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To avoid a cancellation fee with Adobe, follow these steps:

1. Change Your Current Plan: First, switch your existing Adobe plan to a different one. This is because Adobe offers a 14-day cancellation period for any new plan.

2. Cancel the New Plan: Wait until the next day, then cancel this new plan. Due to the 14-day cancellation policy, you should be able to do this without incurring any fees.

Explanation: Adobe's policy allows you to cancel a plan within 14 days of purchase without a penalty. By switching to a new plan and then cancelling it within this window, you effectively bypass any cancellation fees that would apply to your original plan.

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Adobe is the new comcast... Cancellation fees?

There is also no security in using any other tool, especially with this predatory precedent, and especially if you're designing in a web browser.

My best option is to use a copy of CS6 on a computer I keep offline, really all the content aware and other features issued since CS6 aren't that necessary for me, and by going old school, it sets my artistry apart from everyone else.

It's long overdue for people to resist and reject the price/service manipulation fetish model that is exhibited by many major software companies. These companies shouldn't be saddling consumers with higher and higher prices and monthly subscriptions, and cancellation fees... Prices should be going down over time, not up as products mature.

There is no longer an "older software" sale bin at the computer software store for people that don't have volumes of wealth to spend, and that's pretty crazy to think about... And then on the flip side arbitrarily and illegally sunsetting older software whenever they wish. These companies are not even respecting the EULAs they've issued prior, and scraping older promises off the Internet over time.

Fraudulent exploitative software buy/update/service schemes, even in long-trusted companies, are becoming rampant, it's likely profit desperation, but also highly predatory in all the wrong ways.

I've done this with hotel stays. No fee to change a reservation, but large penalty to cancel with less than 48 hours notice. So you change your reservation for a week later, then cancel it.

Smart move and thanks for this!

This sounds like that story of the elder withdrawing $20 at the bank:

Elder: I want to withdraw $20 from my account.

Teller: You can withdraw $500 minimum here, or use the ATM for small change.

Elder: I'll withdraw $500 then.

Teller: Here you go. Anything else?

Elder: I want to deposit $480 in my account.

If they change the terms and conditions surely you're entitled to cancel your plan without a fee?

Even if you don't right now, you should be able to.

Sure. We all know that’d right. Everybody at Adobe knows too.

We also all know that they have the best dark patterns and just-not-too-sketchy business practices. Everybody at Adobe knows too.

Good luck with the fight.

The alternative I tried (successfully):

1. Switch your payment method to PayPal.

2. Cancel the subscription using the Paypal UI

(That was a couple of years ago so I’m not sure if this works)

This leaves some kind of outstanding balance on your Adobe account from what I remember, which I suspect they can chase you for with debt collection.

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