On 09/01/2016 3:11 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>
> My wife also buys annual subscriptions for a couple magazines as gifts
> for some family members. We ended up cancelling a couple of them
> because of their marketing ploys. She would order and pay for a yearly
> subscription, and then 2-3 months later they would start sending her
> bills for renewal. I guess they figured that people don't keep track of
> when they buy an annual subscription and that they can suck you into a
> premature renewal.

The same thing has happened to me but I ignored them. When the renewal
notices came one year, I had a dickens of a time trying to renew online
so I started *new* subscriptions instead - and they turned out to be
*cheaper!*
Ever since then, I've always cross-checked to see which is the better
deal. This last November, one magazine was significantly cheaper as a
new sub, the other wasn't.
Graham