Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!mithomas From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacWorld's Phony Offers Keywords: MacWorld Message-ID: <10558@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 11 Jan 90 06:51:32 GMT References: <2505@manta.cme.nbs.gov> <6321@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Reply-To: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) Distribution: na Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 40 I have to add a little more to the discussion. At the beginning of last year, the university purchased a bunch of Macs. They filled out the registration cards for all of them and sent them in to Apple. For some reason, someone put my name on about 20 of them. At the botton of these registration cards is a little box that if checked entitles you to two free issues of MacWorld. Well, they checked this box on all 100 cards. Luckily by the time these magazines started coming I had moved on to my current job, so I didn't have to bring up the mail these two months -- 100 MacWorld magazines is a little much to carry at one time. The people around to sort the mail didn't know why these were coming, but since 20 of them had my name on them, they forwarded them to me. Fine and dandy (even though I already had my own subscription -- it was fun giving the copies away). Then a couple of months later, I started getting all of these collection notices (to my old work address) which were forwarded on to me. I trashed all of them after several calls to MacWorld. Needless to say, I wasn't very pleased. I haven't heard anything else from them since (except for renewal offers on my real subscription) so I've been happy for a while. -Michael p.s. Rates up there with MacUser's offer that I received 1 month after I started my subscription to their magazine. If I renewed then for another year, they would give me an additional $1 off, since that is the amount of money that they would save by not repeatedly sending me renewal notices. I considered it, if only to prevent more junk mail... -- Michael Niehaus UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas Apple Student Rep ARPA: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu Ball State University AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)