Membership rate up despite promise

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Avatar of Belahege

Everybody knows that membership is up. If you were a member before the hike in September, you were insured that your rate a service would stay the same. Right?!

And then my membership went up by a dollar out of the blue. When I asked Billing what is going on, they said that it has to do with taxes in my region. (Canada). This makes sense because obviously there was tax on the pre-Sept rate. Canada has not introduced any new taxes. 

Is anybody in the same boat? Would love to hear from you. Cheers. 

Avatar of Lagomorph

Fear not. We will all have a whip-round for you

Avatar of Belahege

Lagomorph, I guess you failed to notice the message in the empty chat window: Please be relevant and kind. 

But really you couldn't say just nothing? What a waste of our time. 

 

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
Belahege wrote:

Everybody knows that membership is up. If you were a member before the hike in September, you were insured that your rate a service would stay the same. Right?!

And then my membership went up by a dollar out of the blue. When I asked Billing what is going on, they said that it has to do with taxes in my region. (Canada). This makes sense because obviously there was tax on the pre-Sept rate. Canada has not introduced any new taxes. 

Is anybody in the same boat? Would love to hear from you. Cheers. 

 

Taxes are being collected in many regions but the base price site memberships that remained active didn't change.  

 

You can check your account billing history and you will probably find that no taxes had been collected previously. That's a relatively new process.

Avatar of ericthatwho

Taxes are the work of Satan.

And free membership is up.

Avatar of Belahege

Thank you, Martin. It looks like it is a new Canadian tax because it doesn't coincide with the Sept. rate hike, but kicks in in October. 

Avatar of Belahege

Taxes are the work of Jesus. 

Selfishness is the work of Satan.

Thank you for the possibility of free membership, Chess.com