Posted on 05/14/2022 10:39:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been upfront about his low opinion on the caliber of reporting at The New York Times, but Friday he presented new findings on the outlet that suggest they’ve moved beyond biased journalism, and he alleged the newspaper “is committing fraud.”
During the latest episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the host explained that a member of his production team had signed up for the Times’ monthly subscription nearly a year ago. When the monthly fee increased to $17 the decision was made to cancel the subscription and a representative for the Times told them in April the requested cancelation would go through.
In May, the bill came through again anyway, and after a second call to cancel the subscription, they were billed yet again for the month of May. “So, we called the Times to find out what’s going on. Within minutes, the customer service reps of The New York Times confessed that the company is committing fraud. That’s not an overstatement. It’s what happened.”
“The reason that it was not canceled,” the representative stated, “it was rejected in the system due to an in progress transaction attempt.”
She went on further and noted, “Now, it looks like again, someone tried to cancel it…They got the exact same system response. System was still trying to process the transaction.”
“Oh, so the system won’t let you cancel your Times subscription even if you don’t want it,” Carlson explained. “Our requests were rejected on two separate occasions a month apart. Now, according to the newspaper the system simply wouldn’t allow it either time.”
Naturally, the next recourse was to seek a refund for the bills after the request for cancelation had been submitted. However, that effort was stymied by “the system” as well, as the representative laid out:
“Now as for the refund of those two transactions you were trying to avoid, it does not look like that those were processed at all. So, I’m going to have to do that for you now, which shouldn’t be a problem. Right? ‘Billing event is being processed.’ Why is there another event being processed? That doesn’t make any sense.”
Extreme financialization seems to make it easy for fraud, in the service of both politics, and crime.
All liberals are frauds.
Sounds like AOL.
PC Load Letter? What the hell does that mean?
Half the graveyards are getting the NYT.
I’ll sell you that bridge to go along with your new Isuzu!
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The NYt is whistling (happily) past the grave yard...everybody gets a subscription.
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I’ve heard this happens with just about any auto pay plans you establish to pay any sort of bills. If you want to cancel, you will often get billed for a final month, then have to call, and get them to put a cancellation through.
I’ve heard many people tell such stories, not about the NY Times, but about other autopay headaches with other businesses.
I rarely have set up automatic subscriptions. But when I have, I avoided the problems by canceling the credit card being used, so that would prevent them from automatically billing me.
More than the NYT is screwed up
We subscribed to Wed/Sun copies of Wisconsin newspaper; offer was $4.65 a month
First two years we were billed $4.65 a quarter. Mistake caught and billing went to $4.65 a month until subscription came to an end then billing jumped to $22.00 a month. Cancelled.
This is an old scam that telemarking companies have used for ages. They say “cancel at any time”. You call to cancel. They say “Ok, we’re sorry to see you go. It will process in about 4-6 weeks”. So they ding you for 1-2 more cycles. You call back they come up with another excuse and charge your card again. Then you call again and they say “I see you attempted to cancel, so I can’t cancel it again. I need to refer you to the supervisor’s office” where they stall you some more again and again.
Now many years ago my grandmother got me a subscription to The Economist. I liked reading it. After the year ran out they sent me a renewal form but I never re-subscribed. They kept sending it anyway. I asked grandma if she paid to renew she said no. I figured, they needed to keep the subscriber rate up to justify higher ad prices and it was cheaper to send me the magazine free than to lose the revenue from advertisers seeing dropping sub numbers.
There is an incentive for the Times to do this. Newspaper ad rates are based on the number of subscribers, both the print edition and the online site.
If I recall correctly, there is an audit bureau which reports subscriber numbers. The higher the number, the higher the ad revenue the Times, or any news outlet. They are seeking to delay the effective date of cancellations, so that their official subscriber count is as high as possible, for as long as possible.
Yes, that’s exactly what happened. Even if they were sending you the free magazine, that still counts in their subscriber total, and in turn gets them higher advertising rates.
Like the Hotel California...
“You can check-out any time you like
But you can never leave!”
The money from subscribers is just a bonus to them.
The people at the top are paid by Democrat operatives who receive their money from nations hostile to the US.
As long as the top people at the Times keep working to destroy the US, they will get paid by the nations hostile to the US.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta…
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