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This issue came up for me recently when signing up for Audible. You get 1 free audiobook/month but have to verify a credit card before the free trial month. I i

by macu 6y ago

This issue came up for me recently when signing up for Audible. You get 1 free audiobook/month but have to verify a credit card before the free trial month. I imagined this was to cut down on users who sign up with throwaway accounts to get free books. What gets me is you can buy $10 prepaid credit cards and sign up repeatedly anyway, spending your $10 elsewhere. Completely opposed to the practise, however, when it enrols you in automatic payments which you have to opt out of before your free trial expires.

mgbmtl 6y ago
Have you tested this? Prepaid cards usually don't support subscriptions, which is a way of avoiding that. (I work with handling online payments, and tried this before, but it failed for my test-case)
- gramakri 6y ago
  Do you know if stripe supports identifying these cards?
  - mgbmtl 6y ago
    I haven't tested it with Stripe, but according to their docs, yes: https://support.stripe.com/questions/find-the-type-of-card-a-customer-is-using https://support.stripe.com/questions/find-the-type-of-card-a...