xerox@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (James Osborne) (01/12/90)
On a tangent (please no flame-throwers!), someone mentioned that educational discount "clearing houses" offer better discounts than magazines ever do. This is quite true. In fact, I dealt with one such place when orderinging several different titles. I began to receive all 4 subscruptions, but decided to cancel the most expensive one when I got the first bill (always looks less before you get the bill). I notified the clearing house, not the magazine, by just leaving a little note on the (partially paid) bill. The story ends that I got back a really nice letter from the house, saying that they had cancelled my subscription, but that I might still receive an issue or two. "PLEASE KEEP THESE ISSUES WITH OUR COMPLIMENTS." I was very impressed, and ended up getting 3 issues of the cancelled subscription without paying a dime for them. -- ---------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: Any opinions expressed are not those of my employer, even at such time they may be that of my employer. Nor are they my own. UUCP/Internet/ARPA/(anything) James.Osborne@mac.Dartmouth.edu