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- From: jag@ampex.com (Rayaz Jagani)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: Consumers Digest 'you renewed now pay' trick?
- Message-ID: <C1H1HB.9wI@ampex.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:19:58 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.213453.4846@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> prm@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (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.
- >
- I had a "incident" with Chemical Engineering (McGraw Hill), a while
- back. They were blasting me with renewal notices, and one of them
- said that my subscription was "dead" (or something like that), a
- full two months before, and wished to know why I was not renewing.
- I expressed my irritation at their reminders... they took that as
- a renewal.
-
- I just refused (returned to the postman) all copies which I had
- not paid for. No further problems.
-
- > PS isn't it interesting how you do nothing at all and
- >become a Finalist in the AFP and PCH contests...
-
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- Rayaz Jagani jag@dst.ampex.com
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