> wrote in message
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> In article >, says...
> > While I've always liked the Cooks Illustrated magazine, and even have
> > a few of their books, for the last two years I've had problems with
> > them sending (and billing for) unsolicited books, despite my
> > repeatedly telling them not to send anything.
> >
> > Anyone had luck with getting them to stop? Fighting with the credit
> > card companies and Cooks has gotten rather old.
> >
> Maybe atypical, based on the other posts, but I got them to stop sending
> unsolicited stuff with one phone call. When the person on the other end
> of the conversation said that I had somehow agreed to receive future
> volumes when I ordered a book by returning one of their postcards, I
> mentioned sending appropriate inquiries to the Postal Service, the BBB,
> the credit card company and I forget whom else. In any case, the
> unsolicited stuff stopped arriving.
>
> Bob
this happened to me a couple of years ago as well. i marked the package
"return to sender". mailman took it and never heard anything else. but i
must admit, ATK is one of my favorite cooking shows.
bd