getting complimentary magazine  

Wow, that's great that you are able to get free magazines. But I don't understand why you get it actually. haha.

I think it's very generous of Reader's digest to do that under the circumstances. You should feel lucky and I understand how you did that...I did that once with makeup and recieved $87.00 worth of makeup products I was obliged to pay for....it's still in the bathroom unopened!

When we subscribe for a magazine it usually takes 6 weeks for them to get the first issue out to us so I am wondering if they really have your magazines ready. They may just be sending them anyway so that you might change your mind and actually order a years worth.

Yea online transactions will get ya. So many of them are processed instantly and then it just depends on the company's policies and procedures to determine whether or not you can cancel right away. I think some companies purposely make their policies so that you can't cancel immediately. It probably gets them more sales than if they did because some people will just let it go, rather than deal with the frustration of following specified procedures for cancellation.

I once signed up for some complementary informational thing and then discovered all the hidden fees and etc. I had to call and cancel, they had no way to request cancellation online.

that is not as bad as what happened to me with a subscription to Readers Digest supposedly in my name as the real person used my address and how she thought I spelled my name. I kept getting dunned for copies of a magazine I had not signed up for. seems this thief girl used to live in the apt. before us then moved to another apt but in the s ame complex. she would waylay the mail carrier evidently as Readers digest kept dunning me so finally I called up the representative of Readers digest staff. Hetold me I had signed up five months back. I said no I did not, I have not received one copy so why must I pay for something I did not order.Then I asked him how the name was spelled and he said Patsy Hatley, and I said someone is using my name to get a free magazine each month. I do not spell my night like that,my name is Patsie M. Hatley. and I did not order a subscription. I told him about how there was a young woman who used to live in our apartment but had moved to a different one in the same complex.The representative suggested I talk to the mail carrier. so I did and we found where she lived myson took the letters to her and told her to mail the money to the Readers digest or he would call the police and charge her with interupting our mail to get out a magazine.She must have paid as we never got any more statements from Readers Digest.lol lol lol.

It would seem like it would be easy to cancel a subscription right away, but it isn't because of "networking". The computer that generated the email about subscribing to R.D. works seperately from the main frame computer. When you click to subscribe, it is routed through the main computer to the computer that handles subscription billing. (It knows nothing but billing) From that computer it sends the information back to the main frame computer which in turn sends the information to another computer (or program) which generates the labels. Once that is done it returns the information back to the main frame computer which sends the information to the subscription computer to let it know that you will be receiving the next issue. Not one of the computers is set up to understand that you made a mistake and don't really want to subscribe, that you just pushed the wrong button.

At this point you end up either having to email the company or call their customer service which is usually in India, outer Slobvoia or Mars. They have the power to access the main frame and let it know that you made a mistake. It takes a little time for the computers to understand the concept of mistake so the magazine figures two things, first it is easier to let you keep the magazines than to try to put them back into their inventory, and secondly it is wonderful good will for when you can afford the subscription...you'll be very apt to subscribe to R.D. because they were so nice to you.

I had to call Fed Ex this morning because something I ordered had taken nearly two weeks to get here and I was wondering why. I didn't sleep well last night...first thing is when I crawled in bed (I have a cup of tea beside the bed for when I get those nasty tickle coughs) with my cup of tea, Murphy decided it would be great fun to dump the cup. I spent 20 minutes drying everything off. Then Willy and Khuay decided to have a fight on the bed. I kicked them off. Then Dinglebeary wanted me to love him. He stood on my chest (on the spots where the chest tubes had been...they're still very sore areas!) and butt his head against mine and bite the end of my nose. He got tossed off the bed. I finally got to sleep at 3:30 a.m. and had to be up early because I was driving a friend to an appointment 100 miles away. Anyhow, I called Fed Ex and didn't even think about what was coming out of my mouth, I blurted out "Oh my G-D! You speak English!". The gentleman on the other end had a great laugh at that statement. As I told him a lot of my customer service calls get routed to India and other regions where they are hard to understand. Just from that you can tell how the day went. When I get home I'll post the whole story. Anyhow, it was a computer problem that caused the delay in delivery. The package has more miles on it than my car. It went from Grants Pass Oregon to Washington state, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. It landed in California yesterday and they finally delivered the package today. Hoorah for computers!

Now the MyLot computer states that I can't use emotes because I am under the rank of 200...and I have been ten times that amount for how long???

from personal experience, a long time ago with Readers Digest, I can tell you 'don't feel bad' that you will recieve a few free issues. I love Readers Digest, but like you I could no longer afford the subscription so I didn't renew! They automatically renewed for me! When I called and complained they told me that they do this so I would not miss any issues. I told them there was a reason why I never sent in the renew form, I didn't want the magazine anymore! Although they told me they would cancel my subscription, they continued to come, I got turned into a collection agency and they called me and I told them what happened and they got it canceled for me. I told Readers Digest to remove me from their mailing list and I think it took 10 years before I finally stoped getting mail from them! HONEST!!!!!

That's a form letter, who knows what the reality is. You may or may not get some. Since it is quick, they may have printed some immediately. On the other hand, printers could be backlogged and canceled, too.

I get regular letters from Readers Digest asking me to enter their big "Give Away". Besides entering me in the contest for thousands of collars, they also want to send me a copy of their latest Condensed books, but only in the fine print does one learn that they are also signing up to receive more books at regular intervals at their regular price. Some of the letters want to sell me special books about, music, history, etc. The big come on is the give-away (lottery). If they have that much money to give away, why don't they lower the price of their magazine subscription. I'm considering letting my subscription expire because of the price.