"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 17:11:23 -0500, 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.
>
> That's what I hate about subscriptions - guess that's the real reason
> why I stopped all of them. First it's just a couple of months ahead
> so you can get your renewal in without interrupting your subscription,
> then it's a couple of months ahead of when you sent in your already
> timely renewal... it's ridiculous.

What I hate about subscriptions is that I get my copy far after they are out
for sale in the store. I recently started getting OK magazine for Lina
(former home owner) and I got the same old issue two weeks in a row. Just
got another one yesterday. It was the one that was in the stores last week.

If I am not paying for the magazines, I won't complain. But if I am paying,
I want them on time!