Has anyone else had this happen?
I received a renewal notice from wood magazine. It offers two
years for the price of one. Sounds great, but sounds familiar.
So, I look up wood magazine on my quicken, and sure enough,
I paid the same amount 1 year ago, and in the memo I remarked
"2 years".
So, I write them a letter explaining that I still have a year left,
and
sent them the check number with amount and that they need to
check their records. A couple of weeks go by and sure enough,
another renewal. I won't be renewing. Anyone else???????
Lou

they all do that, they want to get your extra money to work off of for a
couple more years, I most of the mags are getting into problems, that is
why are getting cheaper on there renews.

"Lou" wrote in message
ups.com...
Has anyone else had this happen?
I received a renewal notice from wood magazine. It offers two
years for the price of one. Sounds great, but sounds familiar.
So, I look up wood magazine on my quicken, and sure enough,
I paid the same amount 1 year ago, and in the memo I remarked
"2 years".
So, I write them a letter explaining that I still have a year left,
and
sent them the check number with amount and that they need to
check their records. A couple of weeks go by and sure enough,
another renewal. I won't be renewing. Anyone else???????
Lou


Lot's of magazine companies to that. Computer World comes to mind. You do
not loose what you have paid for but get more time added on. And yeah I am
probably going to add 2 more years to my existing 18 months of Wood.

"Lou" wrote in message
ups.com...
Has anyone else had this happen?
I received a renewal notice from wood magazine. It offers two
years for the price of one. Sounds great, but sounds familiar.
So, I look up wood magazine on my quicken, and sure enough,
I paid the same amount 1 year ago, and in the memo I remarked
"2 years".
So, I write them a letter explaining that I still have a year left,
and
sent them the check number with amount and that they need to
check their records. A couple of weeks go by and sure enough,
another renewal. I won't be renewing. Anyone else???????
Lou


Most magazines try to get you to extend early on. I've gotten at least
three renewal notices from Reader's Digest and I'm good for 3 more years.
It gives them some security for selling advertising, their main income.

I got one with my last issue. "2-for-1 renewal request". The card
also says "EXP MAR10" so I've got 2.5 years to go before it actually
expires (March 2010). So, check that card and see when yours actually
expires.

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:56:00 -0700, Lou wrote:

Has anyone else had this happen?
I received a renewal notice from wood magazine. It offers two
years for the price of one. Sounds great, but sounds familiar.
So, I look up wood magazine on my quicken, and sure enough,
I paid the same amount 1 year ago, and in the memo I remarked
"2 years".
So, I write them a letter explaining that I still have a year left,
and
sent them the check number with amount and that they need to
check their records. A couple of weeks go by and sure enough,
another renewal. I won't be renewing. Anyone else???????
Lou

Yeah, they do that. Check your address label to see what they show as
your subscription expiration date. Also, if you can live without it
for a month or two, you can get much better prices as a "new"
subscriber than they ever offer for renewal prices ;-) I have gaps in
just about all of my magazine subscriptions.

Dave Hall

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:17:40 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:

Most magazines try to get you to extend early on. I've gotten at least
three renewal notices from Reader's Digest and I'm good for 3 more years.
It gives them some security for selling advertising, their main income.

Same here. My wife subscribed to one of her needlework magazines and
less than a month later, they wanted her to re-subscribe. It's pretty
common (and a bit silly, I just throw the subscriptions away until
toward the end, that's when they get desperate and start offering
better deals).

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:56:00 -0700, Lou wrote:

Has anyone else had this happen?
I received a renewal notice from wood magazine. It offers two
years for the price of one. Sounds great, but sounds familiar.
So, I look up wood magazine on my quicken, and sure enough,
I paid the same amount 1 year ago, and in the memo I remarked
"2 years".
So, I write them a letter explaining that I still have a year left,
and
sent them the check number with amount and that they need to
check their records. A couple of weeks go by and sure enough,
another renewal. I won't be renewing. Anyone else???????
Lou


Well, I wouldn't want the magazine "Wood" if it were free. For most
magazines, the billing and shipping are totally different departments,
disconnected by 8 weeks, often in distant locations.

Fri, Oct 5, 2007, 7:00pm (EDT+4) (Phisherman) doth
sayeth:
Well, I wouldn't want the magazine "Wood" if it were free. snip

Oh, it's free, I'd take about any magazine. At worst you just toss
it, at best you like it, or at least find something you like in it every
once in awhile. But always handy to rest paint brushes on, greasy parts
and tools, stuff like that. Might even find someone willing to swap
something you want for them.



JOAT
"I'm an Igor, thur. We don't athk quethtionth."
"Really? Why not?"
"I don't know, thur. I didn't athk."

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:00:44 +0000, Phisherman wrote:

Well, I wouldn't want the magazine "Wood" if it were free. For most
magazines, the billing and shipping are totally different departments,
disconnected by 8 weeks, often in distant locations.

Hmmmm. I may be letting myself in for the kind of ridicule given the
supporters of Craftsman tools, but I don't think it's THAT bad. If
nothing else, the ads keep me up on the latest whizbangs from various
companies.

But I do find the occasional interesting project or article. No, it's not
FWW, but then we've been talking about what's happening there :-).

And the price is on the low end of the WW mags.

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:00:44 GMT, Phisherman wrote:


Well, I wouldn't want the magazine "Wood" if it were free.

It's not THAT bad... G

---------------------------------------------
** http://www.bburke.com/woodworking.html **
---------------------------------------------