German Train Ticket Subscription Disaster

>Buy a train ticket in Germany for 50 euro >Learn that's actually a subscription and I have to cancel it before the 10th day of the month and then pay for another month >Ok, let's do that >There's no payment information anywhere in the DB portal because the subscription it's already cancelled >Ok, I guess they actually don't charge you for the next month if you cancel on time >10th day of November passes, I get an email reminding me to pay for the ticket >I’m confused and write to support to confirm I actually still own them because there's no option to pay >silence >another month passes >I get an email from a collections company that says I now owe them 90 euro because reasons >the next day I get a cookie-cutter response from DB saying they totally understand my “difficult financial situation” but they've already sold my debt WTF if wrong with this country, all I wanted was to eat curry wurst and see some fucking castles.

A greentext-style screenshot recounts someone buying a German train ticket, accidentally subscribing, failing to find a way to pay after cancellation, and eventually receiving a debt-collection demand. The punchline is the absurd bureaucratic escalation, contrasting the simple tourist fantasy of eating currywurst and visiting castles with a confusing subscription and collections nightmare. EN: A greentext-style screenshot recounts someone buying a German train ticket, accidentally subscribing, failing to find a way to pay after cancellation, and eventually receiving a debt-collection demand. The punchline is the absurd bureaucratic escalation, contrasting the simple tourist fantasy of eating currywurst and visiting castles with a confusing subscription and collections nightmare.

• @eternalclassic / 81053 2025-12-30