RENEWED READING
If you don’t feel like you get enough mail, might I suggest a subscription to Entertainment Weekly?
My nephew and niece were roped into selling magazine subscriptions in an effort to support the weekly supported school boards. Aren’t there child labour laws preventing this?
I digress. To support the children, I purchased a 26 Issue subscription to the world famous entertainment magazine.
After I received the first issue, I receive a renewal notice in the mail. Har har.. The letter included notice of my subscription and the offer to extend it at this time. After ONE issue.
I thought nothing of it, until I received my second renewal offer after the third issue I received. I still have 23 issues to go, and yet they want to get me to renew my subscription. Is the circulation department so inept that it would require more than twenty weeks to process a subscription renewal?
Again, the letter went in the trash (actually, it went into the paper shredder. I just bought one, and I’m in love with it. (More on that another day!)).
I don’t know if I laughed, or gasped, when after receiving the fifth installment of my 26 issues, I also received the above notice in my mail box.
I also don’t know what miffed me more. That this was the third notice I’d received in less than seven weeks, or that they waited until attempt number three to entice me with a mystery gift.
Needless to say, but I’m saying it anyway, I have not yet renewed. Not because they are begging like I did for a prom date most years, but because I can’t keep up.
Here it is, seven issues in and I still haven’t finished reading about Owen Gleiberman’s Oscar predictions. Looks like Martin Scorsese has a chance! About time, I say!
posted by JODSTER @ 11:11 AM
13 comments
13 Comments:
Its only taken me 7 attempts to post a comment.I bet if you hold out until the final issue they give you a years free subscription and throw in a car.
June
I've been rooked into buying those subscriptions. I didn't always get the mags, but I never said anything. I only hope the school got their money.
Wait PAST the final issue. They will try to entice you back with great offers and savings! At least my subscriptions to.
That's enough to make me cancel it altogether.
Subscription harrassment.
That's all I got with the last subscription I got to help the kiddies out. No magazines, just renewal notices.
Yeah, we get hit every year from a little cousin of mine and I always order.
What burns my butt is those catalogs that you've been getting for years that are trying to sell you stuff and one day, you get one that tells you that unless you order something TODAY, they're not going to send you anymore catalogs.
Like that would anger me or hurt my feelings???? Puh-leeeese!
:)
I don't get it, they get kids to make you agree to subscribe in an effort to make school funds and then you have an obligation to pay for a subscription?!?!?!?! That is really underhand. Really underhand.
oh and how did you get a bown Emu or an apple eating Koala?
bastards.
I, too, caught on to this sneaky technique employed by many magazines. So, like blue2go, I know the subscriptions up when it stops coming. And, yes, that's when the best offer comes.
Jodster, we have been very patient in waiting for your free subscription card to be completed properly. It has come to our attention that your blog is being actively linked by advertising ezines throughout the world without a license or proper authorization. We have no record of having issued a license to JPTH International or any other company, for this use. Our client previously advised you, via e-mail on April 1, 2004 (copy attached) that you are not authorized to do same.
Link: www.adbumb.com
DEMAND IS HEREBY MADE THAT YOU IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DESIST FROM DISPLAYING,
MARKETING OR DISTRIBUTING THESE BLOG POSTS WITH THE MENTION OF ADBUMb OR AD, OR ADVERTISEMENT AND HEREBY REMOVE ANY PHOTOS OF SAME.
If we do not hear from you by the close of business on Friday, April 1, 2005,we shall assume that an amicable resolution is not possible and shall proceed accordingly.
Here is the link to the subscription page, if we do not receive a proper email address for your subscrition we will remove you from our invite list and ban you from all ADBUMb VIP Parties for a period of 30 days.
Is it just me, or did no one else read the words ADBUMb in my blog?
Additionally, I could not have received a letter in this regard one year ago, since this wasn't even a twinkle in my minds eye a year ago.
Is it possible I'm getting SPAM in my comments now?
oh man you don't want to get uninvited from their parties. how could you withstand 30 days without party goodness?
hey, you think that's bad? SI for Kids kept sending me renewal notices saying something like "only $1.50 an issue" but the math on the offer worked out to be like $2.50 an issue. I kept complaining until they finally sent me a bill for $1.16 an issue. Interestingly, I have two subscriptions (one for each kid) and when they sent me a renewal notice for the second subscription it was for like $2.50 an issue. These guys absolutely price discriminate. Somebody should set up a website where everyone posts their subscription rates so we can all find the lowest rate and then demand the same rate for our own subscriptions. Information is power!
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