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> On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 1:38:50 PM UTC-8, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 1/9/2016 4:22 PM, wrote:
>> > 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.
>> >
>>
>> I've never seen a trial anything that did not involve sending a bill or
>> charging a CC later. If it is a free trial, there is the fine print.
>>
>> I hope she canceled in the allotted period or still can.
>>
>> Please, nothing is free. Anyone giving you something free is looking
>> for something in return.
>
> No, it wasn't a free trial, just a deep discount,
>
> She did not like the magazine well enough to subscribe. She gets
> one cooking magazine -- Saveur.
I like Cook's Illustrated but I don't like every issue. In fact, I rarely
buy it. The price of most magazines is so insane now that I buy very few.
I do actually get a lot that I so not pay for. Ed would object if I said
they were free. I get them through Mercury magazines. I am not sure how I
got hooked up with them. Perhaps through a survey site or something. All I
know is that I don't pay anything for them.