20031008

Businesses are great. I have a subscription to a magazine, which is almost done now. But, since they want to get as much money out of m as possible, unless I do something about it they will automatically renew the subscription and charge it to my credit card -- a trick in common with CD buying clubs and pornographic websites, I'm told. One thing that makes me more than usually suspicious is that on the renewal notice (at least there is a notice), there is no mention of how much the renewal will cost. So I call up the customer service people, and they don't know either. They ask me if I want to renew anyway, and I point out that I would rather like to know how much it costs before I choose what to do. I think I will cancel my subscription if they are unable to tell me how much renewing a subscription costs.

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