> wrote in message
...
> In response to a come-on, my wife took out a trial subscription to Cooks
> Illustrated. Now they sent her a "bill" saying that because she had signed
> up
> for their Six Months Automatic Renewal program, she should please get the
> money in.
>
> Did anyone ever run afoul of this? She never would have tried the
> magazine had she known she was signing up to subscribe in perpetuity.

Yes but not with that magazine though. It was back in the 70's. I sent
away for a free trial of some magazine and a bill arrived before I even got
the trial issue! When I called, they claimed that I was supposed to have
opted out after a certain number of days or some such thing but it made no
sense. How can you try something if you haven't even gotten it yet?

More recently I have been getting an ever increasing number of magazines
with the name of Lina on them and the last name of the woman who owned this
house prior. Her name is Angelina. She is also older than me. And many of
these magazines are not the type that an older woman would get. So that's
just weird. I got to the point where I just recycle the ones that I don't
want to read. I did manage to cancel a couple of them but it took me many
hours of phone calls to do so and it's just not worth it.