[horsecents]

Just opened an offer from "Orbital Publishing Group" with a Notice of Renewal/New Order for Equus Magazine. They're offering to lock in a great rate of 85.90 for 2 years. My subscription to Equus doesn't expire until 2015 so I called Equus and asked what was going on. They confirmed my account and put the name on a watchlist.

[Curb Appeal]

I get renewal offers for already subscribed magazines. I think they send them out hoping you won't notice that you still have time left and will renew for another year every few months. I have actually declined to renew a couple because of this tactic. Fitness magazine, for example, sends me an "Urgent Notice" nearly every month even though my current subscription runs through 5/12.

[ReSomething]

That is exactly what is happening. You are being solicited to add to your existing subscription (without being told that) and this especially targets the elderly. I understand that one of the problems adult children may encounter with their parents is multiple magazine subscriptions which both cost money the senior cannot easily afford to spend and create a trash issue if the senior chooses to save the magazines.

From what I understand the subscriptions are farmed out to other companies which receive a comission for every subscription sold.

[Mtn trails]

I just received the same thing regarding a PH subscription I just renewed for 2 years. Wanted me to lock in a rate for another year or two. Promptly round filed it.

[DressageGeek "Ribbon Ho"]

I get the same. But NOT for $89.50!!!!

[walktrot]

Just opened an offer from "Orbital Publishing Group" with a Notice of Renewal/New Order for Equus Magazine. They're offering to lock in a great rate of 85.90 for 2 years. My subscription to Equus doesn't expire until 2015 so I called Equus and asked what was going on. They confirmed my account and put the name on a watchlist.

I got this same scam. It's not like those "sign up now for more months" ads that every magazine sends. It had some weird return address on the envelope. I kept looking at the price thinking it was some kind of joke. It didn't occur to me to call Equus. It wound up in the recycling bin anyway.

[Puddin Pie]

I got a similar one for Dressage Today in the mail today. I was getting so many renewals, that I finally go smart and started a magazine subscription file with my bills, so I have a record of the time frame and my check number and date. We managed to end up with about a 5 year term on Time Magazine because they kept billing me and for several cycles, we paid them.

[Calhoun]

I got a similar one for Dressage Today in the mail today.

I also received Dressage Today subscription notice this week. The whole system is irritating.

[merrygoround]

Yet after years of taking DT, and giving gift subsciptions, this year I got NO! notifications, and had to chase them down AND argue about the usual $$$ paid.

???????

PS I won on the $$$$$.