April 30, 2008
What Happens When You Try to Cancel the Online Wall Street Journal (Part III)
I tried to pull the “busy young executive” schtick on a “customer relations representative” named Jody. She said I had already enjoyed two 60-day extensions and all she was able to offer now was $20 off the subscription price (recently raised to $119). I said I’d renew for $59. She couldn’t do it. I cancelled. Jody regretted losing me.
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April 30th, 2008 at 7:29 am
so dark the con of mao
April 30th, 2008 at 7:46 am
this thread was an amusing read… and so it is a very sad day now that a Part IV is unlikely…
i discontinued my online subscription (when it was time to renew) back when they decoupled Barron’s…
April 30th, 2008 at 8:01 am
@peter: Not dark enough apparently.
@v838: No Part IV, alas. So much for the freeriding phenomenon.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 am
There’s a hack for Firefox where if you use a plug-in called “refmark” you can trick the WSJ’s servers in thinking your request came from a “Digg” site. Free access to most everything on the WSJ site. . .
More at http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/03/21/wsj/
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
@jp: Thanks, I had delicious’d and skimmed that Salon article at the time but I’ll read it closer now that Jody lost me. I usually put the headlines I’m interested in (very rare) in Google News and get a free version 99% of the time, but if there’s a extension that cuts out that step then all the better.
May 4th, 2008 at 1:06 am
@jpmist
Vielen Dank! Thanks so much for the link! I had heard of ref-spoofing before, but in the case of digg etc. I would have thought they only scan and have access to the previews. I would nominate the Machinist guy for the international chinese copyist awards for making this trick available to the general public.