Posted on 09/09/2008 1:03:05 PM PDT by Perdogg
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About Contact Archives RSS Columns Photos Michelle Malkin Lead StoryUs Weekly now offering “five FREE issues” to outraged readers By Michelle Malkin • September 9, 2008 12:51 PM
Just received from reader Jeff: The latest, desperate plea from Obama’s Palin-bashing backers at Us Weekly magazine to stop the bleeding. (You’ll recall that on Sep 5., I posted the first groveling missive from the rag’s customer service department urging readers to read the smear-filled article before canceling. Oops. Bad advice
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“I took all the copies and turned the magazine cover around...”
I shook out the subscription cards from all of them in the rack and stuck them in the mailbox. They can pay the postage due.
They make their money from the advertising. The subscription cost is just to the printing (if that).
How much they can charge advertisers is directly tied to their circulation rates. That’s where they are taking the big hit.
I actually started receiving both “Men’s Health” and “Esquire” even though I never subscribed to them, but there was my name on it plain as day. I eventually had to cancel both as they contained subject matter that I didn’t think was appropriate to have in my home. And it was HARD t ocancel them. I had to do it several times before they got they quit sending them.
So they are lying when they say the boycott of the magazine and advertisers is having no impact.
It is apparently having a HUGE impact.
“I shook out the subscription cards from all of them in the rack and stuck them in the mailbox. They can pay the postage due.”
They probably got enough bricks attached to those postage free subscription cards to built a nice house.
Fireplace starters .
The advertisers are feeling the heat!
Wwwwwwwwwaaaaaaahhhh
The advertisers are feeling the heat!
Wwwwwwwwwaaaaaaahhhh
I’m falling off my chair over that one. I know someone who does this.
Good trick!
I haven’t a clue why, but I’ve been getting this mag in the mail for about 10 weeks now. Don’t know how they got my name (didn’t fill out anything, anywhere including the internet)so I save them up and give them to my daughter-in-law who “loves” them. I’ll keep doing that until they figure out I’m not a subscriber, lol.
That’s like a restaurant offering you free dessert after you get food poisoning.
“But I don’t want a dogsh!t milkshake”
“what if we give you 5 for free?”
“But I don’t want a dogsh!t milkshake”
“what if we give you 5 for free?”
I’m laughing so hard I can barely type! I am definitely going to use that...somewhere...sometime!
That's not a bad idea. It then puts the store in a bad spot; makes them look like they're endorsing this cr@p and might motivate them to do something, too (like keep the mags in the back room and return them at the end of the week as unsold product).
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