Question: I was renting an apartment pursuant to a one-year lease. I made plans to move to another community and had no intention of renewing the lease. On the day I went to turn in my keys to the ...

Just like negative option marketing, otherwise known as “unauthorized charges,” automatic contract renewals tend to get consumers hot under the collar. Jamie, of Raleigh, N.C., is upset at Consumer ...

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Question: I’m on the board of our homeowners association and was shocked when our management company’s contract was supposed to terminate, but they stayed on! We wanted to get rid of them but learned ...

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You know how important it is to read a contract carefully before signing up for a long-term, costly account, such as a magazine subscription or satellite radio service. But there is one clause to pay ...

Chris O’Brien of Pasadena is an actor. He gets some jobs through casting websites like Casting Frontier. But recently, it wasn’t a job from Casting Frontier that caught O’Brien’s eye, but a credit ...

An automatic renewal means you could get locked into a contract year after year and get charged over and over again and not realize it until it's too late! The good news is, we found a Pennsylvania ...

SeaWorld visitors can use a monthly payment plan to buy annual passes, but the credit-card charges don’t end after a year —they keep recurring until the customer opts out. That part of its EZpay ...