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From: xerox@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (James Osborne)
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Subject: Magazine Subscriptions
Summary: Tangent
Keywords: MacWorld Tangent P-magazines
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Date: 11 Jan 90 19:46:44 GMT
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  On a tangent (please no flame-throwers!), someone mentioned that
educational discount "clearing houses" offer better discounts than magazines
ever do.  This is quite true.  In fact, I dealt with one such place when
orderinging several different titles.
   I began to receive all 4 subscruptions, but decided to cancel the most
expensive one when I got the first bill (always looks less before you get
the bill).  I notified the clearing house, not the magazine, by just leaving
a little note on the (partially paid) bill.

   The story ends that I got back a really nice letter from the house, saying
that they had cancelled my subscription, but that I might still receive an
issue or two.  "PLEASE KEEP THESE ISSUES WITH OUR COMPLIMENTS."
   I was very impressed, and ended up getting 3 issues of the cancelled
subscription without paying a dime for them.

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