On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 17:11:23 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> My wife also buys annual subscriptions for a couple magazines as gifts
> for some family members. We ended up cancelling a couple of them
> because of their marketing ploys. She would order and pay for a yearly
> subscription, and then 2-3 months later they would start sending her
> bills for renewal. I guess they figured that people don't keep track of
> when they buy an annual subscription and that they can suck you into a
> premature renewal.

That's what I hate about subscriptions - guess that's the real reason
why I stopped all of them. First it's just a couple of months ahead
so you can get your renewal in without interrupting your subscription,
then it's a couple of months ahead of when you sent in your already
timely renewal... it's ridiculous.

--

sf