August 23, 2025 – by Smiler

I signed up for Domestika at a time I wasn’t thinking clearly. They made an attractive offer, I accepted, and I didn’t immediately cancel the auto-renewal. That’s on me. But here’s what’s not on me:

No renewal notice. Ethical companies send reminders before billing you again. Domestika did not.

I wrote Dometika as soon as I got a notification about the charge to my PayPal account which I obviously hadn’t anticipated. No response. Total silence. Refusal to refund.

So I tried to reverse the charge via PayPal. And here’s where it got interesting. No instant refund option on PayPal. I had to submit a request through them and indicate Domestika were non responsive.

Did not hear back from PayPal after 48 hours so I checked the app and saw they were saying Domestika had until December 31 2025 to get back to me. Unacceptable.

So I called Visa to see if they could reverse the charge. The representative at Visa said there was nothing he could do if I had signed the consent form as the company was authorized to put the charge through with auto-renewal enabled. I said that was ridiculous since companies know full well it’s difficult to keep track of subscriptions and that when they are ethical they give consumers a chance to cancel before the renewal date.

Apparently, Visa is being flooded with complaints like mine—unanticipated charges, companies refusing to respond—and even Visa now claims they can’t reverse these charges. They admitted outright that companies are behaving more unethically than ever.

Visa admitted outright that companies are behaving more unethically than ever and that customers need to be extra vigilant to avoid being robbed blind (my words)

I received an email yesterday from PayPal. More information required. 3 days to respond. Fine. I tried to provide it today. Then the interference started.

While filling out the escalation form on my iPhone 16, copy-paste stopped working. Text selection stopped working. Editing became nearly impossible. And when I finally managed to complete the form, the send button vanished. I had to restart the entire process from scratch.

This isn’t a “glitch.” I have over 100 GB of free storage on my phone—Apple’s favorite excuse for malfunction—that when storage is nearly full things malfunction on the device doesn’t apply here. And I’ve seen this pattern before:

Just as I assert myself, just as I take steps to hold someone accountable, suddenly my device begins “misbehaving.” It’s happened so many times now it cannot possibly be a “coincidence”.

I pushed through anyway. I took screenshots—here are four of them below, just a sample of the fight it took to get this claim sent in—the cursor not responding, the screen more or less “playing dead” wherever I tried to select any portion of text.

I also took a screenshot of proof that PayPal received my comment despite the obstruction. Proof that this isn’t imagination, it’s targeted resistance.

Here is what I wrote to them (yes, I am inconvenient, you better believe it):

Domestika – Unauthorized Renewal

Domestika did not notify me of the auto-renewal date. I did not knowingly authorize renewal, did not remember ordering this service, and have not used any portion of it in the first year. I contacted Domestika directly to resolve this, and they have not responded to me, making the process unnecessarily difficult.

Auto-renewals that are preset and require the customer to disable them are a scam—they rely on people forgetting and shift all responsibility onto the customer.

Auto-renewals that are preset and require the customer to disable them are a scam—they rely on people forgetting and shift all responsibility onto the customer.

Citing a “no refunds” policy under these circumstances is not acceptable—it amounts to taking payment for a service I neither agreed to continue nor used.

I expect a full refund. 

PS: The escalation process has been made deliberately obstructive. This is not a “technical glitch.” My iPhone 16 has repeatedly blocked basic functions—copying, pasting, selecting text—only while attempting to submit this claim. The timing and consistency of these interruptions make it clear this is not accidental. This is targeted interference, adding insult to an already unauthorized charge. I expect this to be resolved and a full refund issued immediately.

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This is what consumers are up against now: unethical companies hiding behind auto-renewals, banks admitting they’re powerless, and platforms that turn every attempt at accountability into an obstacle course.

And this is why I’m publishing this here. Not because I think it will make them suddenly ethical—but because I refuse to let them operate in silence.

(Screenshots attached: receipt confirmation, multiple failed attempts to select and submit.)