>>> What I find amusing is that we long-ago canceled all of our
>>> subscriptions AND THEY KEEP SENDING THE MAGAZINE.
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>This probably has to do with how the magazine business works.
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>Basically, for audited publications (such as CoDe Magazine), the audit rules say that one can count a subscriber as a fully qualified, audited subscriber for 6 months after the expiration of the subscription (assuming they keep sending you a magazine). And if you paid the subscription for an entire year and then cancel 2 months into the subscription but do not get your money back, then the subscription will count for the entire subscription duration + 6 months after.
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>Neither FoxTalk nor Advisor are audited. Generally, unaudited magazines try to follow similar rules, but they stretch things a lot. So it isn't uncommon to count subscribers (and keep fulfilling) for a year after expiration and longer. And in the case of magazines that already have a shrinking circulation, they push it even further of course.
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>So that is probably part of what you are seeing here. Another part could be a bad database :-)

Yes, I'm sure that's part of it. And I suspect Foxtalk is playing even more fast and loose. We did get a refund on all subscriptions, but the magazine keeps coming.

When we canceled ALL of our subscriptions to ALL of their journals, they somehow created a new subscription to a journal we had no interest in, but that new subscription is probably being used to keep us a "current" customer.

That charge was refused to Amex. (Having a bookkeeper who is an alpha female who loves to say "NO" to men is a tremendous advantage some days. <g>)