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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 card information, UNLESS - it is not truly FREE for the first year. If that is the case, I do not want the membership, anyway. If that is the truth (that it is not free), shame on you T-Mobile for not living up to your promise.
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, gramps28.
Yes. Some things appear good on the surface; then, when you dig a little deeper, you learn everything is not as advertised.
Have a wonderful weekend. Take care.
I use to have AAA to get the discount on my Simple Choice plan but when I migrated to the 55+One plan it wasn't a discount available plan so I dropped it.
After I dropped it I figured out it wasn't worth it. I have road assistance on my driver's insurance and living in the Phoenix area ADOT offers free roadside assistant for flat tires, you just feel obligated to tip but they show up faster and get you back up running faster.
So, after I entered my credit card information for the "free" 1-year AAA Subscription, i was linked to a page where I was supposed to create an account on the AAA site. I was directed to enter my email address and then a password. I created a password and confirmed my password; at which time I was directed to make my "password stronger by adding punctuation", which I did. However there was no "button" on the page to "Submit", so I hit the "Return" key, which took me to a page that told me I was unauthorized to be on that page.
Based on my personal experience with T-Mobile & this. "Free" AAA Subscription, I don't believe hoops and aggravation are worth it. I would not recommend this to any other customer. Nothing is truly "free".
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.
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.
¡Gracias!
I still don't believe it should be required or even allowed. It is "Free", so for what purpose do they need your credit card information? Shady.
Thank you for the recommendation on deleting the info after completing the registration.
Have a great Independence Day weekend.
Take care.
It's the same reason the free Netflix asks for it also.
Once you redeem the offer remove the credit card.
