YouTube Premium thread SEE OP

I'm trying to renew my membership but it won't allow me to pay, it keeps saying couldn't complete purchase, check that you have the correct country selected in your play account.

I set my play account to the Philippines as that's what plan i use and have a vpn .

I'm guessing my Irish payment method causes this problem and I cannot change the country either 😬

Any suggestions?

Ditto. This morning I received another email saying the cancellation will now occur in January.

It appears that the first shot across the bow by Youtube about being cut of by X date wasn't entirely accurate. I had to update my details by today with an Argentinian card. I added a second Revolut card, didn't help. They're telling me I will lose Premium on the 23rd Dec which is my billing date. I'm okay with that. Netflix just nuked all accounts and kept peoples money. At least Google are not doing that.

I see that the cheapest country next might be Romania which doesn't require a in country card. Here is the list of countries. If you find a list of countries from another google search you can go through them one by one, the first I found without an in country card was Romania in the list of prices in Ascending order which started with Argentina.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10239146?hl=en

Whereas Argentina and other cheaper Countries like Vietnam, Brazil, Phillipines, Ukraine say similar to below:

Let it lapse, get a free VPN to use. I personally use Tunnelbear which has an App so I can do it on my phone. You get some free data without paid premium for them. If the country you want is on it of course. Just try to sign up, maybe you'll have to find yourself an address in the country. Use an Address generator or I normally just use an Irish Embassy.

I'll do mine once I see the Premium drops off not in advance. Although small amounts of money to lose by signing up to a new country early, there is no benefit.

As a recent forced settler in Kazakhstan (previously a Ukrainian resident), I'm wondering if any fellow nomads have ever received TWO payment cancellation notices from YT on the same account?

Am I safe for now, or should I expect another proverbial knock on the door?

Mine expired yesterday. I didn't survive long today before trying to resubscribe. The ads were annoying enough but the video stopping when i closed the app drove me crazy.

I'm being asked to verify phone number, how do you get around that?

Not working for me, tried a few email addresses and I get a message saying "Your account cannot be created at this time" - Can i create the account anywhere or does it have to be on iphone?

edit: tried iCloud and also on iPad and getting same error. I wonder is it cross referencing name and dob or something

I finally was able to move to Poland with my family, thanks to all the commenters who provided insight. The main issue I had was that I created a family after signing up to Premium, it needs to happen the other way around. Also, Revolut doesn't work for me, but N26 does.

My Arg family sub was supposed to end today (and maybe it will yet) but it seems to be continuing.

Maybe it'll give us today and then, come midnight, BANG, ads are back….

Got the mail today saying my account will not auto renew on 10th Jan, My youtube family needs a bit of a shake up, can i disband current family and create a new one under different country with my youtube account still being the family owner without any issues?

The apple method looks a pain with the gift cards