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Beware; RENEWAL SCAM!!!
This is my very first negative review on Amazon -- or anywhere else, for that matter. Moreover, I've become a die-hard Amazon fan.
However, I feel compelled to warn others about what Vanity Fair is doing with these subscriptions. I had signed up for a one-year subscription at a great rate, which is usually the case with Amazon.
Now, nine months later, I just received a letter from Vanity Fair, informing me that my subscription is about to be automatically renewed for another year at $32.95 -- nearly twice the price of the original subscription. To avoid the charge, I then had to call the Company and work through their automated network until I got to the correct automated robo-voice.
We look forward to the magazine, and think it's great reading. However, they should be ashamed of practices like this. They should be getting subscribers by virtue of the value of the product -- not by underhanded automatic renewals at ridiculously inflated prices.
November 2012 · Magazine Subscriptions · verified purchase