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Inappropriate advertisement
Here is correspondence sent to Bicycling Magazine . I think the ad is
inappropriate for a cycling magazine. I am a new subscriber. I am 66 years old and a parent of 6 and grandparent of 33. I have 4 great grandchildren. I am not a prude, however there is a ad in your marketplace section by LIBERATOR to which I object. I share my magazines with my grandchildren and hope that they will be intrested in cycling. However, that ad has nothing to do with cycling and is extremely suggestive, also possibly suggesting that it is ordinary fare for cyclists. If you desire to keep publishing that ad or others like it, please refund my unused subscription amount and cancel my subscription. Otherwise, I enjoy your magazine and would enjoy continuing to recieve it. The choice is yours. Thank you very much for your consideration. Lloyd Payne Their response: Thank you for contacting Bicycling Magazine. Although you asked us to stop your subscription, our records indicate that your account is paid for future copies. Since most of our customers wish to receive any prepaid copies, we will continue service until your subscription expires. Should you prefer a refund, simply return this email instructing us. Thank you Bicycling Magazine ji My last response to them: Bicycling Magazine, ji As I satated in my original message, I do not wish to recieve any more of your magazines that contain advertisements for LIBERATOR. I asked you to indicate if you are going to continue those advertisements and instructed you to refund my subscription price if you are going to continue to carry them. They have NO PLACE in a cycling magazine. Please do as I instructed you. The choice is now up to you and I will do what I need to do next depending on your response. Very Sincerely Lloyd V. Payne |
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Inappropriate advertisement
"Lloyd Payne" writes:
Here is correspondence sent to Bicycling Magazine . I think the ad is inappropriate for a cycling magazine. snip Lloyd Payne Their response: snip My last response to them: snip Very Sincerely Lloyd V. Payne The only way to get an American company to stop sending you its rag is to tell it point blank to cancel your subscription with no caveats. Most magazines won't care what an individual thinks about an advertisement as long as large numbers of subscribers don't get mad enough to cancel their subscriptions, and in a country whose motto should be "scams R us" (truth in advertising), they will string you along as long as possible. I won't buy a magazine subscription from any U.S. company. I've heard too many horror stories about people begging for months to get the company to let them cancel (with a threat of damaging their credit ratings and heaven help them if the companies have their credit-card numbers and think they can automatically charge for a renewal). -- My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB |
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Inappropriate advertisement
Interestingly, I've been getting issues and issues of "Best Life" and "The New Yorker" despite each one allegedly being my very last issue! So perhaps it works both ways...or maybe my having gotten them free in the first place, as gift subscriptions for signing for salon.com "premium," is what did the trick.... And yes, I hate advertising, which is odd, considering that I'd thought I was going to do it for a career once, having read Olgivy's "Confessions of An Advertising Man".... Bill Z. wrote: The only way to get an American company to stop sending you its rag is to tell it point blank to cancel your subscription with no caveats. Most magazines won't care what an individual thinks about an advertisement as long as large numbers of subscribers don't get mad enough to cancel their subscriptions, and in a country whose motto should be "scams R us" (truth in advertising), they will string you along as long as possible. I won't buy a magazine subscription from any U.S. company. I've heard too many horror stories about people begging for months to get the company to let them cancel (with a threat of damaging their credit ratings and heaven help them if the companies have their credit-card numbers and think they can automatically charge for a renewal). -- My real name backwards: nemuaZ lliB |
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Inappropriate advertisement
Lloyd Payne wrote:
My last response to them: Bicycling Magazine, ji As I satated in my original message, I do not wish to recieve any more of your magazines that contain advertisements for LIBERATOR. I asked you to indicate if you are going to continue those advertisements and instructed you to refund my subscription price if you are going to continue to carry them. They have NO PLACE in a cycling magazine. Please do as I instructed you. The choice is now up to you and I will do what I need to do next depending on your response. A while back PC Magazine was bombarded by similar letters for ads which were clearly sexual and nothing to do with computers. PC Mag stopped the ads and now won't run similar. However, I noted that a while back Bicycling had an entire 'sex' issue so don't expect it to stop sex type ads. As far as saying if the ad will run again, the mag can't tell. It demands that the Liberator people place the ad. What is a Liberator? Is it a sex thing? |
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