"bad and incomplete advise." ?? it's not just harsh but rude!!!
I respect everyone here, especially people with years of experience and much superior "Title". I acknowledge I am relatively new compare with most members here. I am still learning. But I am not in school and not writing tests and this is not a job, I don't need people to comment Good or Bad to my "performance". Sometimes we see comment that might not fit 100%, or some people's answer is out of topic, for myself, I usually just added the extra information I find fit unless the answer is 100% wrong.
Back to my Autopay comment. It's just a different ways but I wouldn't even consider it bad. Nice member here could surely add the comment telling the "unnecessary outcomes" that Autopay bonus would have gone the first month when the account is reactivated. I agree and I accept that I could have emphasized that.
As to if people still have available fund more than than the cost of the plan then removing Autopay would still mean nothing. True. But OP didn't mentioned that he is in such situation.
Using Suspend button is good, i agree. You stress to do it as late as you can, True. However, this only work if the person remember his/her next renewal day and remember to remind himself/herself to do so. So, it is a "If this then do this situation", I would say
The reason I jumped into idea of Autopay instead of Suspend the account now is that I think the OP could just do it now and not worry about not remembering.
Of course there could be many different 'if this then do this situations', or 'it depends' or other scenarios, we try to cover as much as we can , as much as we remember. But at the end of the day, we try to answer based on OP questions.
I admire you are good thinking and all round answers. You covered all the situation like a technical writer. Some people like it. However, there are also people who wants direct answer to direct question. Extra information, while is helpful, it could also be confusing.
Looking around at the replies in this community. Many of us give one particular solution while there are in fact more ways. Some are better, some are worse. Some are good for such situations, some are good for others. In a perfect world we should be all provide all the possible ways to a questions in different situations. BUT.. we are not writing a knowledgebase ourselves. Also, if that is the case, maybe we should all answer by referring to a set of model answers instead.
