wbjones
PowerDork
11/26/13 9:59 a.m.
I have to say the reboot of Road and Track has made a much better magazine out of it. Better than GRM? No, but it is now something I'll read and think about before donating/recycling.
ddavidv
PowerDork
11/27/13 5:35 a.m.
Not a magazine, but related to the original rant:
My iRacing subscription ran out last week. I never let it auto-renew. It's typically $99 for a year. Not even a week goes by and I get a "Black Friday Special" renewal offer, $49/year.
kb58
HalfDork
11/27/13 8:08 a.m.
Keith Tanner wrote:
...Sirius satellite has me trained. I get the 6 month $25 promotion, then cancel a couple ...
My last car came with free Sirius and the 6-month subscription just ran out. Too cheap to pay $12-18 a month, I was fine to do without... and then the calls started. Just yesterday the pushy salesperson said, "How about three months for free?" No thanks, "Okay, how about 6 months for [something like] $5 a month?"
All it accomplishes is pissing me off, first for the phone call, then the bating. All it does is to train me to think that the service actually costs them very little, and that they can go much lower (whether they actually can or not), I just have to keep on saying "No" until it gets down to $X a month. Was that their intension?
And of course, no sales call would be complete without, having just been told "NO!", the salesperson says, "Okay, I'll just update your account for the lower price right now, okay?" What part of "NO!" do they find confusing? They make it easy to be mad at them, or more accurately, to consider their product to be of little to no worth. Congratulations.
turboswede wrote:
I have to say the reboot of Road and Track has made a much better magazine out of it. Better than GRM? No, but it is now something I'll read and think about before donating/recycling.
Personally I think it now looks like Teen Beat with the goofy and useless info-graphics. I dropped my subscription, they badger me monthly with renewal notices.
turboswede wrote:
I have to say the reboot of Road and Track has made a much better magazine out of it. Better than GRM? No, but it is now something I'll read and think about before donating/recycling.
From what I'm reading, I think you and I are the only ones who like it, even though I said earlier I'm going to let it lapse. We'll see.
ddavidv wrote:
Not a magazine, but related to the original rant:
My iRacing subscription ran out last week. I never let it auto-renew. It's typically $99 for a year. Not even a week goes by and I get a "Black Friday Special" renewal offer, $49/year.
I got the same thing. I only had time to be on it three or four times this year, way to expensive for the amount of time I get to be on. I still love it, just doesn't fit with me right now.
kb58 wrote:
All it accomplishes is pissing me off, first for the phone call, then the bating. All it does is to train me to think that the service actually costs them very little, and that they can go much lower (whether they actually can or not), I just have to keep on saying "No" until it gets down to $X a month. Was that their intension?
I accused one of acting like a used car salesman once. Man, you should have heard the sputtering.
The new R&T is good. Some of it's not a complete hit, the little ADD one-pager diagram thingies don't work for me. I can see how a 20-second perusal at the newsstand would turn people off, and of course it's cool to diss anything online. But overall, I like the long-form articles that aren't just the same old comparisons and the quality of the writing is good. I was lucky enough to spend a few hours with Larry Webster discussing the reboot a few months before it went public, and I think he's on the right path. It'll keep evolving, and evolving for the better.
It's the only one of the four mainstream US car magazines I subscribe to, although I've started getting the RENEW NOW OR THE WORLD WILL END notices already. GRM and CM, obviously, those show up as well. I particularly like the latest CM
Hrmmm... what i learned from here is that i need to call SiriusXM and cancel.