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T-Mobile: 1-Year Free AAA Subscription - 2024
Why is AAA asking for a credit card number, expiration date and 3-digit code. The membership is FREE for the first year. There is absolutely no reason for AAA to have a T-Mobile Customer's credit car...
Free services are always like this whether T-Mobile offers it as benefit, or you get it some other way. Of course, they hope you will like the service and will want to continue, at your expense, after the free period is over. You can always remove your payment information, and you can cancel before the free period ends.
I made a list called "Renewals" in the Reminders app of my phone. Immediately after signing up for (or renewing) something, free or paid, I set a reminder for about 2 weeks before the thing is due to renew.
Re. AAA -- my AAA club processed the annual payment about a month before the end of my subscription year. I think this is because of the expense of printing the cards, which are mailed well in advance. I had been on the fence about renewing it. I decided to keep it, but I set next year's reminder 6 weeks before the end of my year.
Thank you for all of your help and for sharing your experience and wisdom; I appreciate you.
With all scams, identity theft, database breaches, etc., going on in the world these days, I (for one) prefer to have my personal information on as few sites and in as few databases as possible. I realize that neither T-Mobile nor AAA are forcing me to take advantage of the "free" 1-year AAA subscription; I have free choice. I just believe that AAA does not NEED my credit card information for the "free" 1-year subscription; they just WANT it. And, in the immortal words of Mick …
"You can't always get what you want; You can't always get what you want. But - if you try sometime you just might find … You get what you need!"
Maybe I just adopt the tenet that if a company requires my credit card information for something they are offering for "free"; I don't NEED their product/service. Long term - their loss.
Thank you, again, for all the knowledge. Have a great Independence Day weekend! Take care.
