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JoeJustJoe
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[*] posted on 11-19-2011 at 11:56 AM


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I will miss the UT. I depend on the Sunday paper to line my birdcages for the week.


Another thing one can't do with the online edition.
I do subscribe to it, however. I didn't mind paying 55 bucks per month [as opposed to 8 bucks for online] for the hard copy down here, but when they stopped bringing it down, coincidently at the same time that Mexico was blaming the US press for the fall in tourism, I got accustomed to reading it online.
They have recently resumed selling the paper on this side of the border but they lost me as a customer.


Papers are dinosaurs and eventually the print editions are going to go by the wayside. I guess the physical papers are still good when you go to the bathroom and want something to read. Some papers are so bad their only use would be to use as toilet paper.

Papers like the SDUT are losing subscribers, and will do almost anything to keep you as a paying subscriber in order to sell their advertisement space to their well paying clients.

So what I do, and others do when they get the monthly, or bi-monthly bill. Is not to pay the bill right away and wait for the telephone call, or you can call the paper yourself, and tell them you want to cancel the subscription.

They will of course ask you why you want to cancel, and if price is an issue, and even if it's not an issue. They will offer to take at least one-third off the subscription price. But still tell them no, and almost always they will come back and offer to take a full one half amount off the subscription price, and sometimes even more depending what paper your talking about.

I haven't payed full price for the physical papers in years, and I would cancel them if I didn't get a price break, because almost all my reading is done Online.
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[*] posted on 11-19-2011 at 12:38 PM


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I'm so upset I'm thinking for cancelling my San Diego Union-Tribune subscription!:mad:



[Edited on 11-18-2011 by JoeJustJoe]
You no longer support your La Jolla paperboy?
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