[Vision2020] Thinking of Subscribing to a Local Newspaper? BEWAREof Telemarketing Gig

[lfalen]

Saundra
I sympathize with your problem. I am besieged with telemarketing  calls. I have not had much luck with the "Do not call List" either. I normally do not answer the phone during the day. If it is someone I want to talk to, they will leave a message. Now I am getting calls as late as 9:00 p.m.. 
On another note I have been working with the Nathan on filling the void left by the demise of The Latah Eagle. I suggested either a weekly or bi-weekly supplement to contain community happening. So far I have contributors  lined up from Potlatch, Princeton, Viola, Deary, Kendrick-Julaetta, Bovill and Genesee. I have a contact in Garfield that is trying to line up someone from Garfield and Palouse. I need to find some one from Troy and other areas. Nathan sounds interested, but is busy with other projects now. I am to get back to him in mid-April. If anyone has suggestion for contributors please let me know.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: "Saundra Lund" v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:24:59 -0800
To: "'Vision2020'" vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Thinking of Subscribing to a Local Newspaper? BEWAREof Telemarketing Gig

> Visionaries:
> 
> Please note that I'm cc'ing this to the pertinent folks at the Daily News,
> not that I expect a response (the Daily News certainly hasn't risen to
> challenge to provide quantitatively equal coverage to non-NSA & non-Logos
> area schools).
> 
> Close to four months ago, I decided to give the Daily News another try after
> reading some wonderful editorials folks posted here from the new editor.  I
> wanted to give it a fair shot but was unwilling to go back to an annual
> subscription, so I subscribed to the online version for three months.
> 
> I'm used to getting renewal notices when subscriptions are about to expire
> rather than taking personal responsibility <g> to put a reminder note on my
> calendar, which was apparently an error on my part.  My subscription ran out
> over the Thanksgiving holiday, which I didn't notice right away until I
> tried to log in a few days later.
> 
> Not a problem, I thought -- I just went through the renew process online,
> which seemed to go smoothly according to the messages throughout the
> process.
> 
> Except that my subscription didn't restart as it should have on the date the
> system gave.  No biggie, I thought -- I just sent an email to the Daily News
> on 12/3 & included screen shots that indicated the process was successful.
> 
> I've not received a response.  At least my bank account hasn't been debited!
> 
> If the saga ended there, I'd likely not be posting now.
> 
> However, since my subscription expired & my renewal apparently didn't take,
> I've been plagued by phone calls from a telemarketing outfit called West
> Park Direct (216-589-0214) that TPC Holdings (owner of the Lewiston Tribune
> & the Moscow-Pullman Daily News) contracts with.
> 
> When your subscription ends for any reason, TPC turns over your name & phone
> number to West Park Direct to try to get you to subscribe again, and then
> even God can't help you.  You can look forward to endless calls from West
> Park Direct until hell freezes over.  Less than a month after my
> subscription ended, I've given up trying to keep count of how many calls
> we've received.
> 
> And, I just loved this part:  even though we've been enrolled in the Do Not
> Call Registry since its inception, calls from West Park Direct are exempt
> because I was STUPID enough to do business with the Daily News, which thinks
> it's OK to give out my name & phone number to West Park Direct, so West Park
> Direct has free reign to call me for the next 18 MONTHS before I can file a
> complaint with the FCC to get them to STOP calling.
> 
> I cannot tell y'all how DISGUSTED I am.  We pay for phone service for OUR
> convenience, not so that we can be harassed by a NATIONAL telemarketer on
> behalf of a  LOCAL businesses we entrusted our personal information to.
> 
> IMO, the Daily News ought to be ashamed for giving over former customer
> information to telemarketers, and current subscribers should be aware that
> should you decide to stop subscribing, you, too, can look forward to
> telemarketing phone calls.
> 
> For those thinking of subscribing, BEWARE!  Pay in cash & refuse to give a
> name or phone number -- demand that your subscription be tied to your
> address only or else be prepared to be hounded from the depths of hell by
> telemarketing phone calls.
> 
> And please be sure to spread the word.  I've gone through everything I can
> find with a fine-toothed comb, and NO WHERE do I find any disclosure that
> TPC Holdings will turn over our personal information to a flippin'
> TELEMARKETER!
> 
> 
> Saundra Lund
> Moscow, ID
> 
> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> ~ Edmund Burke
> 
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