I have bought deutschland ticket in May 2025 subscribing for the month of June 2025. This ticket i meant to be valid from 01 Jun 2025 to 30 June 2025.
As I am a tourist and would not like to continue payment for July onwards I will need to cancel my subscription before 10 June 2025.
I an just a bit anxious about canceling the subscription now fearing this shoud not cancel my ticket bought for June 2025 as well. Hence I intend to cancel it only on 9 June when my trip ends.
However if someone can advise me properly, I would cancel it rightaway to avoid last moment issues.
Thanks.
Posted by
Lynnwood, Washington
9383 posts
I cancelled my subscription 5 minutes after I bought it on MVV. Worked just fine.
Posted by
Georgia
114 posts
Yes, we cancelled ours on May 3 and we are still here using it. Not a problem.
Posted by
Sacramento, California U.S.A.
11013 posts
Both times I got Deutschland tickets I cancelled them within an hour.
Posted by
W. Washington
48 posts
Are you traveling the same month you bought the ticket?
I think the question is if the ticket is bought ahead of the travel month and they cancel will it also cancel the month they bought it for?
I saw mention somewhere that they may be making some changes to Deutschland Ticket due to fraud and significant income loss. I got the feeling they were wanting to tighten/restrict the eligibility. I couldn't read the whole article due to paywall, though. Has anyone else seen anything about it?
Posted by
OP
7 posts
Thank you everyone for contributing. I cancelled my subscription today without any issues.
Posted by
Bavaria
2563 posts
I got the feeling they were wanting to tighten/restrict the eligibility.
No, that will not happen. Rather, the aim is to stop the two most common types of fraud: (1) Abuse of direct debiting. Fraudsters send out phishing emails claiming that the DT fee has been debited twice by mistake and asking for account details for a refund. Then they use this data to buy DTs at the expense of the account owner and sell them on cheaply. (2) Hacking of certification keys used by some smaller DT issuers. These tickets were sold as "special offers" or prorated tickets for weeks after the hacked key had been blocked (e.g. on a now defunct website d-ticket.su), so that the buyers did not have a valid ticket and had to pay a €60 fine.
Case (1) cannot apply to buyers from the US. For case (2), a simple rule applies: If you are offered a discounted or a prorated ticket, it is a fake, because the fare regulations in force since January 2025 set a uniform price and exclude prorating.
Posted by
W. Washington
48 posts
No, that will not happen. Rather, the aim is to stop the two most common types of fraud: (1) Abuse of direct debiting. (edited)
(2) Hacking of certification keys used by some smaller DT issuers.
This is very reassuring, thank you for the detailed explanation!