Business Insider writer finds nearly $1,600 in forgotten subscription charges

A Business Insider writer says she discovered nearly $1,600 in annual recurring charges after poring over a Mastercard statement covering November 11 to December 12, 2025. Worried about large credit-card amounts over the holidays, she printed the statement and found unfamiliar recurring transactions, including $19.99 to Uexton on November 11 and $29.55 to Sportelx on November 21; she later Googled and found Uxeton is a gaming site and Sportelx a sports-news service.

Other monthly charges included $29.99 to ESPN New York, $14.99 to Canva, and $11.95 to Audiobookstore.com, plus a $25 Rockin' Jump fee for her son's trampoline-park membership. Having been a victim of fraud before, she at first assumed the charges were fraudulent, but review of prior statements showed the payments occurred on the same day each month and in some cases went back years.

She concluded they were subscriptions signed up for before the family switched banks and cards, and that they had simply failed to cancel some services. She calculated the unnecessary payments totaled $131.88 a month — the equivalent of a family cellphone plan — and almost $1,600 a year.

The writer said the family likely forgot to cancel free or discounted trials, felt embarrassed about the oversight, and found unsubscribing more difficult than signing up because of the hoops involved. She sprang into action and canceled as many fees as she could.

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