My supplier advised me that the Autel scanners only advertise one year free updates, but at the time of the sale they had not yet developed a way to charge for online updates. So, at the time of the sale they were still do just doing free updates for all previous scanner sales. Now, they have developed their system and are charging after the one year expires.
Point is, the truth was available, your supplier choose not to share the truth with you.
Sorry, but as previously stated, you need to kick your supplier!
Thankfully, I have an honest supplier.