how lame, sorry you hate our biased rag, why don't you read 5 more of them and see if you change your mind, LOL
Posted on 09/10/2008 6:55:11 PM PDT by edzo4
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.)
They are on their knees:
From: US Weekly USWcustserv@cdsfulfillment.com Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:17:57 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: cancel subscription (KMM23347217I103L0KM) To: xxx
Thank you for contacting US Weekly.
We are sorry you are upset over the Governor Palin cover. We do not want to lose you as a subscriber over one article in one issue. In an effort to keep you as a subscriber, we will add five FREE issues to your subscription. Please let us know if you would like us to extend your current subscription rather than canceling our publication.
Thank you, US Weekly Cari
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how lame, sorry you hate our biased rag, why don't you read 5 more of them and see if you change your mind, LOL
Right someone tries to unsubscribe and they offer five more deliveries or excrement in their mailbox?
Kind of like a restaurant saying, “We’re sorry your meal tastes like crap. Would you like another portion?”
I get 2 of those in my household each week... Been meaning to cancel both since last week, but didn’t get around to it... Tomorrow, I’m canceling both subscriptions
I’m sorry my rancid food made you sick. Why don’t you eat 5 more free rancid burgers?
It’s not the money from Subscriptions that they are moaning about, it is the Ad Rates that will take it in the shorts.
Less circulation, less ad revenue, the “free five issues” is just a ploy to keep their subscribers list pumped up.
No thanks.
I don’t know why anyone would subcrime to that trash in the first place. if you really want to read it, just ask the local store owner when he tosses the unsold ones in the trash. They generally don’t mind if you fish one out for yourself as long as you don’t mind it missing it’s cover.
Send their advertisers a few well-aimed emails or phone calls.
I have gotten the reply that all others are getting nationally, from the same type of email “automatic reply” box from McDonald’s, Coke, JCPenny, Target, etc. Each sponsor is using different words, but the total “ads” up to a little bit oif “discomfort” when JCPenny and Target both begin demanding reunds and free ad space in future issues.
But it is fun to continue to bug them.
News magazines are the biggest waste of paper in the world. They are always at least a week late. I never get to them unless I am at a doctor’s office, so they are more than a week late. You should never subscribe to any of the Time-Life magazines - Time, Duhscover, People, that just goes back to Time Warner. And they are crap and mostly frickin advertisements. Newsweek sucks, Us magazine sucks, I can’t think of a magazine that doesn’t suck in some way, except Reader’s Digest. Major waste of money. The only good reason to subscribe to a magazine is if it’s to cancel it later.
Exactly. Those are the numbers advertisers look at. Subscription fees are not important revenue, just your name justifying the number of copies they claim to print are.
If advertisers only knew how many “subscriptions” are actually returned to the post office because of unknown address changes, they’d freak out and sue the publisher for misrepresenting their readership numbers.
PS When I say cancel my subscription, I mean cancel my subscription.
WHAT PART OF “CANCEL” DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
(the above is the fictional example of what my letter would say IF I was a subscriber or even a reader!)
BatGuano
Sorry you didn’t like our crap. Here’s more.
One time, a news paper I was subscribing to called and asked me why I was canceling it... I told them... I don’t want this liberal rag anymore.... but, just like a very oppressive sales man, they kept trying, and then I hung the phone up on them.
Hilarious!
I heard RUSH comment on it this morning. I think someone called and reported his experience...
Easier said than dome. The post office doesn't keep a record of this stuff. sometimes undelivered magazines pile up for months, then they get employees that are injured to do "light duties" to periodically clean up the mess, which involves cutting off the delivery label and sending them back to the publisher as"moved" or unclaimed" (which the PO charges 10 cents per item for). Post office, and no doubt the publishers keep no records of these returned labels.
I worked there when I was a kid going to collage, that's how I know these things.
Flyer advertisers would like to know how inaccurate the post office delivery points of calls are for a zip area as well. Sometimes they are out by thousands due to redevelopment.
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