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T-Mobile: 1-Year Free AAA Subscription - 2024
Why is AAA asking for a credit card number, expiration date and 3-digit code. The membership is FREE for the first year. There is absolutely no reason for AAA to have a T-Mobile Customer’s credit car...
Free services are always like this whether T-Mobile offers it as benefit, or you get it some other way. Of course, they hope you will like the service and will want to continue, at your expense, after the free period is over. You can always remove your payment information, and you can cancel before the free period ends.
I made a list called “Renewals” in the Reminders app of my phone. Immediately after signing up for (or renewing) something, free or paid, I set a reminder for about 2 weeks before the thing is due to renew.
Re. AAA -- my AAA club processed the annual payment about a month before the end of my subscription year. I think this is because of the expense of printing the cards, which are mailed well in advance. I had been on the fence about renewing it. I decided to keep it, but I set next year’s reminder 6 weeks before the end of my year.
Thank you!
I still don’t believe it should be required or even allowed. It is “Free”, so for what purpose do they need your credit card information? Shady.
Thank you for the recommendation on deleting the info after completing the registration.
Have a great Independence Day weekend.
Take care.
Go to privacy.com and set up a free account.
Create a virtual card with like a $20 limit and ONE TIME USE.
AAA will probably authorize it for $1 to ensure it's a valid card (it is).
Wait about 2 weeks, go in to the privacy website and close/cancel that card.
Just the $1 pre-auth that drops off won't be enough trigger the card auto-closing.
This way, if you forget to go back in and cancel after the free year of AAA, they can't charge you since the card will not exist and even if it did, the transaction is over the pre-set limit.
