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Default Cooks Illustrated scam

On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 13:58:44 -0800, "Cheri" > wrote:

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> wrote in message
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>> 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 had that happen with the Jerry Baker books. I finally told them if they
>send one more book, I will keep it and not pay them, they stopped.


TOO many people DON'T READ the 'fine print'.

Almost all trial subscription programs nowadays include auto-renewal.