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From: jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: CompuServe, Free Services, $1.50 charge
Message-ID: <998@starfish.Convergent.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 89 16:11:10 GMT
References: <96@aicchi.UUCP>
Organization: Convergent Technologies, San Jose, CA
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From article <96@aicchi.UUCP>, by joeloda@aicchi.UUCP (Joe Loda):
>     Anyone out there have any comments on the new $1.50 service charge
> imposed by CompuServe on their subscribers.  It seemed to me to be a
> fixed charge to cover all the "free" services they are now offering.
> 
> Joe Loda   Analysts International (AiC) - Chicago Branch
> Usenet:  ..!aicchi!joeloda
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I was considering joining CompuServe but the $1.50 charge really bugs me.
I guess I think of it as an $18 subscription to their (very poor)
magazine.  It is obviously expensive for them to keep mailing it to you
and to keep your name in their billing files.  However, $18 a year is
probably too much considering the high cost of connect time.

If Compuserve is listening, consider:
1.  Improving the magazine to be worth $18 a year, or
2.  Eliminating the $1.50 charge to customers who use two or more hours
of connect time each month.

Would I pay Macy's to keep my account open and mail me ads each month?
No way!



"	I don't want to imply I'm underpaid, but ...
	Last time I took my paycheck to the bank to be cashed, the teller
	asked me, 'How would you like that, sir, Heads, or Tails?'	"

Jerry		( jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM )
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