LJ payments

Did I miss the memo about automatic Livejournal payments? Because I had no idea that my account status is set so I am to be billed automatically for my paid account every six months, until I quite randomly clicked on my account status while trying to find something else. Either I have been extremely vague about keeping up with site changes, or LJ is pulling a fast one. Yeah, I can turn automatic payments off, but the default setting seems to have them turned on. Which I think is a little bit sneaky.