On 2016-01-09 5:47 PM, sf wrote:
> 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.
>


My father in law belonged to some book of the month club and kept
sending books... and bills... for several months after he died. They
were notified, but kept sending them. They deluded themselves into
thinking they would get paid for the extra books they sent.