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Default Cooks Illustrated scam


"The New Other Guy" > wrote in message
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> 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.


Sure, but I didn't see *even if you cancel two or three times we will
continue to send books* in the fine print.

Cheri