How can I get rid of GQ

[lakewolf]

I have a GQ subscription,

I made it 3 years ago.

when the year ended I simply didn't pay the renewal, but it kept coming and I was charged automatically in my credit card account.., same the next year

well so I just carried on with it, it was ok.

last year in october I wrote them a letter to ask them to stop the subscription and don't charge me anymore. so I will not have GQ on 2007.

I expected it would be the end of it.


Today I received the february Issue...

what should I do now ?

I know I can contact my credit card manager and ask him to cancel the transaction, and he'll do it in a snap, but I think it is rude to do so..

somebody has had a similar experience ?

 

[vanity]

Call your credit card and tell them you've tried to cancel this twice. Charge back the amount since you have not authorized it.

It's not rude at all. You tried to say cancel, but it kept coming. So you're using an alternative method to stop subscription.

*this is fairly common practice with internet and cable providers. They simply won't let you quit. So your only course of action is to stop payment at your credit card company.

(in the United States, at least.)

 

[Britalian]

Not rude. send a cancellation by recorded mail. Check your T&C for cancellation conditions.

 

[Tumbleweed]

Yeah, it's not an unreasonable extrapolation to view unauthorised charges as theft. The fact that a product is still being provided is irrelevant as you've already expressed in writing, the most official means of communication, that you no longer wish it.

 

[watchingdetails2002]

Look at the mailing label. It should tell you when the expiration date is. Also if you write to them, enclose a copy of the label because it will show all sorts of codes to them. It could be you started your subscription at another time other than January. If I could see the label I might be able to help you out. I am a librarian by profession and serials is part of my job. Good luck

Robert

 

[hermes]

call the customer service number or go to their website and submit an email to customer service requesting a cancellation of your subscription

 

[Windsurf]

I would just call their subscription 800 number listed on the Mast head page or on their website and ask the CS to cancel your subscription and credit your credit card with the balance of your subscription. I find the phone syill works best in these issues.

 

[bobbyd]

But be forewarned, given the recent direction of that publication, cancelling could be considered a homophobic act.

 

[Jovan]

Nothing is homophobic about cancelling a magazine that's gone to ****.

 

[vanity]

When did it start to go downhill? I had not bought it for a while but a few months back, I picked up one up and it had an indepth article with Kevin Federline. I thought "wtf is this crap?"

 

[Lucky Strike]

Originally Posted by Jovan

Nothing is homophobic about cancelling a magazine that's gone to ****.
Can't remember who I'm stealing this from, but try starting the letter something like this: "I'm in the smallest room in the house, with your magazine. So far, the magazine is in front of me."

 

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by Jovan

Nothing is homophobic about cancelling a magazine that's gone to ****.

When was it ever good? Really, when?

Jon.

 

[ronmill]

I've noticed how GQ has declined over the years, to the point that I don't buy it anymore. However, i find that British GQ is a good read. Check your local B&N, they should have it on their shelves.

 

[sho'nuff]

I can apply an old Chinese fable here:

A gentleman had a subscription to GQ which he could not let go whatever he tried. He was so bothered by it he visited the local wise man for advice.

"I am so bothered by this subscription of GQ and I cannot get rid of it and it is driving me crazy. WHat should I do?"

So the wise man said, "Start a subscription of Esquire, Men's Vogue, Maxim, and Teen Beat for only one year. Come back to me after that."

So the gentleman, confused, went home and did exactly that. Started a one year subscription to Esquire, Men's Vogue, Maxim, and Teen Beat. Now during that year he continued to get the GQ along with all the other magazines, running him up the wall, he almost committed suicide due to the insanity. After the year was up, he went back to the wise man.

"Wise man, please!, I am going insane! I will kill myself, what do I do???"

The wiseman said, "Now go try to cancel the subscriptions to those magazines: Esquire, Men's Vogue, Maxim, and Teen Beat, and then come back to me."

So he went home and tried his damndest to cancel each of those subscriptions with his C.C. company. Finally after a 9 months battle, leaving him all scarred and bruised, he succeeded in cancelling Esquire, Men's Vogue, Maxim, and Teen Beat.

He went back to the wise man and said, "Thank you thank you wiseman!
My life is free! I am free as a bird with just a simple GQ subscription that never ends, but I am a new man, thank you!"

***
No moral, just wanted to write. yeah, non sequitur, sorry!

 

[freakseam]

indepth article with Kevin Federline

which suitably illustrates today's vocabulary word: oxymoronic