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Re: Am I a Cheapskate, or are Newspaper Subscriptions Expensive?
« Reply #25 on: November 05, 2019, 07:38:13 AM »
Quote from: Ben on November 04, 2019, 07:34:00 PM
I actually realized that the price I quoted is based on a 13 week introductory offer, and I based my annual numbers off that, so a full year would be more. How much more I don't know. They just say "regular rates", but they claim the 13 week special is 75% off. Kinda like the cable companies.

I got a really cheap digital access to our local rag.  I figured that they would try to auto-renew on me after said year, so I used a privacy.com virtual Visa credit card to buy the deal.  Sure enough after the year they tried to auto renew the subscription on me at a much higher rate.  It didn't go so well for them as privacy.com kept rejecting the charges, so the local rag sent me some nasty grams and I called them up and told them to cancel my subscription and they didn't fight it at all.
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Re: Am I a Cheapskate, or are Newspaper Subscriptions Expensive?
« Reply #26 on: November 05, 2019, 07:49:24 AM »
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Re: Am I a Cheapskate, or are Newspaper Subscriptions Expensive?
« Reply #27 on: November 05, 2019, 08:16:44 AM »
My small town has a weekly paper. Usually runs 2 full sheets/8 pages and sometimes a half sheet for 10 pages. 75 cents from the paper box. I used to pick one up on Thursday nights on my way to work, mostly for the farm store sale flier insert.  When Oklahoma got open carry a few years ago the editor/owner ran an anti gun screed. It was mostly about how she didn't need to do business with people that carried guns and that they were not welcome in her business. I haven't bought a copy of her rag since. Her husband was a regular at the local gun store and I know he carried a Glock.
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Re: Am I a Cheapskate, or are Newspaper Subscriptions Expensive?
« Reply #28 on: November 06, 2019, 05:07:08 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on November 05, 2019, 08:16:44 AM
My small town has a weekly paper. Usually runs 2 full sheets/8 pages and sometimes a half sheet for 10 pages. 75 cents from the paper box. I used to pick one up on Thursday nights on my way to work, mostly for the farm store sale flier insert.  When Oklahoma got open carry a few years ago the editor/owner ran an anti gun screed. It was mostly about how she didn't need to do business with people that carried guns and that they were not welcome in her business. I haven't bought a copy of her rag since. Her husband was a regular at the local gun store and I know he carried a Glock.

She probably hasn't done business with him in years, either.
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Re: Am I a Cheapskate, or are Newspaper Subscriptions Expensive?
« Reply #29 on: November 07, 2019, 09:43:56 AM »
^ <snort> <gag on sipped coffee>... <laugh>

But seriously, another case of "guns for me but not for thee.  I'm (or my hubby is) special.  Everybody else is deplorable riff-raff."

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