The admins keep saying that notices are sent out as reminders before subscriptions expire.
When are they? It’s April 20 and I haven’t received one. In fact, I’ve never received one at any time in the past.
Do I have to play a game of chicken at midnight on April 29 to see if one arrives?
I have heard several people say that they don’t see renewal notices in their inbox. If this is due to the Chicago Reader not sending out renewals, or spam filters, or invalid e-mail addresses, I do not know. I would personally renew in advance (I’ve heard that you can do that without losing any of your subscription period), and if your “Charter Member” status is important to you, setting up a personal reminder.
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So who did you steal it from?
I received my notice of upcoming expiration on April 17th, FWIW. To my gmail account, subject “Paid Subscription Expiry Notice”. Gotta love a good use of the word expiry.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
It’s sitting in a folder on my desktop, originally it came to me through e-mail. Heaven knows who the original author is.
Well, I wish I’d seen this before I renewed. I want my Straight Dope to be straight dope!
I can see it now.
The invitation slipped under the hard drive and got lost and April 29th is going to come around and Exapno Mapcase, thinking he was slighted, is going to go off halfcocked and cast a virus on the SDMB causing the hamsters to fall into a mystic sleep for a hundred years until the kiss of a handsome IT geek restores our kingdom to its rightful status.
Hmmmph. If I went around wholly cocked, I’d put your eye out.
I may have to move this to IM(not-so-humble)O. 
So resubscribe already.
In the meantime, is your email address correct? Have you checked your spam filter lately?
I have to laugh; when we were talking about doing this Jerry said we might as well go ahead and send the notices out to everyone – not just those people who indicated it was okay to send them email, but everyone who had not resubscribed, regardless – on the grounds that someone would complain regardless of what we did. Jerry did NOT expect this, but I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be asked?
And it is the same email address and no spam filter is blocking the Dope.
::: clears throat :::
Dear Exapno Mapcase,
We beg you, we implore you
To buy another year’s worth of glorious subscription.
Does this help?
Aren’t subscriptions automatically renewed on your credit card? I could have sworn mine was, is it different for charter members?
No.
No, you have to voluntarily submit yourself to the zaniess that is the Straight Dope Message Board. Kind of like handing yourself over to a combined nut house and home for those who prefer sex with animals. :dubious:
Oh, it happened, it happened!
I received this in my inbox:
How sweet. How tender. How caring! It’s like a Hallmark card about a Norman Rockwell painting about a puppy licking a kitten in the middle of a lollypop storm!
They want me. They really want me.
sob
Of course I’ll come back. I’m yours. Photons and electrons.
{{{{huggy kisses, mods and admins}}}}
I feel so much better.
And strangely, in need of a shower.
Thank you.
I’m 99% sure I didn’t do anything to renew mine and it just showed up on my CC.
I’m promising you that you have to renew yourself, it’s not an automatic process.