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Starburner
Newbie

Signed up for £12 for 6 months / month thinking it was £12 for 6 months. Cooling off period????

I accidentally signed up for £12 / month for 6 months thinking it was £12 for 6 months 

I think it must have been unclear on this

Surely there is a legal requirement for a cooling off period ?

How can I raise this?

Is there an ombudsman?

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RoyB
Legend

@Starburner 

There is a cooling-off period, but the rules are slightly different for services that start immediately, where you have to waive your rights to a full refund during the period, unless you delay starting the service until the cooling period is over.

So you still get 14 days to back out, but you must pay pro rata for the time you have had the services. In this case, it could be up to £6, so get in quick, and ask Now to cancel them.

How you raise it is that you contact Now via Live Chat from this link:-

Chat online

Avoid ‘Get Help Quickly’ on this screen. This leads to the Nowbot, an AI bot that might well assist you in navigating the Help; but as you need to talk to Live Chat, you have already gone beyond that, and all the Nowbot can bring you is frustration.

And yes, there is an Ombudsman. But using this service is a long-drawn out process; the whole six months at issue here will have been long past and gone, and it is necessary to have reached a deadlock with Now before you can use it, and this is unlikely to happen.

Also you will need to have a copy of the offer that you signed up to, from which you can draw attention to the ambiguity you saw; do you have this?

Here is the current offer, quite clearly showing ‘£12 a month for 6 months’, so no ambiguity there. Is it possible that this is the offer you saw, and you missed that bit?

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Nonetheless, Now don’t want any pressed men, so talk to Live Chat, and they should be able to extricate you from this.

(NB: I don’t work for Now. This is purely customer to customer advice above)

Set a Payment PIN on your account so that no-one but you can buy memberships on it. Check your bank accounts monthly for any other unexpected payments to Now. That way you can at least nip them in the bud, while you and Now figure out whose fault they are.
gavs82008
Legend 5
Legend 5

@Starburner 

The offer does say it's £12 a month for 6 months.
https://www.nowtv.com/choose-your-entertainment-membership

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FYI that I do not work for NOW, just a NOW customer trying to help