Seems like there is a potential business model for providing a service that will cancel a subscription on behalf of you
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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It's not about the time but about the way. You can sign up with a few clicks but to cancel you need to talk to human being.
Funny, when the rant is about issues with Google support then the critisism tends to focus around it being really hard to actually be able to talk to a human being.
Call me crazy but...
Maybe people that have an issue with google wants to fix this issue, and a machine is the wrong option for this.
Whereas to cancel a service there’s no reason ever for having to talk with a human?
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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100% true. And let's recall the Time article how the media in US conspired against Trump: https://www.worldtribune.com/time-magazine-all-but-confirms-...
It’s sad to see so many newly-created accounts that only argue about politics, from a particular point of view to counter what they see as HN’s incorrect groupthink. “There’s this forum, guys, where people don’t think the right way. Let’s brigade. Go there, create an account, and comment.” I wonder who it is referring people to HN for this purpose.
I agree, it seems like there has been a constant raiding party around here for the last few weeks. I'm glad someone else has noticed. Thanks for speaking up!
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Wow, had similar. I cancelled online, they said my account was in good standing, nothing owed, and killed my t-mobile.com account. A few months later I got a collections notice for $500 from t-mobile, went to a t-mobile store, said that my account looked weird, and they had recorded me as not owning my phone, despite a clear account history that I paid full price for the phone and didn't owe anything. Still get colle…
All these stories... is this an American-only thing and is common place? Because there’s no way that could happen here in Australia
It’s mostly American. We don’t have their kind of credit rating system in Australia.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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I said the phrase "I want to cancel cable but keep internet" 23 times to a Time Warner retention specialist then their supervisor, and I may have talked to her supervisor, too. They get paid to ignore you and read back canned responses like "but what about your favorite channels?", "what about watching sports?", etc. It was the first time my girlfriend had ever seen me angry.
times like this I imagine a cancellation service. Imagine paying $X to some Indian company that calls them and whenever they offer alternatives they just respond that they are not authorized to do that. Bonus if they have a think Indian accent that makes it somewhat hard to understand. The only disadvantage is that you would probably have to give that company your billing information for that to work.
We can also imagine that Indian company you contract to also has a contract with your ISP. So one person is arguing with their coworker over canceling a plan, but they don’t know it. Like when cops go undercover on stings and end up attempting to arrest another cop on a different sting. Yes, that happens sometimes.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Consider this another vote for the Financial Times and the Economist. I am subscribed to both, and Foreign Affairs.
You have to be aware of their biases, though. If I recall correctly both predict the collapse of France, like clockwork, every few years (especially because French policies are slightly more socialist and both publications are super business). And of course, both look down on non-Anglosphere countries, in general :-)
> both look down on non-Anglosphere countries
I don't know where you get that from. Any examples?
> You have to be aware of their biases, though.
A point of view is not a bias. The Economist was founded as a pro-market liberal (classically liberal) publication. A Marxist would consider that a bias I guess?
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Stepping outside this particular argument for a second, do you think it's possible to know the beliefs and motivations of "most people"? I don't. (Personally, I don't think very many people understand their own beliefs, much less that of others.)
I don't expect that I understand someone else's beliefs at a particular point in time. But I find it implausible that anyone changes their actual beliefs fast enough to keep up with these political fashions. So that's why I don't think most left-leaning people believe in these fashions.
Are you tracking the views of individuals, or is it possible that different people with different views are speaking at different times?
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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Couldn't this argument be made for the Border Patrol, or the war in Iraq? There are lots of things my tax dollars pay for that I find morally repugnant.
It's a matter of degree and alternatives. Borders and wars are clearly the domain of the federal government as described by the Constitution. If you don't like it, your only real option is to elect better people. Yeah, it sucks when our leaders invade Iraq for no reason, and then we elect one of few diseenting voices to be our next president and then he... invades Libya. So I realize my words are cold comfort, but th…
This sounds like a technicality argument - wars are in the Constitution, so whatcanyoudo?
If we should respect the views of tens of millions of people in one area, we should do it in another. If we think that life is sacred and we shouldn’t spend federal money to end it, let’s be consistent.
there are significant gaps in funding for these services, especially in underprivileged areas.
Would you support increasing WIC and other benefits for these children? Because if not, this policy decision would increase the number of people who grow up hungry.
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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FWIW, they won a Pulitzer for this investigative story about NYC taxi drivers: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medall...
Good try, but just grep for Trump and you'll find the connection. "Mr. Freidman, who was partners with Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, disclosed the plan in a 2012 speech at Yeshiva University. "
TBF, that single mention is just a tangential remark for characterisation; IMO that doesn't count as the article as a whole or in itself being "Trump-related."
It's more like, in any story where they want to point out that the subject is a sleazeball, they say he has "mob connections." That doesn't make it a story about the mafia.
(Yeah, that this was the example that came to mind does say something. More about Trump than about me, I think.)
Re: Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
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When you have to argue that you're "pretty sure" not everything about a person is bad then negative press coverage is not surprising. I am currently struggling to come up with something about Trump that's not mostly negative. Maybe his honesty in the Woodward calls? That's stretching it a bit, and only highlights how dishonest he's been in public. His response to Covid and natural disasters? So bad it better be incom…
For example, don't you think Trump acted well regarding getting vaccine quickly ?
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