If you are charging $1 then it is not a 'free' trial, is it? Your explanation that the $1 charge via PayPal is required to verify the account is laughable, because you also charge $1 if a person registers with a credit card. Although on second thought you would need to verify, in order to implement your underhanded practice of automatically converting a membership into a paid contract at the end of the 'free' trial. That is nothing more than a cash grab, even if you do mention during the sign up process that the onus is on the individual to cancel your service during the trial period if they don't want a full membership. Upstanding, reputable companies would never employ that tactic, because to do so would create customer dissatisfaction, and they believe in the concept of puttting their customers first. Somehow I doubt we will find that anywhere in your mission statement.
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