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From: capslock@wet.UUCP (Allen Crider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld's Phony Offers
Keywords: MacWorld
Message-ID: <915@wet.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 90 06:24:18 GMT
References: <21069@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <12989@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: capslock@wet.UUCP (Allen Crider)
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Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <12989@cbnews.ATT.COM> mlg@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mike Goodrich,45256,cb,1L334,6148602116) writes:
>>>"Sure, why not?"  What a mistake.  After receiving several harassing
>>>letters from MacWorld (to which we responded with queries abour our
>>>mosue pads and requests for cancellations), we've been put on the
>>>delinquency list of the North Shore collection agency.  After filling
>>>out an unsolicited bulk-mailed freebie card!  What a bunch of slimeballs.
>>
>
>I hate to say this but MacWorld is by no means the only magazine that uses
>these so called tactics.  I had this happen to me with a magazine called
>Publish.  


Publish! comes from the same group (and same building) as MacWorld. I
have one of their free offer cards right here:

"YES, I'd like to sample the next issue of Publish. I understand that(sic)
I'll also receive two gifts: "101 Best Desktop Publishing Tips" Volumes
1 and 2--FREE--just for trying Publish. If I like my free issue, I'll pay
just $21.97 for a total of 12 issues in all....etc.
If I don't choose to subscribe, I'll return your subscription bill marked
"cancel" and owe nothing. THE FREE ISSUE AND THE TWO FREE GIFTS ARE MINE
TO KEEP--FREE." 

Couldn't be plainer. The capital letters are theirs.