win a ball from Bowling.com
« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?  (Read 15852 times)

DanH78

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3913
No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« on: December 29, 2004, 04:58:50 AM »
I received a copy Travel America in the mail yesterday, a magazine I've never heard of, let alone subscribed to.  I open it up to find a flyer stating that I would no longer be receiving Bowling Digest due to "Economic Reasons..." but that the distributor was going to substitute this travel magazine in it's place.  I don't want a travel magazine.

Does anyone know what's going on?

And they didn't supply  a phone number so I could cancel and get my money back.  Does anyone have one?  I just renewed about 2 months ago through 2007.

And please don't post saying that BTM or BJI or whatever magazine is better anyways, I'm just concerned with getting my money back from the bowling magazine I subscribed for.
--------------------
The clock on the wall says 3 O'Clock...last call...for Alcohol!
"I love a martini -- but two at the most. Three I’m under the table; Four, I’m under the host."  Dorothy Parker
Logged
#10

 

fabes

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 632
Re: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2004, 01:15:10 PM »
News to me, I am a subscriber too. This is the first I have heard of it. Anyone else know anything about this?

fabes
Logged
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

fabes

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 632
Re: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2004, 01:23:49 PM »
Thanks triggerman, I'll check that out.

fabes
Logged
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

DanH78

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3913
Re: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2004, 01:26:23 PM »
Yeah, I've been to that site, all they list is a fax number.  Hell, I'm in Chicago, I could always drive up to Evanston kick some doors down.
--------------------
The clock on the wall says 3 O'Clock...last call...for Alcohol!
"I love a martini -- but two at the most. Three I’m under the table; Four, I’m under the host."  Dorothy Parker
Logged
#10

Rock77

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3621
Re: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2004, 09:10:31 PM »
Got my issue of Travel America today too!!!

I liked Bowling Digest....too bad they went under.
--------------------
I just close my eyes and throw the ball
Logged

the shadz

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 122
Re: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2004, 09:56:02 PM »
got my travel america a few days ago.  already sent off a letter demanding a refund for my remaining time.  I was going to switch to BTM when the subscription ran out anyway, cause i didn't appreciate them arbitrarily going from monthly to bi-monthly and not refunding half my money then.
Logged

MI 2 AZ

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8156
Re: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2004, 01:06:58 AM »
When they went from monthly to bi-monthly, didnt they just extend the subscription (doubled the time left) so you would get the same amount of issues?
--------------------
I just want 2C was'zzub.
____________________________________

I am the SGT Schultz of bowling.
"I know nothing! I see nothing! NOTHING!"
Logged
_________________________________________
Six decades of league bowling and still learning.

ABC/USBC Lifetime Member since Aug 1995.

jimsey

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 163
Re: No More Bowling Digest?!?!?
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2004, 10:07:53 AM »
Actually, this past year they went from bi monthly to 4 magazines a year.  And although my subscription runs through 07, one of the magazine distributors recently tried to send me a subscription renewal invoice indicating my subscription would run out in 1/05.  I too have no intention of receiving TravelAmerica magazine for the balance of my subscription.  Sounds like the circulation manager is about to get a lot of nasty mail and/or phone calls.

I did find the web site for Century Publishing, www.centurysports.net  I have sent an email to customer service requesting a refund and expressing the unacceptable substitution of another magazine.  From some other research, it appears that they recently may have also discontinued publishing hockey digest and basketball digest, however I have not confirmed that with anyone who has been a subscriber.  I will update if I receive a response from customer service.

Edited on 12/30/2004 11:41 AM
Logged
Pages: [1]
« previous next »