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- From: tvp@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Tad Perry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Byte magazine, con man?
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 02:21:46 GMT
- Organization: unaffiliated
- Lines: 38
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.021822.18974@gibdo.engr.washington.edu>
- References: <30033@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1993Jan22.155404.892@bnr.ca>
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- In article <1993Jan22.155404.892@bnr.ca> tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist) writes:
- >Robert Jr. (whitesto@oasys.dt.navy.mil) wrote:
- >: In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, cs161fho@sdcc10.ucsd.edu (cs161fho) writes:
- >: ]Recently discussion about Net vs. magazines remind me of my
- >: ]unpleasant experience with Byte magazine. I subscribed to it two
- >: ]years ago, but only received one issue. After I found out the check
- >: ]was cashed, I wrote them twice- never receive a reply. I think Byte
- >: ]was taking chance that small subscriber like me will never take
- >: ]legal action against them for the little subscription fee(to them at
- >: ]least). They were right; as a result, I have never purchased a
- >: ]single issue of Byte again.
- >:
- >:
- >: Twice in the past I have started subscriptions with Byte,
- >: and both times I was shortchanged three issues the first
- >: year.
- >:
- >: INTERNET: whitesto@oasys.dt.navy.mil
- >: --------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- >I had some problems with BYTE subscriptions, but after writing them,
- >the problems actually got cleared up. It took me awhile though.
- >Quite suprising for a published like MacGraw-Hill to not be able to
- >get its billing straight. How complex can it be? Paid... Unpaid...
-
- As my good friend commented when I was griping about similar problems
- in contrast to low-tech Sports Illustrated which always gets it right:
-
-
- "They probably have just enough computers over there at BYTE
- to screw it up."
-
- >FYI: I have a number for BYTE (don't know if it still works)
- > 609-426-5000
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