Sunday, June 28, 2009
For years we’ve been receiving the Daily and the Sunday Seattle Times, but paying only for the Sunday paper. Each time our subscription comes to an end, I tell them I only want the Sunday paper and they give me the Daily for free ... to boost circulation and therefore ad revenue, according to the Times.
A few weeks ago, we went through our now-standard subscription renewal script but the Times refused to give me the Daily for free. So I subscribed to the Sunday-only Times and the Daily issues stopped arriving.
A few days later, I got a call from Times Circulation, “How would we like to receive the Daily for free?” Sold! So while my string is no longer unbroken, my seven year record of scoring the Daily for free is largely intact.
The Seattle Times, “blinked.”
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Good work. And this is probably one of the reasons why print is dying.
Brian on 07/01 at 10:11 AM -
Oh when the ads!
come marching in!
oh how I want to be in their numbers…
when the ads come marching in!Outdoorgrrl on 07/02 at 06:56 PM
