On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 10:44:02 -0500, William > wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 13:22:03 -0800 (PST), 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.
>
> now, simply cancel the credit card they were given access to. That
> really ****es them off!
>
> William

Time to investigate Virtual Credit Cards.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-vi...redit-card.htm
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-ca...mbers-1273.php

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