http://www.ebooksyearntobefree.com/2009/10/04/lay-off-the-hard-sell-wired/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.ebooksyearntobefree.com/2009/10/04/lay-off-the-hard-sell-wired/comment-page-1/#comment-184 jrenaut Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:11:12 +0000 http://www.ebooksyearntobefree.com/?p=339#comment-184 Yeah, they have the tiny designation on the card about the gift subscription, too. But it's the smallest print on the whole card, and it contradicts the entire rest of the card, which clearly implies that the subscription is running out. Yeah, they have the tiny designation on the card about the gift subscription, too. But it’s the smallest print on the whole card, and it contradicts the entire rest of the card, which clearly implies that the subscription is running out.

]]> http://www.ebooksyearntobefree.com/2009/10/04/lay-off-the-hard-sell-wired/comment-page-1/#comment-182 Jeannette Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:34:04 +0000 http://www.ebooksyearntobefree.com/?p=339#comment-182 Hey Jonr. Josh and I had a very similar experience with Wired. They are crazy on the hard sell. It's like they run out of money for printing or something. Regardless we built up a long run of future years' of subscriptions and then we finally called. And then when they told how many years we had paid for, we noticed that it matched a tiny month/year code designation on the mailing label on the magazine. That won't help as much for gift subscriptions, but for you own subscriptions, it will. We've found such codes on all our magazines. It's run by their ownership - Conde Nast or NYT or whichever mothership controls the money - usually the individual magazine is just the content. It's a dirty trick. Hey Jonr. Josh and I had a very similar experience with Wired. They are crazy on the hard sell. It’s like they run out of money for printing or something. Regardless we built up a long run of future years’ of subscriptions and then we finally called. And then when they told how many years we had paid for, we noticed that it matched a tiny month/year code designation on the mailing label on the magazine. That won’t help as much for gift subscriptions, but for you own subscriptions, it will. We’ve found such codes on all our magazines. It’s run by their ownership – Conde Nast or NYT or whichever mothership controls the money – usually the individual magazine is just the content. It’s a dirty trick.

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