Course: how not to fall into subscription traps
The cheap trial trap, ads dressed up as articles, long quizzes before the price, pressure on your feelings, extra offers right after you pay, and the cancellation maze. Every lesson has a hands-on example and a short quiz.
6 short lessons. To complete a lesson, answer every quiz question correctly.
- $0.99 today — $585 a year — How the free-trial trap works (~6 minutes)
- The article that’s really an ad — How to spot an ad dressed up as an article (~7 minutes)
- 30 questions about you — and one plan for everyone — How the “free quiz” before the payment screen works (~7 minutes)
- Which buttons they push in your head — The feelings they play on to sell you a subscription (~6 minutes)
- You paid $30 — and gave away $330 — Extra offers: how they get more money out of you right after you pay (~7 minutes)
- The cancellation maze — How to get out of a subscription they won’t let you cancel (~6 minutes)
All apps, authors, publications and reviews in this course are made up. Any resemblance to real products is a coincidence. Only the tricks are real.