Posted: 5/6/2015 3:18:36 PM EDT
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So apparently I'm one of the only few subscribers for my local rag of liberal left wing communist drivel.
A few years ago I had started a Wednesday and Sunday only paper, with digital access to an online paper everyday. When I started the subscription it was $1.10 per week, and I paid yearly. I got this years bill last month. *&^#@$. WTF!?! I checked online and "new" subscribers could get the same package for $1.30 a week. Since I'm not "new" the paper wanted to buttfuck me in the ass and charge me $3.25 a week for two papers. Local papers full of local California left wing drivel. Oh, and I also get ads. So I call and speak with Ishtar about the price difference. He basically tells me to fuck off and pay the $3.25 for two papers per week or I can op to pay for only the digital online access. But this saddened Ishtar, because I wouldn't get their precious ads. So I tell Ishtar to convert over my remaining subscription to the online digital access (last month). That should have paid thru the month of June. I also tell him to send me a new bill so I can pay for another year at my old rate. Nope, the goatfucker stopped my physical papers and then changed my account over to the digital access rate at their new "old" customer price of $1.75 a week. It used to be $.70. So now I get a "late payment" bill for the past month. I called and spoke with Mr. Ishtar Goatfucker and asked how my account is negative when it was supposed to go until June. He stuttered and stammered and demanded to know who I spoke with. Once he figured out it was him last month, he basically told me to fuck off again and then demanded payment over the phone. For a subscription that was paid up until next month until he fucked with it. No wonder newspapers are dying off. Fuck you Mr. Goatfucker and your paper. I'll get my news from Arfcom from now on. |
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 I work a newspaper and the number of subscribers are going upDo they charge existing customers triple that of "new" subscribers? Why the need to read a damn paper? Pick up a nice book in the fiction section (online or otherwise). You'll get the same thing. |
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I stopped reading the local rag years ago. The front page always has a headline and article about how real estate values are going up and then an article about some fucking illegals struggle in the school system due to racist English speakers. There isn't a "police calls" section anymore because all the calls are in the area of the fucking illegals. The paper doesn't want the people to know about the illegals sucking EMT and police money. |
| I hope that you get it straightened out OP. I know that the news I read online is getting worse for not being properly researched, grammatically incorrect, and outright spreading lies at times. It's like the news has scraped a lot of little blogs and is using them as "authoritative sources" for news when a lot of times, these blogs are just plain crap. Yahoo is getting really bad about it and I'm about done with them and their "news" |
Years ago I would just get Sundays for the adds and TV guide. They started putting the TV guide in Wens. paper so I cancelled. They called a few weeks later trying to get my business again. I told them they screwed the pooch, I found the TV guide online and I don't own a bird 
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I have always loved reading the paper every morning before work but I just can't rationalize the cost anymore. Here in San Diego there is only one paper and its now hundreds of dollars a year. I'm down to only the Sunday paper. Reading online just isn't the same as spread out over the kitchen table, even if it is 12 hour old news.
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I have always loved reading the paper every morning before work but I just can't rationalize the cost anymore. Here in San Diego there is only one paper and its now hundreds of dollars a year. I'm down to only the Sunday paper. Reading online just isn't the same as spread out over the kitchen table, even if it is 12 hour old news. Rick Yep. That's what I enjoyed doing. Reading the paper and ads over a few cups of coffee. What gets me is the rates for renewal are about triple of that of a "new" subscriber. It'll be cheaper for me to purchase the paper from the supermarket than have home delivery. And the print media wonders why they are fading away. 
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