The udda day, I paid my bill for the Wall Street Journal. It was a huge waste of money, but my professor insisted I get it. He wasted my money.
Fine. (Waste of money!)
I paid my bill. I paid it on time. I get a nice email from them claiming I hadn’t paid my bill.
blinks (Wasted money.)
Look, I don’t know and I don’t care about what your crappy computers can or cannot do. I don’t really care that it takes you days to process an internet transaction. It isn’t my problem. What is my problem is that I wasted my money on your (actually very good) newspaper.
I have a magazine subscription that I’ve paid yet still receive “final” notices claiming I have not. They keep sending me the magazine, so I’m not too worried.
I get magazines that I’ve never subscribed to. Me, “Spin”? or “Working Mother”? (I am one, but that mag doesn’t bear any resemblance to my life). I got the NYT for a week, with eleano as the addressee before they realized their mistake.
I don’t understand magazine/newspaper subscription services. Good luck.
(and just FYI, WSJ is usually available for free at the public library. You have to read it there --or at least the current week’s worth, but it’s a better bargain all around).
Sir, every new subscriber is treated to the “Wall Street experience,” in which your money disappears randomly into a black hole… trust me, it’s being spent wisely by those who deserve it.
Moving this from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share.
Gfactor
Pit Moderator
I think SPIN has a mole in their mailroom.
When I moved in (6 years ago), for some reason I started receiving SPIN. I must have signed up for it somewhere, but I refuse to pay for magazines, so it must have been one of those ‘3 month free’ trials or something.
I have never received a bill.
I have never paid for it.
Six years later, I still get the magazine. I don’t even read half of them.
I’m not going to cancel it, though. The few I do read give me more insight about how modern music stinks.
I received 3 issues of Entertainment Weekly magazine a number of years ago, followed shortly thereafter by a notice advising that if I wanted to keep receiving it I’d have to pay the enclosed subscription fee. I figured the copies I’d received were teasers to get me interested, but since I didn’t have any interest in the magazine or its subject matter I didn’t pay the subscription fee.
I continued to receive the magazine, like clockwork, for the next two years or so before (I presume) someone wised up and took my name off their list.
It actually wasn’t too horrible, as magazines go, but I’d stopped even lightly perusing it at least a year before it stopped being delivered.