“When you purchase the Services on a subscription basis (e.g., monthly, every 3 months or annually), you agree that you are authorizing recurring payments, and payments will be made to Microsoft by the method and at the recurring intervals you have agreed to, until the subscription for that Service is terminated by you or by Microsoft.”
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Charges continue automatically until termination occurs, meaning users bear responsibility for actively cancelling to stop payments.
Users who subscribe must affirmatively terminate to stop recurring charges; payments do not stop automatically.
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"When you purchase the Services on a subscription basis (e.g., monthly, every 3 months or annually), you agree that you are authorizing recurring payments, and payments will be made to Microsoft by the method and at the recurring intervals you have agreed to, until the subscription for that Service is terminated by you or by Microsoft.Excerpt from Xbox's Terms of Use
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Charges continue automatically until termination occurs, meaning users bear responsibility for actively cancelling to stop payments.
Users who subscribe must affirmatively terminate to stop recurring charges; payments do not stop automatically.
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