I wonder if you were to just use a burner credit card (e.g. one of those virtual ones you can generate over your existing credit card) and use that to sign up. Then send them an email saying that you are cancelling the subscription and cancelling the credit card the subscription is with as well. I wonder if this would allow you to not waste your time dealing with their ridiculous process. The only potential issue I could see would be someone sending you to collections because they record you as cancelled when your payments start to fail.
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
#672I learned years ago to cancel everything in writing, via post. It sounds anachronistic, but actually takes less time and stress. Companies don't mess with letter writers. There's a lot of legal precedent behind us.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#673Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Are they not in line with the APA styleguide? https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-... I know it's a recent trend but I thought the capitalization was applied to all ethnicities.
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Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#674Imagine 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…
I just tell them I’m unemployed and wosh nobody wants to offer me any services at all.
In the past I've responded "it's personal" when they ask why I'm cancelling. That seems to work.
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#675Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've never heard NPR or BBC talk about how they are "fighting fascism".
I meant those reddit forums....not the NYT or BBC.
Oh got it. Yeah I'm kinda skeptical of reddit as a dedicated news source, it has issues... even just skewing the context of articles with wonky titles and such.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#676For those of us on Firefox, I'd recommend in using "Bypass Paywalls Clean" plugin. It routes around all the obnoxious webtech that these companies put on their websites.
If these news agencies are relying on fraud in various ways to retain customers, then it's better that they never have their claws in you to begin with.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal...
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#677Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Stick to the business at hand: this is who I am, this is how you can look me up in your system, this is what I want to do. Feedback doesn't help, they're not going to take your advice, don't waste your time. For example: "Please tell us the reason for your call today?" Should be met with the answer, "Please cancel my subscription." "May I ask why you want to cancel?" "Please cancel my subscription." "Have you ev…
Ah, yes. Treat others as souless automatons option.
Their job is to stop you from achieving your goal. They're a person, but they're not your friend in this interaction. You don't need to be rude, but you also don't owe them anything beyond basic courtesy.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#678You've definitely never tried to cancel a subscription in Germany.
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#679Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can people in the UK not send outgoing letters by putting them in their mailbox and raising the little outgoing mail flag? Is that a uniquely American thing?
As a Canadian who has been in the US close to 10 years, this is the first I've heard of this! I had always assumed the flag was meant to be set by the letter carrier in some bygone era as a courtesy to let residents know they had mail. Thank you, kind internet stranger. To answer the question, this service doesn't exist in any other country I've lived in -- Canada or Japan, in my case.
> I had always assumed the flag was meant to be set by the letter carrier in some bygone era as a courtesy to let residents know they had mail.
Even as an American I used to think this, but because I grew up in a large city where all mail collection was from a mail box at the corner of the block. It wasn't until I moved to a sprawling suburb did I have my own mailbox at the end of the driveway and I got to use that little flag thing for the first time.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
#680Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Are they not in line with the APA styleguide? https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/bias-free-... I know it's a recent trend but I thought the capitalization was applied to all ethnicities.
Doesn't appear to exactly be in line with the APA guideline you posted, which suggests capitalizing "White". Though they recommend against using "Caucasian" and recommend using "White" instead.
To quote the link you posted:
>"Racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized. Therefore, use “Black” and “White” instead of “black” and “white” (do not use colors to refer to other human groups; doing so is considered pejorative)."
However, the NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/05/insider/capitalized-black...
>"The Times also looked at whether to capitalize white and brown in reference to race, but both will remain lowercase. Brown has generally been used to describe a wide range of cultures, Mr. Baquet and Mr. Corbett said in their memo to staff. As a result, its meaning can be unclear to readers; white doesn’t represent a shared culture and history in the way Black does, and also has long been capitalized by hate groups."
Edit. Side note. Maybe I should write to the NYT and tell them I'm a White African and they're not representing my cultural and historical identity!