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In article <184872@pyramid.pyramid.com> jmuth@pyrps5.eng.pyramid.com (John Muth) writes:
>In article <117660001@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com> jws@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (John Stafford) writes:
>>Also beware of their "free" trial subscriptions; they use the same logic
>>with them.  You are expected to call them at or very near the end of the
>>"free" period and tell them that you don't want it automatically
>>converted to a paid subscription, otherwise it continues and you get the
>>bill (despite the fact that they will often say "we'll call you back and
>>see if you like the paper and want to continue receiving it", they have
>>never called back).
>
>I'll let you in on a little secret. If you blow off a magazine or newspaper
>subscription, nothing will happen. They will stop sending the magazine or
>newspaper and they will send you some letters asking you to pay, but it
>won't appear in a credit report and it won't go to a collection agency.

About a year ago I got a letter from a collection agency telling me
that they had made repeated attempts to contact me (untrue) regarding
a magazine subscription I had ordered (not!) and never paid for.
Interestingly, it was publisher's clearing house that had passed the
delinquent account to the collection agency.

The letter was sent to the parents of a friend of mine, and so wound
up in my hands eventually.  The fact that I had never lived with
my friend's parents, or used their address, was proof enough in my
mind that the whole thing was bogus.

The bill was something like $20, but I wrote a letter disputing the
whole thing, and never heard from them again.

--Neil

-- 
Neil Williams: neilw@informix.com

Seen on my last trip on United: "If you are seated in an exit row 
and can not (sic) read this card... please notify a crew member."