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URGENT WARNING!
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 12, 2004 12:48 AM
You may be contacted by unauthorized companies asking you to renew your subscription. Two that we are aware of are Publishers Service Exchange and United Publishers Network. These Companies are NOT authorized to represent Kalmbach Publishing Co. and are NOT affiliated with us in any way.

DO NOT RENEW your subscription with any phone solicitor. Authentic renewals will only come from a PO Box in Milwaukee or Waukesha, WI. Most importantly, do not give them your credit card information or payment of any kind.

This is a note from Kalmbach Publishing Co.
UW02
P1783

Just wanted everyone to be on the same page.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:36 AM
With the way magazine companies constantly ask for payment long in advance of actual lapse, I'm not surprised that "pay now scams" have surfaced. Every week I have another magazine subscription notice telling me that "it's time to resubscribe now or suffer a subscription loss." What crap! Not only this company, almost all of them. These guys offer nothing to the consumer by taking payment early, there is no benifit to paying early and often. Ooops, yes there is, my money and yours in someone else's bank accounts...........
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:31 AM
I think it's called "generating cash flow"
QUOTE: Originally posted by Slick1

With the way magazine companies constantly ask for payment long in advance of actual lapse, I'm not surprised that "pay now scams" have surfaced. Every week I have another magazine subscription notice telling me that "it's time to resubscribe now or suffer a subscription loss." What crap! Not only this company, almost all of them. These guys offer nothing to the consumer by taking payment early, there is no benifit to paying early and often. Ooops, yes there is, my money and yours in someone else's bank accounts...........
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Posted by cacole on Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:05 PM
I get these notices in the mail all the time trying to get me to renew a subscription that is already paid up 5 years in advance -- I just throw them into the trash unopened now because I recognize the return address as a fraudulent company.
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Posted by Feather on Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:54 PM
I usually allow my subscriptions to lapse, then take advantage of whatever freebies they offer for new subscriptions.

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