NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/misc/consumer/22555

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From: [e-mail] (Joe Konstan)
Subject: Re: Consumers Digest 'you renewed now pay' trick?
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (paul.r.mount) writes:
|>     In 1992 I paid for a year's subscription to Consumers Digest
|> and the magazine has been arriving as scheduled.  (Expiration
|> June 93).
|>     Recently they have been sending notices saying "you've been
|> getting the magazine but why haven't you paid?"  I notice on
|> the card with the address and codes it says June94.  So I send them
|> cards back saying that I don't recall renewing for another year.
|>     It seems like renewal by intimidation.  Anyone else having
|> this problem w/CD or other magazines.

Not this problem, but I did enter their sweepstakes (carefully checking the
no box to indicate that I didn't want to subscribe) and whaddaya know, a bill
for a subscription.  Real Consumerly attitude.

|>     PS isn't it interesting how you do nothing at all and
|> become a Finalist in the AFP and PCH contests...

Except maybe return the form.  Has anyone ever been "dropped" from AFP or
PCH?

Joe Konstan
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