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  #21  
Old February 2nd 04, 01:41 AM
Abafon Goula
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 20:58:25 GMT, "JFee"
wrote:

I was upset about the same thing. Last year I joined for $24 and this year
they sent me renewal notice for $40!

So I crossed off the $40 on the renewal notice, wrote in $24 with a short
note that if they charged me the same rate I subscribed at, I would renew.

Sure enough, they sent me a bill for only $24, and I kept receiving the
magazine (though i hesitate to call it that.. more of a newsletter, I think)

That's funny! I decided to see if they improved a while back and
subscribed. True to form, they started sending me renewal notices
before I received my first issue. After the fourth notice, I told
them to cram it.


"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
nk.net...
I used to subscribe to IFR until I realized that they offered a much

better
rate to new subscribers than to existing ones. After realizing this, my
four year old decided to subscribe :-). Today he recieved a solicitation
from another aviation magazine. Obviously they sold his (and my) name and
address. I always check the little box indicating that I don't want my
information shared and I don't want to recieve any offers. I will never
subscribe to any Belvoire publication again.

Just had to vent after calling a credit card company and telling them not

to
send me any more ot their stupid balance tranfer checks. It was the third
time I called them. I am in the national opt out list for all

pre-approved
credit and I still get at least two "offers" a day. I guess that Congress
is so busy spending our hard earned money developing rainforests in Iowa

and
subsidized rail to Disneyland that they don't have time for legislation

that
ordinary people really care about.

Mike
MU-2




  #22  
Old February 2nd 04, 01:47 AM
Haywood Jablome
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message news:JVgTb.81

The difference between me and you is that I could not be bothered to

play
that game. So I let my subscription slide years ago. So now they get

nothing
and I am spared of the bull****.

In the "old days", companies used to "nickel and dime", you to death.

Today,
it's $50 and $100 you to death.

Not a month goes by I don't find someone trying to slip and extra $10,

$20,
$50...past us on a billing statement. Of course, the "error" is never in

MY
favor. :~(


I'm on a screw you diet.
The rules are simple:

1. If the price is fair, I will pay it. You do not waste my time with
negotiations.

2. If there is a problem with your product, I give you one chance to fix it.
If you cannot fix it satisfactorily and fast the first time, I will return
it for a refund.

3. If I have to wait more than 10 minutes maximum to talk to your tech
support on the phone then I will take my business elsewhere.

4. I do not stand and wait in any queue for more than 4 minutes. After which
time I leave the goods exactly where they are and walk out of the store
(losers on welfare have an excuse to wait in line)

5. If you have me between a rock and a hard place - tardy contractors are an
example - I will harrass you by telephone at your home and/or business at
least 4 times a day until you make good.

Try it. It works.


  #23  
Old February 2nd 04, 01:50 AM
Mike Rapoport
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
...

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...

I guess they need to distinguish what we care about from what we want!

Pork
spending is getting out of hand but I don't see any mechanism to contain

it.
Even the defense budget is about 25% pork according to one study I read

(I
think it was by the CBO or GAO).


In 1981-82 the Grace Commission found that 40% or more of government
spending was pork/waste.

But hey, this is a DEMOCRACY. The spending might not be what YOU want (you
probably have your own little pet project -- we all do), but it's what

your
NEIGHBOR wants.

"What we must remember is that, in a democracy, the whores are us." - P.J.
O'Rourke, _Parliament of Whores_.




I agree completely. Everybody wants lots of things if they don't have to
pay for them. The federal government should stick to national issues,
defense, foriegn relations, interstate commerce, national parks, some
research ect. The state governments should stick to state issues, state
highways, law enforcement and so on. Local projects should be funded
locally. If Anaheim needs a railway to Disneyland which is only going to
benefit Anaheim hotels, I don't see why someone in New York should pay for
it. All pork spending is a result of people wanting things they don't have
to pay for.

I don't have any pet projects that I expect someone else to pay for.

Mike
MU-2


  #24  
Old February 2nd 04, 01:56 AM
Mike Rapoport
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"JFee" wrote in message
news:RLdTb.206424$na.338827@attbi_s04...
I was upset about the same thing. Last year I joined for $24 and this

year
they sent me renewal notice for $40!

So I crossed off the $40 on the renewal notice, wrote in $24 with a short
note that if they charged me the same rate I subscribed at, I would

renew.

Sure enough, they sent me a bill for only $24, and I kept receiving the
magazine (though i hesitate to call it that.. more of a newsletter, I

think)

-Jonathan


Another of my pet peeves is when a business extends different prices to
different customers.

"Every man deserves a square deal" Theodore Roosevelt

Mike
MU-2


  #25  
Old February 2nd 04, 01:57 AM
Mike Rapoport
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Why?

Mike
MU-2


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:gydTb.203997$xy6.1049254@attbi_s02...
May I suggest that you let them know why you won't buy their
products again, if you haven't already?


Better leave out the part about the 4-year old subscribing, however...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"




  #26  
Old February 2nd 04, 02:01 AM
Tom Sixkiller
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"Abafon Goula" wrote in message
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On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:12:54 -0800, Jeff wrote:

Well the elections are comming up, if you think things are getting bad

now,
wait untill GW gets re-elected (if he does), then he has no reason to not

hold
back since he would be on his last term.


Let's kick his dumb ass out! Might be nice to have a president that
has at least half a brain and not a puppet.


And which one from the past 150 years or more, would fit that description?



  #27  
Old February 2nd 04, 02:07 AM
Tom Sixkiller
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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
...

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...

I guess they need to distinguish what we care about from what we want!

Pork
spending is getting out of hand but I don't see any mechanism to

contain
it.
Even the defense budget is about 25% pork according to one study I

read
(I
think it was by the CBO or GAO).


In 1981-82 the Grace Commission found that 40% or more of government
spending was pork/waste.

But hey, this is a DEMOCRACY. The spending might not be what YOU want

(you
probably have your own little pet project -- we all do), but it's what

your
NEIGHBOR wants.

"What we must remember is that, in a democracy, the whores are us." -

P.J.
O'Rourke, _Parliament of Whores_.




I agree completely. Everybody wants lots of things if they don't have to
pay for them. The federal government should stick to national issues,
defense, foriegn relations, interstate commerce, national parks, some
research ect.


See, even that last couple are outside the vail of the Constitution.
EVERYBODY and I mean EVERYBODY has some pet project the want the feds to
perform outside their assigned duties.

You want Parks and R&D. Someone else wants health care. Another wants cheap
gas.

That's where it goes haywire.


The state governments should stick to state issues, state
highways, law enforcement and so on. Local projects should be funded
locally. If Anaheim needs a railway to Disneyland which is only going to
benefit Anaheim hotels, I don't see why someone in New York should pay for
it.


Why should TAXPAYERS in ANY locale pay for a private companies
infrastructure?


All pork spending is a result of people wanting things they don't have
to pay for.

I don't have any pet projects that I expect someone else to pay for.



You mentioned two above.


  #28  
Old February 2nd 04, 02:09 AM
Tom Sixkiller
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"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...

Another of my pet peeves is when a business extends different prices to
different customers.


It's called volume discount.

"Every man deserves a square deal" Theodore Roosevelt


Speaking of government costs out of control, there's the guy who started
much of it (the American Empire).


  #29  
Old February 2nd 04, 02:15 AM
Mike Rapoport
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"Abafon Goula" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 10:12:54 -0800, Jeff wrote:

Well the elections are comming up, if you think things are getting bad

now,
wait untill GW gets re-elected (if he does), then he has no reason to not

hold
back since he would be on his last term.


Let's kick his dumb ass out! Might be nice to have a president that
has at least half a brain and not a puppet.


Unfortunately there will only be a few choices and Teddy Roosevelt is not
running this year. A major problem is that the candidates in the election
had to win the primaries. It is difficult to win the Democratic primary
without being a big government, tax and spend, bleeding heart. It is
difficult to win the Republican primary without being a big government,
borrow and spend, friend of big polluting business and the religious right.
Looks like, no matter who wins, we will have a big government with Santa
Claus at its head. Of course the real Santa Clause brought presents to
everybody and government Santa Clauses favor their constituencies.
Basically each generation is trying to steal from the next. The retired try
to steal from the working by demanding medical and retirement benefits
vastly greater than any taxes that they paid to fund them. The working in
turn try to steal from future generations by running a deficit in good times
and bad. The future generations have had nobody since TR to advance their
cause.

Mike
MU-2


  #30  
Old February 2nd 04, 02:21 AM
Mike Rapoport
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I would argue that national parks and medical R&D are National issues and as
such should be funded at the National level. An artifical rain forest in
Iowa is clearly not a National issue

Mike
MU-2


"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
news

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
...

"Mike Rapoport" wrote in message
ink.net...

I guess they need to distinguish what we care about from what we

want!
Pork
spending is getting out of hand but I don't see any mechanism to

contain
it.
Even the defense budget is about 25% pork according to one study I

read
(I
think it was by the CBO or GAO).


In 1981-82 the Grace Commission found that 40% or more of government
spending was pork/waste.

But hey, this is a DEMOCRACY. The spending might not be what YOU want

(you
probably have your own little pet project -- we all do), but it's what

your
NEIGHBOR wants.

"What we must remember is that, in a democracy, the whores are us." -

P.J.
O'Rourke, _Parliament of Whores_.




I agree completely. Everybody wants lots of things if they don't have

to
pay for them. The federal government should stick to national issues,
defense, foriegn relations, interstate commerce, national parks, some
research ect.


See, even that last couple are outside the vail of the Constitution.
EVERYBODY and I mean EVERYBODY has some pet project the want the feds to
perform outside their assigned duties.

You want Parks and R&D. Someone else wants health care. Another wants

cheap
gas.

That's where it goes haywire.


The state governments should stick to state issues, state
highways, law enforcement and so on. Local projects should be funded
locally. If Anaheim needs a railway to Disneyland which is only going

to
benefit Anaheim hotels, I don't see why someone in New York should pay

for
it.


Why should TAXPAYERS in ANY locale pay for a private companies
infrastructure?


All pork spending is a result of people wanting things they don't have
to pay for.

I don't have any pet projects that I expect someone else to pay for.



You mentioned two above.




 




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