Regarding your payments... this is known as a continuing authority,
> and to stop them you must ask the payee, not your bank. A very dodgy
> area unless you have a good deal of confidence in the firm you're > paying. >
I think the OP said the card was due to expire - in which case if the company does not respond to the instruction to cease then they may not continue after the expiry date. There are ways they may try that might get them the money - but I would have thought you would have had cause to complain to the bank if that happened.