Audible: cancellation problem
Cancel on the Account Details page on Audible.com or by phone or chat; app-store sign-ups cancel with Apple or Google. Use credits first, because they expire at cancellation.
What does this mean?
Grade B (good: mostly official pages; check the flagged values before relying on them). 100% of 9 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites; only 9 sourced values, so the entry is thin.
Collect
- cancellation confirmation email
- number of unused credits
- date cancelled
Steps
Spend any unused credits before cancelling. Credits expire immediately when the membership is cancelled.
Sign in on Audible.com and cancel on the Account Details page.
If you cannot cancel online, call Customer Service or use chat after signing in.
If you signed up in the Audible app through Apple or Google, cancel through that app store.
More contacts for this issue
Facts you can cite
- Process
"You may cancel your membership plan and any subscriptions by visiting your account details page provided on Audible.com," or by contacting Customer Service by telephone or chat. Mobile app sign-ups are cancelled through Apple or Google.
Source: audible.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
"Credits expire immediately upon the cancellation or termination of your membership." Credits have no cash value.
Source: audible.com, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
Trial members can cancel through Account Details before the end of the trial period to avoid paid membership. Audible may place a temporary authorization on the payment method for a trial.
Source: audible.com, verified 2026-10-12
Rules in force
- Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act (ROSCA) negative option requirements15 U.S.C. 8401-8405
A seller that charges consumers online through a negative option feature (for example an automatic renewal or a free trial that converts to paid) must clearly disclose all material terms before taking billing information, get the consumer's express informed consent before charging, and provide simple mechanisms to stop recurring charges. The FTC enforces ROSCA.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
3 citable points
- Policy
Before obtaining the consumer's billing information, the seller must provide text that "clearly and conspicuously discloses all material terms of the transaction".
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
The seller must provide "simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges" on the consumer's credit card, debit card, bank account or other financial account.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Process
A ROSCA violation is treated as a violation of an FTC rule on unfair or deceptive acts or practices, and the FTC enforces ROSCA with its FTC Act powers and penalties. Report violations to the FTC.
Source: law.cornell.edu, verified 2026-10-12
- Policy
Rules not in force (do not cite)
- FTC "Click-to-Cancel" amendments to the Negative Option Rule (2024) Vacated16 CFR part 425 (2024 amendments, published November 15, 2024)
Vacated in full by the Eighth Circuit on July 8, 2025 (Custom Communications, Inc. v. FTC, 142 F.4th 1060). The FTC removed the 2024 text effective February 12, 2026 and restored the pre-2024 prenotification rule. A new rulemaking is only at the ANPRM stage (March 13, 2026), with no proposed text as of 2026-10-12. What remains in force: ROSCA (rules/rosca-negative-option), Section 5 of the FTC Act, and state automatic renewal laws (for example rules/ca-automatic-renewal-law, rules/ny-automatic-renewal-law).
Not in force. Do not cite it as current law.
If that fails, escalate
Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.
Customer service
Written complaint
MailAudible, Inc. address (Conditions of Use) Audible, Inc., 1 Washington Park, Newark, NJ 07102Card or bank dispute
Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)
Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)
Card dispute for charges after a cancellation.
Federal regulator
State agency
Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON:
states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).
Watch out
- The Account Details page and the contact page need sign-in with the Amazon or Audible account.
- Unused credits are lost at cancellation.
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