<>Like most of you, I've been receiving FoxTalk 2.0 renewal offers on a daily basis, which go straight into the garbage can. Today's renewal has a new twist:
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>"The great news is that we will automatically renew you unless you notify us otherwise!"
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>My subscription doesn't expire until April 2007, but they will "conveniently" renew it for me on 9/29/06 if I don't tell them otherwise. So, now I have to opt out of a magazine subscription? What a load. First, flood your customers with renewal "offers" to the point where they don't even look at them, then slip in an automatic renewal notice. I smell a lawsuit.
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>What a shame, this used to be my favorite magazine. Anyway, be sure to check those notices before you throw them away!


Disgusting.

Another new twist I got this week: I keep getting mailings at work and at home, albeit less often after my talk to them on the phone that I reported here in another thread. Since then they got a hold of one of the fax numbers in our offices. I have no clue how, as I certainly never gave them a fax number and certainly not that particular number. Why? Because it is not on my floor but on the Senior Executives floor!

Last week, the IT Director (the boss of my boss) comes to me and hands me a couple of faxes.: "Alex, these came to my desk; I don't know why." I thanked him not knowing what he was talking about and to my surprise it was a couple of "past due" invoices from FoxTalk. I shredded them.

Today (a week later), his secretary called me saying she has received three faxes for me, and if could come up and pick them up and please tell these people not to send faxes to that number! I went up - all embarrased - told her what's going on and told her I'll talk to them, but just in case, shred any fax for me on that number. Then I got to see the boss and apologized to him.

Now I have to get a hold of these criminals and get them to stop. Am I p*ssed? You bet!