mickeyd
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I have had a subscription to to Sports Illustrated for over 20 years. I generally have extended the subscription for a 3 year period. As my subscription was expiring, I decided that I was not really reading as much of it as I had before, in other words I did not feel that I was getting my money's worth any longer. I decided to let the magazine subscription expire and, as I know how to read their label, I knew that May 2008 was the end.
After receiving, and ignoring, about a dozen mailings from SI, I noticed that in June my weekly issues continued to arrive, even though they still had a May '08 date on the label. After 4-5 weeks my weekly issues of SI stopped arriving. I was now out of the loop.
Lo and behold, I started receiving SI again this week and I noticed that the mailing label now indicated that AUG 2009 was now my expiration date! No one asked, nor paid, for this extra free year of SI. No letter was received by me indicating why they are being so generous as to supply me with something that I do not want.
I'm sure that this has something to do with readership numbers and ad revenue, not the generosity of Time, Inc.
Has anyone else encountered this phenomena of free mags?
After receiving, and ignoring, about a dozen mailings from SI, I noticed that in June my weekly issues continued to arrive, even though they still had a May '08 date on the label. After 4-5 weeks my weekly issues of SI stopped arriving. I was now out of the loop.
Lo and behold, I started receiving SI again this week and I noticed that the mailing label now indicated that AUG 2009 was now my expiration date! No one asked, nor paid, for this extra free year of SI. No letter was received by me indicating why they are being so generous as to supply me with something that I do not want.
I'm sure that this has something to do with readership numbers and ad revenue, not the generosity of Time, Inc.
Has anyone else encountered this phenomena of free mags?