**Forced subscription
**Forced subscription, unauthorized charge, and an extremely frustrating cancellation process**
I purchased a MyHeritage DNA kit because I wanted the DNA kit — nothing more. However, during the purchase process, a subscription was pushed on me in a way that seemed impossible to avoid.
As soon as I realized that purchasing the kit involved a subscription, I cancelled it immediately. I received confirmation of my cancellation, including a message saying they were sorry to see me go and that I could continue using the service free for one month. My understanding from this confirmation was very clear: after that month, my subscription would end and I would not be charged or renewed.
To my surprise, one month later I received an invoice for almost €200 for an annual subscription, and my card was charged.
I logged into my MyHeritage account to find out what had happened and how to cancel, only to discover that **there was no active subscription shown on my account at all**. Nevertheless, my card had been charged for a yearly subscription that I had already cancelled and had not consented to renewing.
I then spent almost an hour clicking through the website trying to find a clear way to resolve the problem or contact someone. Eventually, out of sheer frustration, I went to Facebook, found MyHeritage there, contacted them, and finally received an email address where I could submit my complaint.
This entire experience has been enormously time-consuming and frustrating. I find this subscription and cancellation process misleading, unnecessarily difficult, and completely unacceptable. A customer who cancels a subscription and receives confirmation of that cancellation should not subsequently be charged almost €200 — particularly when their own account shows no active subscription.
I bought a DNA kit. I did not agree to pay almost €200 for a yearly service I had explicitly cancelled.
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