Outsmarting myself...

[susandennis]

In the olden days when you had a subscription to something like Time or People, about a year before your subscription ended you started to get calls and letters begging you to re-up.  Sometimes the longer you waited the price dropped.  Often the longer you waited, you could snag a cool re-up gift like a cheesey (thanks to my editor, howeird) clock or something.  It was a fun game.  Apparently it is over.

My People magazine subscription ran out!  I think I must have gotten one or two things in the mail but nothing urgent, nothing cheap and nothing with a free gift.  So I must have ignored me and those fuckers cut me off!

Wow.  It's a cold, cruel world.  I have paid up and they promise I can come back into the fold.  I hope they hurry.  No telling what juicy gossip I have missed. 

Comments

[artisanal_xara]

You should sign up for Rachel Ray's mag. When you try to let that thing expire they hound you to pieces to try to get you to re-up. I got it for my sis-in-law last year for Christmas, and they started in on me in August. I got something from them practically every month. They would have you believe that by the end THEY were paying YOU to subscribe.

[steve98052.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the best deals are the new-subscriber prices. I got an ad for the Wall Street Journal not too long ago for some crazy-cheap price, well below the $49 per year advertised on the web site. It takes me long enough to get through the local content of the P-I that I don't need to add a second national newspaper, particularly one that Rupert Murdoch is probably going to ruin before long. But I was impressed with the price, although not so impressed that I remembered the exact price.

[howeird]

People who need People...

So how badly do you need a cheese clock? As much as a leatherette toaster? Or monogrammed antimacassar?

I think the game started to be over when they stopped paying return postage on the subscription envelope.

[susandennis]

your people would be proud...

[rsc.livejournal.com]

You need to tell jwg your secret. Business Week keeps telling him that his subscription is about to expire, or has already expired, but they also keep sending him new issues.

[susandennis]

au contraire! I need to know his secret!!