Can You Get a Refund From The League

Usually not. The League says refunds are generally not given, and who reviews a request depends on how you paid. Apple handles purchases made on an iPhone, Google handles purchases made on Android, and The League itself handles credit card payments made in the app through Stripe.

Where you ask depends on where the money went.

If you paid through the App Store on an iPhone, the request goes to Apple, not to The League. If you paid through Google Play on Android, it goes to Google. If you paid by credit card inside the app, through Stripe, The League handles it itself.

Work that out before you write to anyone. A request sent to the wrong company only costs you time, and time matters when a renewal is coming up. When you ask, have three details to hand: the item, the date you paid, and whether the money went through Apple, Google or a card.

The League's terms say special refund terms apply to members in certain places. Most of the list is American states. The first four on the list are Arizona, California, Colorado and Connecticut. Then come Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and New York. North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Wisconsin are on it too. Outside the United States, it covers the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland.

If you live in one of those places, read that section of the terms before you ask for anything. The details are in the terms themselves, and they are what your request should rest on.

If you live anywhere else, plan on the general rule, which is no refund.

Men often treat canceling and getting a refund as the same thing. They are not. Canceling stops the next payment. It does not return the last one.

The League's terms say you keep your subscription benefits until the paid period ends. So the realistic question is rarely whether you can get money back. It is whether you want the next period to start.

The same terms say virtual items are final and non-refundable. That covers League Tickets and whatever you spend them on.

So a bundle of tickets bought on a slow evening stays bought. A Rematch or a Boost you regret stays spent. Extras are the purchases most worth thinking about before you tap buy, because afterward there is nothing to reverse.

A timeout on The League hides you from other members, but The League says the subscription goes on renewing itself until you switch that off.

Men who pause and forget can end up paying for weeks they never used, and since refunds are generally not given, that money stays gone. If you are stepping away for more than a short break, cancel the renewal as well as pausing. You keep the paid features until the period ends, so canceling early costs you nothing.

With refunds off the table in most cases, all your saving happens before you pay.

Start with the shortest period on offer. You can always sign up for longer once The League has earned it. On the day you pay, add the renewal day to your calendar with an alert a few days before.

Treat extras the same way. Before you buy tickets or a Boost, name the one thing you will use it for this week. If you cannot, wait until you can.

a dating coach's approach to paid dating features fits a purchase you cannot undo. He tests one thing at a time, keeps it if the results clearly improve, and drops it if they do not. He also warns that paid features multiply what is already working. If your conversations are going nowhere for free, paying mostly shows the same thing to more women, and that is the money men most often wish they had back.

Once you have paid, the only way to get value back is to use what you bought.

Write to every match within a day. Keep the first message short and about something she chose to show you. Answer her on the day she replies. Once she is plainly enjoying it, propose a drink on a named evening and get her number.

Then judge the purchase at the end of the period by one number: how many evenings out it put in your calendar. That tells you far more about whether to pay again than any refund policy could.