Man gets 'petty revenge' on music company who refused to cancel his subscription
A man has recounted how he took revenge on a company that refused to cancel his subscription to a music service which eventually resulted in the offending firm being forced to do as he asked. Talking about an incident where he signed up to have albums sent to him through the post, he said the deal was that he signed up for the service and he would get free records but would also be sent three records a month of their choice, which he had to pay for or return.
He said he used the service for a few months but often had to return the music in prepaid envelopes, which he had a stock of as he had kept many records at the beginning of the service. However as the quality of choice had quickly deteriorated, and as he was having to return so many albums he ended up wanting to cancel the subscription.
Writing in Reddit's 'Malicious Compliance', he said: "I contacted the company to cancel the subscription but that's when they nuked me by saying that I'd agreed on a 36-month rolling contract, from each agreed purchase. Waiting three years to get rid of this was not an option because I'd need to return every month to my parents to return the albums. I told them I was moving away, they were not interested thinking they had me and they did.
The company told him he had to continue sending stuff back that he did not want and that they would start ending the contract when he stopped buying albums, but he informed them that had already happened. He then decided to start not only sending back "garbage albums" but other stuff in their prepaid envelopes.
He said: "My Dad did building work on the side of his main job so we had hardcore and cement in abundance, at the back of the house. So I got one of the first plastic prepaid envelopes and filled it with hardcore and wet cement waiting for it to set. It was almost too heavy for me to carry to the post office, but I got it there. The company had to pay by weight for whatever was in the envelope, so it would have cost a lot. I phoned them two weeks after that, I mentioned I had quite a few envelopes and they wisely decided to cancel my account immediately. If it looks to good to be true, then it is."
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Other users of the site said they too had been caught out by similar services, and agreed that using the prepaid envelopes to get the company to comply was a good idea. One poster said: "Your trick works well with any group that sends you unsolicited 'return postage guaranteed' envelopes. Pro Tip: you don't need to make it fit inside the envelope, you only need the envelope attached so the address can be read. I've found tape works well for this. The post is legally required to send it, and the addressee is legally required to pay for it.
Some posters suggested sending objects such as bricks too, but another user warned that: "That doesn't really work anymore, the post office knows what's up with the bricks and stuff. However, you can totally stuff the envelopes with your other junk mail, it'll almost definitely go through. The companies pay by the ounce."
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