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You need to verify email, then validate address, then add a credit card (no paypal), and then press a button labeled "Enjoy my free month".

Except when you add a credit card, they try to bill you for 20EUR right away.



Yes, but they clearly state - "To register your payment information, we will ask your bank for a 20,00€ debit preauthorization. This will appear on your bank statement and be automatically released after 7 days.".

This is a fairly common practice to weed out stolen credit-cards and to make sure you are real subscriber/customer, no biggie.


20 eur is quite uncommon, it's usually 1 or 2 usd/eur. So I skipped reading these two lines of unassuming gray text and entered details of my disposable visa with like 5 usd on it.


I think you are quite unique in 'skipping text' written nearby text boxes where you are entering your credit-card number, expiry date and CVV2.

I would recommend changing that behaviour ASAP ;)


dev here; made the text bold, and validation is now 2 euros :)


now you just need to enable paypal




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