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I'm sure you've been there done that, some magazine publisher is offering a 50% discount off the newstand price if you subcribe right away. Well I'm not going to go on and on about that part of the game, but what about those times when the publisher sends you a sample issue out of the blue? And keeps sending them? Oh yeah they send the occasional bulk mailing offering that 50% discount or a free keepsake calendar for next year or the special swimsuit issue of their truckdrivers (oh wait that's 7-UP sorry). That is how I had a subscription of U.S. News and World Report for about a year until the "subscription" ran out. I think they got my name and address from when I had a subscription to Time magazine about six years ago. I never sent in a subscription card, you know the kind that fall out of your magazine a couple of dozen at a time, even issues that are 20 years old that you buy from a used book store. I never called their 1-800-subscribe number, never sent any payment to them and yet I was sent the magazine every week for about a year or so. Ditto with the Men's Magazine Esquire ("Man at his Best"). That is the "free" magazine I'm currently getting and have been getting for at least six months probably as long as a year. I don't know which address list they bought that I am on, but they won't let go, I think the subscription ran out last year but was renewed and now ends with the June 2003 issue, or so they say. Again I have never asked to subscribe to this magazine, never sent a payment for it and never got a card saying it was a gift subscription. So what is the deal? If you send a note to say cancel the subscription you'll probably get billed for a full years subscription or better yet start getting two subscriptions which will take a couple of months to straighten out. That hasn't happended to me for magazines yet but I seem to remember it happening with some sort of catalog or newsletter.

OK so I guess this episode did suck, and OH yeah for the free subscription Please try again or send for the official sweepstakes rules right away. Sweepstakes ends 31 DEC 1998.

By the way, this week's episode was inspired by the "free" subscription I have and the quote down below. For the record this correspondant prefers boxers cause they're more comfortable, unless your wearing an old pair that shrank.

Thank You and See Ya! Next Week,

Kirk

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