30 tips and hacks to never paying full price on Amazon again

21. Easily get a refund if you forget to cancel your Prime free trial

Earlier in this slideshow, we spoke some about utilizing the 30 day free trial for Amazon Prime. For people who only rarely order things from the website, it can be a useful way of getting in on the Prime benefits for one month out of the year. To make things the most smooth, you can even turn off the auto-renew for the Prime membership after starting the trial. In other words, once the 30 day trial begins, you can immediately set it to not charge you at the end of the 30 days. You can then enjoy all of Prime’s benefits until the end of that 30th day.

But what happens if you forget to do this? Say you don’t turn off the auto-renew option and the expiration date creeps up on you faster than you wanted. Maybe you had zero plans to start a membership with Prime, only wanting to use the 30 day trial and that’s it. Now you have a charge of about a hundred bucks coming out of your bank account, which is pretty hefty just for forgetting to turn off the auto-renew option.

Fortunately, this is a mistake which is very easy to fix. Don’t feel like you’re stuck with Prime and out a hundred bucks. Amazon’s process for reversing this charge is very painless, requiring only a quick message to their customer support. Rather quickly, they will reimburse you for the entire charge, though you will obviously lose your access to Prime at the same time.

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