Sandra:<div><br></div><div>I may be wrong. But, I believe that if you tell W.P. Direct to remove you from the list it is law that they have to.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Saundra Lund <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm">v2020@ssl1.fastmail.fm</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Visionaries:<br>
<br>
Please note that I'm cc'ing this to the pertinent folks at the Daily News,<br>
not that I expect a response (the Daily News certainly hasn't risen to<br>
challenge to provide quantitatively equal coverage to non-NSA & non-Logos<br>
area schools).<br>
<br>
Close to four months ago, I decided to give the Daily News another try after<br>
reading some wonderful editorials folks posted here from the new editor. I<br>
wanted to give it a fair shot but was unwilling to go back to an annual<br>
subscription, so I subscribed to the online version for three months.<br>
<br>
I'm used to getting renewal notices when subscriptions are about to expire<br>
rather than taking personal responsibility <g> to put a reminder note on my<br>
calendar, which was apparently an error on my part. My subscription ran out<br>
over the Thanksgiving holiday, which I didn't notice right away until I<br>
tried to log in a few days later.<br>
<br>
Not a problem, I thought -- I just went through the renew process online,<br>
which seemed to go smoothly according to the messages throughout the<br>
process.<br>
<br>
Except that my subscription didn't restart as it should have on the date the<br>
system gave. No biggie, I thought -- I just sent an email to the Daily News<br>
on 12/3 & included screen shots that indicated the process was successful.<br>
<br>
I've not received a response. At least my bank account hasn't been debited!<br>
<br>
If the saga ended there, I'd likely not be posting now.<br>
<br>
However, since my subscription expired & my renewal apparently didn't take,<br>
I've been plagued by phone calls from a telemarketing outfit called West<br>
Park Direct (216-589-0214) that TPC Holdings (owner of the Lewiston Tribune<br>
& the Moscow-Pullman Daily News) contracts with.<br>
<br>
When your subscription ends for any reason, TPC turns over your name & phone<br>
number to West Park Direct to try to get you to subscribe again, and then<br>
even God can't help you. You can look forward to endless calls from West<br>
Park Direct until hell freezes over. Less than a month after my<br>
subscription ended, I've given up trying to keep count of how many calls<br>
we've received.<br>
<br>
And, I just loved this part: even though we've been enrolled in the Do Not<br>
Call Registry since its inception, calls from West Park Direct are exempt<br>
because I was STUPID enough to do business with the Daily News, which thinks<br>
it's OK to give out my name & phone number to West Park Direct, so West Park<br>
Direct has free reign to call me for the next 18 MONTHS before I can file a<br>
complaint with the FCC to get them to STOP calling.<br>
<br>
I cannot tell y'all how DISGUSTED I am. We pay for phone service for OUR<br>
convenience, not so that we can be harassed by a NATIONAL telemarketer on<br>
behalf of a LOCAL businesses we entrusted our personal information to.<br>
<br>
IMO, the Daily News ought to be ashamed for giving over former customer<br>
information to telemarketers, and current subscribers should be aware that<br>
should you decide to stop subscribing, you, too, can look forward to<br>
telemarketing phone calls.<br>
<br>
For those thinking of subscribing, BEWARE! Pay in cash & refuse to give a<br>
name or phone number -- demand that your subscription be tied to your<br>
address only or else be prepared to be hounded from the depths of hell by<br>
telemarketing phone calls.<br>
<br>
And please be sure to spread the word. I've gone through everything I can<br>
find with a fine-toothed comb, and NO WHERE do I find any disclosure that<br>
TPC Holdings will turn over our personal information to a flippin'<br>
TELEMARKETER!<br>
<br>
<br>
Saundra Lund<br>
Moscow, ID<br>
<br>
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do<br>
nothing.<br>
~ Edmund Burke<br>
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