I'm Just about ready to toss in the towel.
I like to read magazines so I subscribe to a lot of woodworking as well as others. I get magazines on the new stands and if I like I subscribe.
Well thats my first problem. I send in my card and guess what? I get that same issue I purchased on the news stand as my first issue. You would think the card would be coded as to what issue it came from.
I sent in a card for Fine Woodworking. I get 3 back issues all in two days??? So I receive 1/3 of my subscription in two day and they are old issues. A quick call to them fixed the problem.
WOOD magazine I have been a subscriber since around 1986-87. I was going to let that one go but got an offer 3 years for the price of one. Sent in on-line but they only gave me 2 years. A call fixed that but now I get my magazine in my Mom name???? and now receive all kinds of cooking and the like magazines???? A call fixed that problem for now.
We move on to Popular Woodworking. I get my new issue today with a renewal notice. "Please extend my subscription before I miss a single issue" it says. "We haven't received your renewal instructions. And sooner than seems possible, Your Subscription will expire". I'm paid till sometime in 2010
I am not done by a long shot but this is getting long winded.
Am I the only one that feels this way.