In case anyone cares... I had sent in a letter to ECA asking them to cancel my membership on 11/22, and I got a reply from them today. So it took almost a month. It's a form letter which says they have cancelled my membership and removed all of my credit card information.

The best part is the last sentence of the letter: "To re-join the ECA, please visit http://www.theeca.com"

I just got the "Membership Cancellation" email as well.

I also laughed at that last line in the email.

Did you use a letter, or the Google card?

So wait.. They require you to physically send in a letter to cancel? But they reply via email that it is done? Again, why not just let it all occur via email or through the website?

I just got my cancellation confirmation as well. I sent in a free Google card and also was listed in the mass CAG cancellation letter that had 700-some members.

Damn, no heads up on the CAG cancellation letter? I would have been down for that.

you can now turn off auto renew and you can also cancel now online...

Along those lines, are they still collecting names? Or was it a one-time thing?

Edit Nevermind, saw foxdvd's post.

Wait ... they sent you a cancellation e-mail copied to 700 other people with all your e-mail addresses visible to all?

Where?

Nevermind got it.

Joke's on them: that credit card is now cancelled for fraudulent activity. Good luck billing it.

How do you cancel online? I didn't see an option for that.

I did this a few days ago...and now I can't log in to see..but if I remember correctly when I turned off auto renew, it went to a page asking if I just wanted to cancel right then...which I did...

Yup. I just did that exact thing. and they closed my account immediately.

Thanks, that seemed to work

Now watch them reinstate the Amazon discount now that everyone is terminating their memberships.

Thanks for the heads up, went ahead canceled.

No, the cancellation e-mail was just to me. I was just saying I sent a free Google postcard and then also put my name in for the mass cancellation letter that the guys at CAG put together and sent in.

Well, this is what I wanted in the first place. I wonder if there's any problem with turning off auto-renewal while remaining a member for now. We'll see, I guess....

It appears to be two separate steps. I just cancelled the auto-renew at first, but then I decided to not mess with it and went back and finished it off totally. I didn't want to have to worry about it in the future.

Cancelled and told them why.

Wait, did they state that you can now cancel online? I mean, they pretty much had this functionality before and claimed it didn't work/wasn't supposed to be there, so I'm still a little wary.

It's definitely different than it was before. I'm inclined to say the negative publicity they received was more than enough motivation for them to get their shit together. I went through and cancelled my membership, so if a charge appears on my credit card I'll be disputing it.

I did the Google card thing, but I also started a complaint with the BBB and went back and forth with that for a while. I have no clue which actually worked, more than likely the card though I imagine.

Just to confirm everything I just went to the site to sign in and check things out. When I try to sign in I get this:

I did the Google card cancellation but am still showing as active.