1. Cancelling is unduly hard and tricky, and it is easy to think you have cancelled when you haven’t jumped neatly through all the hoops that Now put in your path when you cancel.
2. Cancelling on Day 6 may be too late. What you get, whether you cancel on Day 1 or Day 7 is indeed a 7 day’s free trial, but the timing the banks require for billing means that the process kicks off during Day 6, and if you cancel after that on Day 6, you get charged. The cancel does apply once the paid month is up though, but this is not much of a consolation.
Complaining to your bank about this is complaining to the people who require this, so you can see how that might go.
3. I have never had a cancellation email.
4. The way to be sure you have cancelled is to go into your account details and look at the membership you have just actioned cancel on, and ensure it isn’t showing a ‘next payment date’. Also recommended is to check no other passes are present, as people used to get caught out by those Sticks that came with a trial month of each of several memberships, only cancelling one where actually you have to cancel the lot, but each individually.
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.
