earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) (05/31/87)
This is for all the people who have posted complaints about MacUser's subscription department. When I first got my Mac, my wife and I figured, why not a magazine? So we sent in the card for a one-year subscription to MacUser. After a year, even the Dvorak columns started to get boring. I think what finally did it was the issue praising the SE and Mac II, even before the machines had beeen released. This is supposed to be an objective magazine, and here they were praising hardware that, as far as I could tell, they had probably not even seen. The whole tone of the issue reflected something more suitable for the Bruce Springsteen Fan Club Magazine than for a serious publication that is meant to impart information to adults. "The smell of Bruce's sweat in concert drives me wild." -->> "The SE is the best small computer ever built, anywhere, even though we actually haven't had that close a look at it." Anyway, when the one-year subscription ran out, I had had enough of these assualts on my intelligence, and I didn't renew. I figured that a subscription for one year was a contract for one year, and that if I didn't renew, then the company would just stop sending the magazine. Well, the damn things just keep on coming! Every month, we get the cute little envelope that says: "Stop, Do you really want to cancel MacUser?" (It's got a picture of an alert box that says this.) And then we get another copy of it. Next month, another cute little letter, and another copy of MacUser. When does it stop? It's been three or four months, and I really don't want this magazine, but the company just keeps sending it. I figure that, sooner or later, the subscription department will get the hint that this source of income has dried up, and will quit sending the magazine, or will they? -- ********************************************************************* *Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 * *********************************************************************
traffic@ut-ngp.UUCP (Wiley Sanders) (06/01/87)
Heck, I always responded to their no-obligation trial subscription offer.
I'd send in the post card, then they'd send three or four month's worth
of back issues (see previous posting about that..) then I'd cancel as
soon as the bill came and I'd continue to get the magazine for three or four
more months.
I was getting MacUser (and Macworld too) about 30% of the time. But then
I guess they caught on, because the offers have stopped coming! :-)
-w
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- take THAT, NSA line-eater!hirai@swatsun.UUCP (06/02/87)
In article <6374@dartvax.UUCP>, earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) writes: > Anyway, when the one-year subscription ran out, I had had enough of > these assualts on my intelligence, and I didn't renew. I figured that a > subscription for one year was a contract for one year, and that if I > didn't renew, then the company would just stop sending the magazine. > Well, the damn things just keep on coming! Every month, we get the cute Well, a friend of mine who cancelled his subscription still has MacUser sending him the magazine every month. He figures that he did the cancelling, so he won't be liable for the money MacUser loses when they send him the magazines every month. Any legal experts out there able to clarify this point? -A.G. Hirai -- Eiji ("A.G.") Hirai |:: : : : : : : : :: USMail: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA 19081 |:: : : :70mm: : : : :: phone: for the summer it's (215)544-5349 |:: : : : : : : : :: UUCP: {seismo, ihnp4}!bpa!swatsun!hirai ARPA: swatsun!hirai@bpa.bell-atl.com