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If I have a subscription and purchase another, what happens to the existing subscription?
If you are a subscriber and wish to extend your current subscription time, this is not a problem. Any time you have remaining when purchasing another will be added to the new one.
For example, if you have two months left on your current subscription when you purchase a further three months, then your subscription length will be extended to five months. You will not lose any time remaining.