascooke]

You can just tell it’s gonna be a Joanna Stern video 😂

[JustinY.]

Oh boy I can't wait to pay a monthly subscription for access to my Wifi connected shoes in the future

[BasharZapen]

I like Joanna's videos. They're always creative!

[Chickenhunter]

That reminds me, I need to cancel my WSJ subscription.

[Bjaldes]

How much cash do you have to make, to not know what subscriptions you have?

[pyrex]

How tf do people forget what they are paying for and then complain about not having money?

[lancegordon]

Just saying, WSJ is difficult to unsubscribe to 👀 👀 👀

[qncsc]

*real question* how do i cancel the governments subscription ...
i never opted-in. yet every month government keeps taking taking taking taking taking ...
and i see NO results from all the money they take every month
yet every month they keep taking -- and for what --- more wars, roads already paid for, bureaucrats

[davidellis]

They are after one thing, your 💸 ! Protect it or be exploited.

[infini.tesimo]

You pay for convenience and are in control of the situations, your negligence to not be mindful of payments is your own fault.

[romankolosovskiy]

What is really ironic is that @WSJ makes the cancellation process the hardest possible by requiring a subscriber calling a 1-800 number to cancel. Yet at the same, they cite a California law requiring online cancellation

[pathan_hs]

No money was lost or harmed in making of the video....😂😂😂
Creativity = Joanna Stern👏👏👏

[immcguyver]

Journalist: Step 1, Make a list of subscriptions you have.
Step 2, Cancel the subscriptions you dont use enough...
Readers: Cancel our subscriptions to Wall Street Journal....
HR Office: Journalist is offered a few months pay for severance next week.

[rayedomar]

I just planned to 'Make a List of Subscription' yesterday and here she posted this!


| weirdly enough, I even subscribed for WSJ and WSJ+ | not that I complain though

[Clubbeaux]

Good stuff, and she can start close to home -- the reason I'm never subscribing to the WSJ again is because they make it so difficult to unsubscribe.

[cherifbar]

My favourite subscription is to the WSJ and I will never cancel it!

[stueygriffith]

why sell something ONCE when you sell it ONCE A MONTH?


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