Just use paypal - you can cancel it from the paypal side without contacting NYT.
Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#593Imagine having a business model so fragile that your only line of defense is to obscure the cancellation process through these tactics. Do they really think that they can curve their churn this way? I mean best you’re doing is getting maybe another month or so of revenue from a customer who is just pushing the pain of cancelling because they are busy or lazy. And at the end instead of getting what could be a dormant…
Its brand is about all it has going for it. It's the IBM of journalism. We like to think it's still a leader, but we're kidding ourselves in doing so.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#594Earlier quoted context omitted.
NYT is quite right of center on many issues. They're not as conservative as WSJ, but they're definitely not a leftist publication.
They at least subscribe to the leftist version of identity politics, which has admittedly become very mainstream, but is still the number one rallying point of the left today.
Many people would consider the "leftist version of identity politics" to be an oxymoron.
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> they want to persuade me to hold a set of opinions Glad more people are realizing this. It's harder to spot/acknowledge for people on the left since the biased coverage feeds into their worldview...in my opinion it's artificially solidified their confidence on how "correct" they feel they are about political topics. The next step in this realization is nothing to do with one-sided reporting, it's the massive scale…
The pandemic made me realize how much newspapers have impact on people opinions. If they keep telling a vaccine in unsafe, a big part of their readers will believe the vaccine is unsafe. If they keep telling a vaccine is safe a big part of their readers will believe the vaccine is safe. And that no matter what the reality is. I'm not american but reading NYT during the elections, I was astonished by how much NYT was…
> I was astonished by how much NYT was blaming Trump for everything
The guy was calling the whole thing a hoax, I don't know what credit he should get for anything.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#596All of these comments seem to make it less defensible when people post NYT articles behind a paywall...maybe this kind of information will help people stop doing that here? It would sure make it a much more enjoyable experience.
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Cancelling a card and not paying a bill doesn't mean you no longer owe the underlying debt. A real company like the NYT will still pursue collecting the debt
What collection agency wants to collect a $4 bill?
It’ll be months worth of them, and there are plenty of cheap agencies that will make minimal effort, report to the credit bureaus, and wait for you to come to them begging to get it off because you can’t get a mortgage.
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BBC, NPR, /r/news, etc. There's tons of decent news sites.
Every single outlet you just listed is just as bad as the New York Times... /r/news is absolutely the worst cesspool shithole I've ever encountered on reddit, with the possible exception of /r/politics. It isn't just their rabid anti-conservative bias, which I'm more or less fine with as its pretty clear their possessed by their ideologies, but its their fascism of banning anyone who has a different opinion, while hi…
I've never heard NPR or BBC talk about how they are "fighting fascism".
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#599I just cancelled and it was relatively painless, to their credit. When they asked the reason, I said that political coverage was unfair. Left is OK, unfair is not. I don't consider myself "on the left" but I really don't mind a publication being left of center or right of center. If it's good, I will pay for it (I subscribed tp The Atlantic at least twice, and the New Yorker once, and probably others in a mix of prin…
I’m not rage-quitting yet but the decision to capitalize the word used to describe the skin color of one group of people, but not the words used to describe the skin colors of other people, is just so completely asinine and panderous that I have considered doing so.
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#600Yeah, I remember when I cancelled mine, it is about a year ago, but during the chat session, I had to be very stern in my wording, multiple times, before the person decided to do as I told.