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Ask HN: Microsoft has made it impossible to unsubscribe from Office 365

5 pointsby someotherpersonover 1 year ago
I spoke to my father and he mentioned how he&#x27;s been trying to unsubscribe from Office 365 for months unsuccessfully. He went so far as to replace his bank card and he&#x27;s still being billed.<p>I was of the view that it might be a user issue, so I asked for his password and tried myself.<p>1. He somehow ended up on the business plan with his regular Outlook email, and you cannot log into the business portal with a non-work or non-school email.<p>2. No subscriptions show up on his account<p>3. I looked to find the original subscription emails in case he was using a different account somehow and, no, it&#x27;s the same email<p>4. Microsoft has an &quot;advocate&quot; process[0] where you can request someone to help you cancel... but it&#x27;s broken and raises errors<p>5. I spoke to Microsoft and they said they&#x27;re from the consumer side and can&#x27;t access billing for business subscriptions, and sent me in a direction that gets stuck on the same issue as #1<p>6. I mentioned this to them and they said they&#x27;ll have management call back within the hour. That was a week ago.<p>Through to today, my father is still being billed and caught in this quagmire: it&#x27;s a business plan but he cannot access the business portal to administer it. I believe he&#x27;s been paying for about two years now and doesn&#x27;t use the service.<p>Does anyone have any avenues to have this resolved?<p>[0] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.microsoft.com&#x2F;en-us&#x2F;office&#x2F;cancel-a-microsoft-365-subscription-46e2634c-c64b-4c65-94b9-2cc9c960e91b

2 comments

delogosover 1 year ago
If the way companies like Google and Amazon act are considered, doing a chargeback through your bank is likely to get the subscription immediately canceled (and the accompanying account banned as well).
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ok1984over 1 year ago
Sometimes the easiest way could be raising the phone and calling support instead of trying to fix it from a broken web-site.