How to safely try free trials, without fear of losing money

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Step 1: go to privacy.com and create an account

Step 2: for every account u want to create, create a virtual credit card, and use that to register for the free trial.

Step 3: When you are creating the virtual credit card, set the maximum spending limit to be 2 or 3 dollars, so that even if they do try to bill you, it will be denied.

Step 4: Cancel the card just before the trial ends and before they try to bill you.

Step 5: once trial resets make a new email with https://10minutesemail.net/ and make new account with a new burner card and new details.

Step 6: Rinse and repeat for any and every account that has a free trial.

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NOTE: Especially useful for VeePeeEns (I recommend Express or Proton for best speed)

also usable for Netflix, Hulu, Prime video, and Spotify.

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EDIT: privacy.com only works in USA, for other countries, use Revolut.

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DONT FORGET you should also cancel whatever subscriptions you sign up for instead of JUST canceling the temp card.

Because some companies will permanently ban or delete your account if they try to charge a card and it fails.

Only necessary for things where you still want access to the account if it has free stuff or whatever.

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Probably going to try this for Paramount+. They’ve been advertising a lot of decent stuff lately but Netflix, Hulu, and HBO Max are already $50 a month. I can’t bring myself to add anymore.

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Only works in the USA

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For Europeans, sign up with Revolut or N26.

Another tip, use vonage to setup mobile numbers if you need to enter a number.

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The last time I used Privacy for trials they would block your transactions to the merchant after 3+ cards to prevent abuse, and from being blocked from the merchant entirely. Not sure if that’s still the case though since they updated their cards system.

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Any recommendations on how to get a virtual credit card? Do you buy gift visa cards with a low balance?

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It asks for a phone number and I can never go beyond that step.

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Do you use your real name for privacy[dot]com, Revolut and N26?

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I usually use prepaid cards with a few cents left on them for this

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set the minimum spending limit to be 2 or 3 dollars

Did you mean “maximum”?

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Would the virtual cards work for online purchases overseas? I was going to subscribe to a VPN, only to find out the payment is processed in Estonia or something sketchy. It triggered fraud alerts from my bank. Thankfully, it wasn’t fraud, but it’s a real pain to pay for anything not in the US, I have to call the bank, and tell them the exact amount, country, and time zone, and they have to allow it.

I could have the bank turn off this feature, but I feel that’s too risky. Would be nice to have a virtual card I could use for this, not tied to my real account.

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Doesn’t work outside of US

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so this is how those mfs say “I have a method of getting 1 month netflix oooooh” and sellf or 5$. In the end it was at the lowly pits of piracy

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Anything like privacy.com for Canada?

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What happens if I forget to cancel the temp card?

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Or just pirate everything :slight_smile:

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I actually wanted to ask this, is a there a possibility to get into trouble with this stuff? since I have the ability to rotate numbers with Wise and Revolut but I never tried it in a fear of legal trouble but maybe I’m too paranoid?

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i tried something like that with lucid.app and it said that the card had no credit on it despite them saying that they only wanted the card details so that they can charge me after the trial ends not before, any ideas.

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Paramount has some decent shows, but their entire GUI is just too glitchy. I’d stay away from them anyways.