March 6, 2008
What Happens When You Try to Cancel the Online Wall Street Journal (Part II)
I’ll make this post shorter than Part I. Called and spoke first with “Fermaine?” who transferred me to “John,” who transferred me to the blessed “Mrs. McClean? McKeene? Magee?” — a native Spanish speaker, I believe. Told Mrs. McClean that I’d like to cancel. She said that was fine and she would go ahead and kill the account.
I quickly had to remind Mrs. McClean that I’d stick around if they could give me another 60 days for free. I used corporate-sounding bull to express that: “Given my current time constraints and overhead demands (yes, I said this because I’m a smartass), would it be possible to get an extension to review in detail what the Online Journal has to offer me as a young executive?” She had no problemo with that. Total time spent: seven minutes one second. Let’s see what happens at the end of April!
March 6th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
im never trusting you again
March 6th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
pete: You never trusted me in the first place! :)
March 6th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Barron’s has been sending me all kinds of offers for a one yr. sub @ $99 in the mail for a long time now and I haven’t bit. Abelson’s comments in the past (I don’t know what he’s saying now or if he’s even still there) used to drive me crazy. He wrote such incredibly negative stuff. I do like some of the other articles, though.
Anyways, today I got an offer in the mail for $52 a yr. That’s a bit tempting so I might have to take that one. When I saw the price I immediately thought of CM (I’m serious) and thought that I might be able to parlay this sub into 2-3 yrs. :)
We’ll see.
March 6th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
CM: LOL…I really want to see how far you can go with it.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:00 am
overhead demand = tgif slush fund
March 7th, 2008 at 2:07 am
“Given my current time constraints and overhead demand….” That was great.
Did you plan your corporate sounding bull ahead of time or make it up on the spot?
March 7th, 2008 at 6:11 am
@Todd: Is it Barron’$ alone for $52 or both the Online W$J and Barron’$? If it’s both, then that’s a pretty good price.
@pete: I’m a big fan of the word “slush.”
@KC: I plan ahead because I’m not that quick. As my wife is fond of saying: The dumb bird flies first!
March 7th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Jeebus. I just re-upped for the WSJ print addition plus on-line (which I rarely use) for $99. About one weeks bar tips.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Cap: Where you been? And I notice you aren’t among the ranks of Box subscribers (monthly cost is exactly two drinks at the local hotel bar I frequent). :)
March 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am
CM
It’s for both services so I had to take it. It’s the lowest price I’ve ever been offered.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:54 am
Todd: Yes, that’s not a bad price and you know when it ends you can get at least 60 additional days as a freeriding junior executive.
March 8th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Been skiing and then catching up on business. I’ll give The Box a go after I get sorted out.