Post Published on June 27, 2012.
Last Updated on March 30, 2016 by davemackey.
How to Cancel TransUnion (Updated: 10/4/15)
I recently received a helpful email from Carrie. She had spent thirty minutes looking for a way to cancel and wanted to share this method so others wouldn’t have to do the same.
- On the main page (tui.transunion.com) click on Customer Support.
- Click on General FAQs.
- Click on Payment (left and side).
- Click on How Do I Cancel My Membership (last FAQ).
The link below no longer works. They keep changing the relevant pages.
However the number has remained the same: 1-855-681-3196.
Read First (Updated: 4/8/15)
Several years on this remains one of my most popular posts – apparently there are a lot of people trying to cancel TransUnion. Unfortunately, the information in the original article is no longer current. TransUnion now redirects the contact page I linked to out to an order form.
I was able to track down the new contact us page. I’m also including the phone number on this page, in case they change the URL (again!). Hopefully the phone number itself won’t change: 1-855-681-3196.
The page says that they are open Monday through Thursday 8 am to midnight and on Friday through Sunday from 8 am to 8 pm.
I hope this is helpful!
Introduction
There are three big credit bureaus that track essentially everyone’s financial history and viability – TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax. They keep track of how much you owe and to whom, whether you’ve made your payments on time, where you live and where you have lived, and on and on the list goes. They provide this information at request to businesses who use it to determine whether they are going to sell or rent a product or service to you.
The Free Trial
Each of these bureaus tends to offer free trials – in this instance I signed up for a seven day free trial to TransUnion which included both a credit score and report (from TransUnion – the three bureaus don’t necessarily have matching information).
It was a good thing I did – they had Charity’s employment listed as mine and Charity’s employment listed as her former employment. I was also able to take care of a false delinquency charge on both Charity and I’s accounts.
Now I was done and the choice was to keep the service for $11.97/mo. or cancel it. Well, that was easy – I wanted to cancel it. Unfortunately, unlike most web services, it isn’t particularly easy to cancel your service. I scoured everywhere within my account and profile settings on the TransUnion website for a cancel option but all I could do was upgrade my services to more expensive plans – not cancel them. What?!?!
Finding a Phone Number
When everything else fails there is one solution remaining (okay two, one can also find a postal address) – find a phone number and talk to a real person (time consuming and I don’t like phones). I went to the TransUnion site and clicked on Contact Us. Okay, a whole bunch of options…which one to try? In the end I chose Consumer Resources – called the number and within three minutes was somehow placing (via their automated system) an order for another credit report and pressing 0 repeatedly only caused them to hang up on me rather than sending me to a real operator / support person. Usually 0 indicates the person needs help not “please end my phone call.” Thankfully, the order didn’t go through.
Google Helps
I ended up searching via Google for “how to cancel transunion free trial” which eventually led me to their terms of service page where there is a hyperlink (not hyperlinked) to another contact page (that I have no clue how to navigate to otherwise) here: https://tui.transunion.com/contact.jsp. On this page you’ll find a phone number you can call and cancel your service. The operator picked up quickly (I expect b/c no one is able to find the number) and fairly quickly and without too much argument canceled my service.
Dave Thinks
For what it is worth – I think it is great that we now get a free credit report annually from each of the bureaus, but I don’t think this goes far enough. These bureaus are trading information about us – sensitive and personal information – which is used to make life-altering decisions for us (can you buy that house, lease that car, qualify for that credit card) and it is unfair for them to charge us for the privilege of viewing and/or correcting our credit score/report at any time, any place, for any reason at no cost to us. In fact, I think someone could probably make an excellent class-action suit on this basis.
Hey, thanks for sharing this info!
I completely agree, I’ve been thinking this same thing for the longest time. This information, which is my info, should not be offered to me with a fee attached.
Yeah it saved me so much time. I really appreciate this info. You can’t even get to that number through their site, at least as far as I could find. I only got there through that link you gave me.
Since you mentioned this, and I was a little apprehensive about the loophole that might exist I looked into it. First I’d suggest that when you log on to the TransUnion site (or whatever the site is), look for the receipt for the report so you’ll have the order number. See they want a credit card number to charge automatically after the trial ends, anyhow there should be a receipt available once you accept the terms.
If you look at the “terms” in the little box, there’s this blurb about canceling … “To cancel your subscription please contact our Customer Service Team. For contact information and hours of service go to https://tui.transunion.com/contact.jsp” … I went to that site and there’s an 800 number for customer service with the following info:
Talk to a Customer Service Team member.*
Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to Midnight Eastern time
Friday through Sunday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time
Call toll-free
(800) 493-2392
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So, basically you should be able to call that number to cancel … and your card won’t be charged. I’m just suggesting that you dig up the transaction number on the receipt to make it totally seamless, I’m sure they can do it without that. Agree though, if you don’t parse through that little “terms of agreement” box (people rarely read that stuff, and that’s probably what they’re counting on) you’d be essentially stuck.
i knew these guys were going to make it tough to cancel and luckily enough in the 400 paragraph terms agreement i did find that web address however after typing the whole address into my address bar it still would not bring me to that page. i had to google it and finally found it on the 2nd page and that worked. crazy right??? how they know i found it? lol
I called Transunion at 855 681 3196 and was able to cancel in less than 5 minutes over the phone. I got an update on my phone the minute the agent advised me it was done. Since I started my free trial on 3/26/16, I allowed the seven day trial period to pass, so I was charged $19.95 once, which they made be aware of upfront. The agent further advised I still have full site usage until 4/26/16.
I have no problem with these types of deals as long as they hold up their end of the bargain. I only needed their info so I could straighten some things, so it was up to me to catch the seven day free trial period.
I just signed up and canceled my subscription without talking to anyone. The cancel link is not that buried:
Log in to your account
Click Help (Upper right near Logout)
Click Payments
At the bottom there is a link to cancel your membership.
Click to confirm and that’s it!
~B
Brian,
I’m glad to hear that! Maybe they have finally implemented a web-based mechanism for canceling one’s subscription. Thanks for sharing.
Dave
Thank you for the help. It was so easy.
That link no longer exists, even though the TU phone system says to cancel that way.
Now you still have to talk to a human and they attempt another sales pitch. Unfortunately for them, the tougher they make it to cancel, the less likely I am to re-join in the future.
I wanted to confirm that the online cancel membership works flawlessly with the above directions.
I opened a free account, and can canceled it the same day, Today, seven days later I got a bill for $18 and change.
I called so called customer service and was told I had only canceled my free trial, I had not canceled the accompanying monthly subscription, that it was a valid charge, and that they would not refund it.
I canceled on line and got a confirmation number.
Never again….
A quick thanks to Brian and Bob.
I signed up for my free trial membership yesterday and had a difficult time navigating the site.
Brian- your post made the site navigation go much more smoothly.
” Log into your account
Click Help (upper right near Logout)
Click Payments
At the bottom there is a link to cancel your membership.
Click to confirm”
Voila!
Bob- after reading your post I had no choice but to be cautiously optimistic that my subscription had indeed been fully terminated. so with a quick five minute follow up call the 1800 number (493-2392) I confirmed with the operator that my membership in its entirety had indeed been terminated.This took all of 5 minutes.
The link you provided was great! I do need to tell you that you could have gotten the link when you put your card info in. If you read the terms and conditions part and skip to the cancellation then they give you the link. I know it can be time consuming but it is always best to skim through the contract before paying for something.
Thank you for this information! I called the number you provided and an automated message told me how to cancel the free trial online. I clicked on the “Payment” tab as it suggested, but the link I was expecting at the bottom of the page wasn’t there. I spoke to an operator and painlessly had the account canceled. All he did was ask why I wanted to close the account; I said I opened it accidentally.
You can now click help at the top of the page, then payment, then you can choose to cancel your membership online.
Log in to your account and then go to this link: https://membership.tui.transunion.com/tucm/cancelMembership.page?
I’m mailing to cancel this service
What mailing address would you use to send a cancellation request?
As of today, when you call the updated number they walk you through how to cancel online. Here’s how: log in, click ‘support’ in upper right corner, go to ‘General FAQs’, click on ‘Payment,’ then ‘How can I cancel my membership’, and then they have a link to click for canceling.
Thanks EK for the update!
Yes, follow these directions and you won’t have to call, wait on hold and be pressured into keeping your subscription. It took me all of 10 seconds.
I called waited for 1/2 hour to talk ask for my information told me not in system so **** u
all
I lose 17.95 a month till IO get an answer how the hell I can get money back.
931-854-0602
You have the call me with a person. Please.I am on a very fixed income.
Sherry
All completely confusing!!!! And it shouldn’t be!!!
I thought I was only gonna be charged $1 dollar I was changed $17.95 I did aprove this,and I want my damn money back,my email is [email protected] it’s some bullshit,cause I didn’t even get the card.
I didn’t approve this $17.95. It said $1 dollar,it’s funny how big company’s fuck poor people out of their money.
If you made your account online, the new number to call for cancelling (bc of course it’s different if you signed up online vs over the phone smh) is 1-800-493-2392, then I think it’s the second option.
No wait once I found the right number, very fast-talking operator wanting to sell me on other things so I wouldn’t cancel, but let me do so once I managed to get a word in.
Please cancel my subscription and stop sending emails. Thank You
Hi George, I’m not sure what you are referring to? If you are referring to TransUnion, I am not associated with them in any way other than as a former customer.
This is a direct link to cancelling your free trial (However you must already be logged in for it to work): https://membership.tui.transunion.com/tucm/cancelMembership.page
Thanks!
That link still just directs you to the dead link further on
There is a way to do it online through a link:
1. Login to your account
2. Go to the bottom of the page and click on the FAQ link under the About Us section.
3. Click on the Payment tab.
4. Click on “How can I cancel my membership?”
Click on Continue as they keep asking you to call, and then you should see the screen that says you’ve cancelled your trial.
Thanks so much for sharing this info Oscar! Very helpful!
I was trying to just do a simple credit freeze and I was snookered on this site for my CC. TU they are so shifty for this crap. Thank you so much for this post
Glad to help!