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June 5, 2025
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How can I cancel the phantom service I’m being billed for?

  • June 5, 2025
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Hi,

I was cleaning up my accounts once I noticed 2 separate Adobe billings, one to each of two separate banks (separate credit cards).

 

OK, the brief history:

I opened up an account (account_1) using my student email while in college, followed later by a new separate account (account_2) when I become an instructor. Recently I retired from the college where I was an instructor and created an account (account_3) for personal use.

 

I was able to cancel my account_1, since I no longer used it.

 

I was able to cancel the plan/subscription in my account_3, since I no longer needed the functions it offered, but kept the account. This account was only responsible for one of the billing items.

 

But I cannot find, on any of the 3 accounts I had, explaining the billing for the plan/subscription for the other bank.

Basically I’m getting billed for a service I can’t find in my accounts and I can’t cancel.

 

How can I cancel the phantom service I’m being billed for?

 

Thanks in advance to all for their time and help.

Correct answer Robert36925987klh4

@Shivangi_Gupta 


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Shivangi_Gupta
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Community Manager
June 9, 2025

Thanks for tagging me @kglad
Hi @Robert36925987klh4,

I looked into the account details associate with the email address you used to post this thread on the community. As per the details, you have an active subscription to Adobe Acrobat Standard which will continue till May 23, 2026 and will get cancelled after that. There is no other service listed here.

Could you share a screenshot of the invoice where it shows the service you are getting billed for? 

I would recommend you to share the invoice through direct message to avoid sharing any private/confidential info shared on the invoice. Please update this thread once you have sent the direct message.


^Shivangi

Inspiring
June 10, 2025

Hi Shivangi,
Since I can't log into my account (<email removed-kglad>) I've taken a screen shot of my bank statement (attached). It shows the last 4 digits of the credit card used and the amount (with taxes) being billed.

Still no word from my old college. I will ping the department director/manager again to see if they can give some leeway. It's quite amazing that I could be an online instructor for them for over 12 years, and after I retired it seems that they can't give a person temporary access just to cancel my Adobe account. Gesh!

Is there some other way I can cancel that old account and the associated subscription?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Robert Miner PhD(ABD), MSc(Nuclear Medicine), MSc(Molecular Imaging), MedPhys(pgc), BSc(MRS), BSc, EET, CA/P

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kglad
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June 5, 2025
Inspiring
June 6, 2025

Did you purchase for another person?  NO

Did you download a trial version of an Adobe product or service? More than a year ago.

Did you try a free membership to Adobe Stock? NO

Did you purchase a PDF service last year, such as Create PDF? Not that I’m aware of.

 

Inspiring
June 6, 2025

to continue...

The root issues are: I’m getting billed for a service I can’t cancel from. The 2 accounts I can access do not show the billing information for the transaction in question. I can’t seem to access the  3rd account which uses the email I had while with a college, I’m  no longer with the college and their reply to my request to regain temporary access, to clean up this mess, cannot happen due to security reasons so I will have to ask for approvals, which I might be denied.