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Adell
@Adell

If you've even gone through the process of cancelling your account you'll know that Adobe always throw in a special deal to keep you on board. Even it you're not going to cancel, going through the process could land you with a 30-50% discount on the product for a short time.

You should also know that if you are going to cancel then you need to pay 50% of the remaining cost of your membership for the annual cycle.

While 50% for Adobe Stock was only $60, the Creative cloud was the $250 I mentioned earlier.

It was when the different options were presented to me that I got the idea. One of the options was to downgrade to a Photography only license. This was only $15 a month, so even if they started my annual license all over again I would still only have to pay $180 for the next year instead of a $250 cancellation fee.

Then I realised that part of the offer from Adobe is that you can cancel any subscription within the first 14 days without having to pay the cancellation fee.

So I did just that, and here's the steps

Start the cancellation process for your current license

  • When offered a discount or to switch to another plan, choose the cheapest new plan (for me it was photography)
  • Once your membership is updated, start the cancellation process again immediately
  • The cancellation fee is now $0.

There you have it, a little loophole, and I even got a refund to help offset the cancellation I paid on the Stock license.


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in reply to @Adell's post:

Most of the places I've ever worked and most of the people I've seen still use Photoshop never updated from CS6, the last version you could just pay for once and have as a normal program on your computer not forever subject to whatever additional demands Adobe decided to tack on arbitrarily, and that's now over a decade old...