A service always wants to take over my lifetime account

[brannsiu]

I subscribed to a service approximately 5 years ago. I do not want to name them here, sorry. At that time they had an option of lifetime subscription which worth the money so much and I took this option. As their
company develops they have stopped selling their lifetime account and in the past few years they have
been trying to persuade me into "upgrading" my account to VIP or something but the new duration will become 1 or 2 years. Obviously I believe that their real reason behind is to take over my lifetime account.

Over the past few years they have been popping up notification messages of different types persuading me to upgrade, the upgrade is often very easy by one-click and the notification often comes up, it is very dangerous and I am feeling annoyed and I am now becoming very careful not to accidentally click on the upgrade button.

Does anyone have similar experience? Do you think they will force to stop my service rudely one day if I do not surrender? The service is located in Europe. Any opinion?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Odds are they can just cancel you at some point when they feel like it especially if this is a VPN service

 

[Nemesia]

Well they were asking a 1 payment for life before and now they are selling subscriptions in the form of one or two years making more money. They don't want people on their service for free so they are trying to "upgrade" you to their new style of subscription. Unless they tell you "From that date your subscription is over" I wouldn't worry about it.

 

[brannsiu]

Well they were asking a 1 payment for life before and now they are selling subscriptions in the form of one or two years making more money. They don't want people on their service for free so they are trying to "upgrade" you to their new style of subscription. Unless they tell you "From that date your subscription is over" I wouldn't worry about it.

Is there any other possible marketing or tricky ways for an experienced business to take over my account?

I do strongly feel that they have been working more hard recently in hope of taking over my account. They hid a lot of unattractive terms and made traps, I think some other lifetime subscribers may have already upgraded to their VIP service but it is actually very stupid. All kinds of new notification layout in hope of tricking me into clicking on the upgrade button

 

[Ralston18]

In overall agreement with the previous posts.

For the most part it is very likely that the terms of your original "lifetime" agreement allows them to eventually do what ever they want.

However I am not a lawyer so I can only speculate about that.... No legal advice here.

This:

"All kinds of new notification layout in hope of tricking me into clicking on the upgrade button ."

Do they have access to a credit card number or some other form of automated payment? How did you pay for the original subscription?

If so go into your current account and delete that information. Or otherwise make any form of payment impossible if you do accidentally "upgrade".

And maybe start looking for a new service....