This is starting to annoy me.
Last week, and again today, I got a "Vogue" woman's fashion magazine delivered in my home mailbox.
It has my name and correct address on the front mailing label, but I did not ask for this magazine, nor do I want it to continue showing up in my mailbox.
I called the 800 number for Vogue, went through the annoying voice prompts, etc, and was told by madam robot that I had to call another 800 number for deleting/cancelling the subscription.
Calling THAT number, I get another recording "sorry, no one is available to assist you".
Geez!
I guess they don't work on Saturdays, I'll try on monday.
But why.... WHY would I be targeted for a woman's magazine subscription, I'm a guy, and I don't wear dresses or need makeup.
Last week, and again today, I got a "Vogue" woman's fashion magazine delivered in my home mailbox.
It has my name and correct address on the front mailing label, but I did not ask for this magazine, nor do I want it to continue showing up in my mailbox.
I called the 800 number for Vogue, went through the annoying voice prompts, etc, and was told by madam robot that I had to call another 800 number for deleting/cancelling the subscription.
Calling THAT number, I get another recording "sorry, no one is available to assist you".
Geez!
I guess they don't work on Saturdays, I'll try on monday.
But why.... WHY would I be targeted for a woman's magazine subscription, I'm a guy, and I don't wear dresses or need makeup.
Why do folks assume that any unwanted occurrence was specifically directed at them personally?
I have NEVER had anything to do with Victoria's Secret. Never bought a gift there, never replied to adverts. Yet I got on their mailing list. I got coupons for free panties, for god's sake. I have no idea where the connection was. My name was on a mailing list with thousands of others, and the VS marketing bought that LIST, not my single address.
Here I am a creepy old bearded guy. How can I walk into a VS store - we have one - and say I am there for my free panties without them calling the cops? And what would I do with them? Can't just give panties to some lady? Leave then as a tip on the counter at the diner?
MY wife does not take my name, but around the same time, she found herself just as unexplainably on the Harbor Freight mailing list.
Go on google and look for something, next thing you know adds for what you looked at appear in your banners.
Just your zip code gets you on some lists. Certain areas are more upscale. some areas you are unlikely a young single. Marketing may have risked a few issues on the idea you have a wife who might like to see those.
Conde Nast publishes Vogue. Also they issue Bon Appetit, The New Yorker, and a number of others. If you ever had any dealings with those, you would be on a list.
Curious, most mag labels have the subscription expiration date on the label, how long is yours planning to come?
I have NEVER had anything to do with Victoria's Secret. Never bought a gift there, never replied to adverts. Yet I got on their mailing list. I got coupons for free panties, for god's sake. I have no idea where the connection was. My name was on a mailing list with thousands of others, and the VS marketing bought that LIST, not my single address.
Here I am a creepy old bearded guy. How can I walk into a VS store - we have one - and say I am there for my free panties without them calling the cops? And what would I do with them? Can't just give panties to some lady? Leave then as a tip on the counter at the diner?
MY wife does not take my name, but around the same time, she found herself just as unexplainably on the Harbor Freight mailing list.
Go on google and look for something, next thing you know adds for what you looked at appear in your banners.
Just your zip code gets you on some lists. Certain areas are more upscale. some areas you are unlikely a young single. Marketing may have risked a few issues on the idea you have a wife who might like to see those.
Conde Nast publishes Vogue. Also they issue Bon Appetit, The New Yorker, and a number of others. If you ever had any dealings with those, you would be on a list.
Curious, most mag labels have the subscription expiration date on the label, how long is yours planning to come?
It says Feb24 on the label.
And no, I've never had any dealings with any of those that you mentioned.
And who's paying for this subscription?..... certainly not me!
This stuff creeps me out.
But get those free panties, ya might look sexy in them.
"By law, companies can't send unordered merchandise to you, then demand payment. That means you never have to pay for things you get but didn't order. You also don't have to return unordered merchandise. You're legally entitled to keep it as a free gift."
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/w...s-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products
https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/w...s-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products
that is the AI code the elites are developing to manage the population; it has not learnt yet (or it knows you better than yo do yourself? 🙂). I already experienced Delta airlines changing my payment for check in luggage just based on a conversation in my home while packing (and not even in English). We are under 24/7 surveillance and they are already piecemeal trying to manage our reality. Wait till the code downloads to the pharma plant an mrna sequence intended for your QR code. They will either make you want to put on those pants or learn something about turning your genes on/off or kill you in the process. Welcome to the 4th industrial revolution announced by the wef.
Yes...we're there, Back to the Future, aka: 1984. Actually we've been there for a good while now incognito. But oh, it's a good thing, no? Ask any millennial how convenient it is to have someone else do your thinking for you. Here's a few samples: after perusing a few crypto exchanges on my cell phone, that evening while watching TV, short 10sec commercials for them appeared for the first time. Never saw them again. This was about a year ago. Here's a wild one: while spewing expletives at a particular drug ad that uses an old rock n' roll tune, changing it's lyrics to their brand, all of a sudden a large yellow dot appeared obscuring the face of the person narrating. That shut me up forthwith! Hillary Clinton's face during a speech all of a sudden morphed into an evil cartoonish image for a fraction of a second. That made me chuckle. All in my head? Sure, okay.
Wake up folks
Wake up folks
I also noticed the fraction of a second images being flashed at me while changing pages on the web. that is an old technique where they try to influence your subconscious by providing an image which the conscious does not have time to take in and process but the eye still registers it. I wonder if they will manage to tune it so I can eventually fall victim to it too (and maybe order that Vogue magazine 🙂)
My method for losing unwanted subscriptions is to write a note to the expensive back page advertiser that mentions the circulation figures the add rate is based on are not accurate as I have no interest in the magazine and can’t get off the mailing list.
A copy to the publisher’s address should also go out.
That has worked for me.
A copy to the publisher’s address should also go out.
That has worked for me.
The reason I'm not bombarded with ads that then snowball into unrelenting ubiquity is that I simply absolutely NEVER click to 'allow' cookies. NEVER! I have my firewall set up to max and all I get is large blank spaces while surfing/reading articles. As soon as an article darkens demanding I accept, I just go to the back button and move on. After a while you get to know who they are and just avoid them. I love deleting them. There's so much information on the web that they're irrelevant. However I realize the inevitable. Until then...
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It's bad enough that while watching TV, maybe a good show is on, and....BAM!.... you get hit with every lousy commercial's dumb crap that you don't need or want.
Highly annoying, which you all know.
That's where the MUTE button comes in handy.
This current atmosphere of OVER-advertizing is enough to make a person nuts - and I suppose some do.
That's ok, because on Monday when I call to end this, they'll get a piece of my mind - and I won't have much left. 😊
Highly annoying, which you all know.
That's where the MUTE button comes in handy.
This current atmosphere of OVER-advertizing is enough to make a person nuts - and I suppose some do.
That's ok, because on Monday when I call to end this, they'll get a piece of my mind - and I won't have much left. 😊
Well, that other number that the Vogue customer service robot gave me I looked it up on google.
1-800-258-3350 is a "support center" named "Subco", who has M-F business hours and can cancel that damn subscription.
If anyone else needs it, there's the place to call.
"You may cancel your magazine subscription at any time by contacting us here or calling 1-800-258-3350. Please note, our business hours are Monday-Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm PST. If you purchased your magazine subscription, you will receive a pro-rated refund for the number of un-mailed copies. If your magazine was included at no cost with another qualifying purchase or was paid for by the redemption of RewardBee points or a bPerx gift code, please note that you will not receive a refund upon cancellation of your subscription."
1-800-258-3350 is a "support center" named "Subco", who has M-F business hours and can cancel that damn subscription.
If anyone else needs it, there's the place to call.
"You may cancel your magazine subscription at any time by contacting us here or calling 1-800-258-3350. Please note, our business hours are Monday-Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm PST. If you purchased your magazine subscription, you will receive a pro-rated refund for the number of un-mailed copies. If your magazine was included at no cost with another qualifying purchase or was paid for by the redemption of RewardBee points or a bPerx gift code, please note that you will not receive a refund upon cancellation of your subscription."
Ask them to make it over to your sister, a new entertainment for her?
I keep getting offers for American gun stores, and plastics exhibitions in the USA.
Just because I subscribe to a gun blog, and a plastics magazine.
Use a safer browser, Tor seems safe.
They spoof the location, no stored cookies, I think it even removes passwords.
It will tell everybody interested that you are in Europe, and the privacy laws there are different from those in the USA.
And of course American spammers will not send free magazines to Europe.
They need certified circulation figures to charge for the advertisements, the magazine can be given for free, it is the ads that pay expenses even in newspapers.
Like you can charge more, because you are senior in the trade.
I keep getting offers for American gun stores, and plastics exhibitions in the USA.
Just because I subscribe to a gun blog, and a plastics magazine.
Use a safer browser, Tor seems safe.
They spoof the location, no stored cookies, I think it even removes passwords.
It will tell everybody interested that you are in Europe, and the privacy laws there are different from those in the USA.
And of course American spammers will not send free magazines to Europe.
They need certified circulation figures to charge for the advertisements, the magazine can be given for free, it is the ads that pay expenses even in newspapers.
Like you can charge more, because you are senior in the trade.
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The one thing my sister doesn't need is another magazine.
She lives beyond her means, is addicted to buying too much from them, and puts herself in debt that way.
Plus, her rent went up a lot for that little shabby apartment she lives in.
I recall quite a few years ago now, I started getting a weekly news magazine. It was like Time, and reported on all kinds of stuff reasonably well. Nice and slick, it even resembled Time. Except the last page was the editorials, and they were these arch conservative views I couldn't believe. They sent it to me and thousands of other folks FREE for a year. Then they sent our "last" edition with a letter telling us we had been getting the mag for free the past year in hopes we would grow to consider it an important part of our day. And now to continue to receive it, we'd need to pay for it. To launch a national magazine in that manner was quite a speculation in my mind.
I had for the most part enjoyed reading it, but wasn't interested in buying it. I declined to pay up and that was that.
I wish I could recall the title now.
I had for the most part enjoyed reading it, but wasn't interested in buying it. I declined to pay up and that was that.
I wish I could recall the title now.
About a decade ago here in the Netherlands we had a telecom provider that would call people at random trying to sell a telephone subscription, preferably to elderly people who were hearing impaired or suffered from dementia. If someone stammered 'yes' at the wrong moment, they were subscribed. Under Dutch legislation, there was an eight-day period in which you could still cancel the subscription without costs, but they circumvented that by waiting nine days before sending the contract. After that, the only way to get rid of them was to send a registered letter to their address, an address that wasn't mentioned anywhere in the documents you received from them or on their website - they would only show a PO box number, but when you sent a letter to the PO box, they could pretend not to have received it.
With the subscription came a free subscription to a magazine with discount coupons, discount on things most of their customers would have no interest in. Unless you sent a registered letter to their address in time, the free subscription would automatically be changed into an exceedingly expensive subscription after one year.
All they did was legal, only just, until the law was changed to prevent practices like this.
With the subscription came a free subscription to a magazine with discount coupons, discount on things most of their customers would have no interest in. Unless you sent a registered letter to their address in time, the free subscription would automatically be changed into an exceedingly expensive subscription after one year.
All they did was legal, only just, until the law was changed to prevent practices like this.