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I noticed that the previous (very popular) referral post of $79.99 has expired but just checked and my (along with no doubt many other OzBargainer) $70 referral code is still valid.
Deal - $70 OFF for new customers and referrer also receives $70
I've been a long time HelloFresh user and find they have a wide variety of interesting meals to choose from. Bit expensive full priced but definitely worth it with $70 off :)
Choose 2 people/3 recipes per week (6 serves in total). The total cost will be $5.93. If you want more meals, just pay the difference for the next level up plans.
Note: Some users are reporting $9.99 total depending on location.
Don’t forget to modify or cancel your plan if you only want to take up a one time offer as this is a subscription service.
Offer expires 8 Feb
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Just a word of warning about those just wanting to trial Hello Fresh and cancel. This no problem, but, just ensure you cancel via the website or app within the prescribed time frame.
Just cutting off the payment source (PayPal or single use credit card number) will not cancel the service.
They will continue to deliver to you, bill you, and if you don't pay, they'll hand you over to debit collector.
They set up a new business called.
HelloDebt
any discounts for that one =p
Let's just say you won't be paying with cash if you can't afford the bill 😜🚔⛓️🔒🗝️
@vash5: maybe they will take GME
@wings bubbin boaz: NO!!! You HOLD 💎🙌🌕🚀
What is the prescribed time?
It's dependant on when your order is shipped, but you'd have at least a week to do it. But you may as do it straight after making the first order.
I went in and "skipped" the new few deliveries after the first to make sure I have enough time to remember to cancel.
@Lichen6420: Same
I should note this cautionary warning also to "EVERYPLATE", the discount version of Hello Fresh, which is actually owned by Hello Fresh!
This is nuts. They gain so little by going to debt collectors yet the subscribers will be coping lots of cost/trouble.
Lose lose situation simply………except for the debt collectors of course.
I'm guessing they package their bad debts and sell it off or get a percentage back at zero cost to the collection agency
How about you don't be a dick and tell a company you are cancelling their service instead of just blocking your payment?
Spot on. If you order a service, don't understand the conditions and end up ordering more than you need. Pay up and bon appetite. Who can't use more food?
My previous experience with cancelling Hello Fresh had them "call me to confirm the cancellation". When I didn't pick up the phone, they didn't cancel and sent me the food (and charged my paypal) anyway.
Luckily, Paypal allowed a chargeback.
They are not a utility company. Why would they be stupid enough to send out their products before payment? This is not a charge back scenario. I wouldn't go to a restaurant, order a meal, pay for it, return home, have a good night's rest, wake up, watch some TV then get a telephone call from that same restaurant telling me my freshly prepared meal is getting cold and I owe more money and if I don't pay then they will refer the matter to a debt collector.
It is a subscription service. Your example makes no sense.
I was a big confused too!
In reality all subscription services enter you into a contract, and thus could result in the company perusing customers who just cut off the funds. At the end of the day, very few of us read the terms of service fine print.
A Netflix or magazine subscription requires you to pay before they provide the good or service. You do not get to watch or read them unless you pay and if you cut off payment, they don't continue to provide the good or service and expect you to pay later.
Even Chrisco hampers required you to pay before they sent you food. They would never send food to clients who hadn't paid then ask for payment later.
HelloFresh need to change their subscriptions to have customers pay up front for their food and if a customer wants to ensure their food arrives even if a payment is dishonoured then it should be an opt-in process where they know the repercussions of not keeping their accounts up to date. A simple text message from HelloFresh letting a customer know that their payment failed and asking if they still want their delivery (Reply '1' for Yes or '2' for No) would suffice.
@Guybrush57: Maybe, but take for example someone who relies on this service for day to day meals, elderly or disabled customer without a lot of mobility. It would be difficult to cope if your food for the week didn't turn up because of a card transaction error, easily rectified in a few minutes once the customer is aware, thus negating debt collectors and empty stomachs. I think their subscription model is better for most people, who have a lot of money at their disposal, who want the food and can always pay up. I would assume most people using this service would be in this category.
Those living pay check to pay check would be MUCH better off cooking their own food for the savings. I would have never dreamed of bulk delivered food when I was studying and working part jobs and perpetually broke, it's a luxury. The debt collectors is a safe guard against the types of people, who really aren't financially stable enough to be throwing money away on hello fresh and who may be exploitive of hello freshers subscription services setup.
@lew380: If you can afford to buy HelloFresh then you pay for HelloFresh in advance.
If you cannot afford to buy HelloFresh then you don't get HelloFresh.
Referring customers to debt collectors costs money. Why should genuine HelloFresh customers subsidise that?
@lew380: The debt collectors are a safe-guard so HelloFresh get their money. If they were truly concerned about the consumer they wouldn't be using debt-collectors lol.
They did it to me when I cancelled, I tried on the app and it wasn't working so I did it via PayPal. They went and charged me even though they can see PayPal has cancelled access to them. It bounced. They sent me the food anyway. Three months later ring up to collect and threaten debt-collectors. I called them out because they sent me food I didn't want or pay for, they gave up after a couple tries.
@TogTogTogTog: Your the reason that they need debt collectors, thanks for proving my point!
@lew380: No, they're using debt-collectors because it's cheaper to send the product and seek the costs than to do the right thing.
The company deliberately made a decision on how to structure payments and they chose to send prior to billing. Almost every other business operates in the opposite way, get payment then deliver.
Honestly, the fact they can have these sorts of deals just further proves the point. Rough math here but, if you can get 70-90% off a $100 box, that means the cost of food and shipping is ~$10. If just 1/10 people forget to unregister they're making money.
It's basically AfterPay lol, you make money when people forget.
@TogTogTogTog: There are pros and negatives to either business model, if you don't like their business model, then choose another company. Nothing wrong with after pay either, ive used it in the past and it's great, read the T&C and use it properly and it's a quick loan with a catch, nothing in life is free! I don't understand what your problem is, a lot of services will send the product or do the work and send you an invoice to pay at your discretion, don't order what you can't pay for, it's not a bad business model, everything doesn't have to be like Netflix and magazine subscriptions. You signed up to a company assuming it was just a Netflix clone, it wasn't and you got burned. Think more where you spend your money, it's not a simple world.
Actually I think that's fair enough.
I went to cancel the plan and it says "Canceling your meal plan will pause your deliveries indefinitely."
Does this mean I won't even receive the meals I paid for as it's paused?
Wait after the cutoff which is I think Tuesday before you cancel. I think that message means that you are cancelling too soon.
So cancel it tomorrow even thought I have 5 meals remaining after todays delivery?
I can't even remove my credit card as a payment option as it says I need to add another payment method.
I mean you just click cancel in the app/webpage, why would you cancel the payment source but not the plan. Strange
Not all subscription services allow you to cancel immediately after making the first order, consequently as a mechanism to avoid forgetting, people (including I) would cancel the payment source.