New Nikon Magazine, Direct Debit warning.

[david357]

Like many others I have subscribed to the new magazine, £5 for the first three issues is great, if it's good I will let the direct debit run and save money, otherwise I will cancel.

However! The subsciption deal was £5 for three, then £12-49 by quarterly direct debit, as printed in my order confirmation.

I received another email today, welcoming me to the mag, and with subscription details as follows:

1 payment of £5-00 to be taken for the first three issues.
Further payments of £49-99 to be taken annually.

I have emailed them telling them to change the instructions, but I thought I would let others know.

 

[arclight]

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=4134277#post4134277

Yes - if you take a look at that thread you'll see that you will need to cancel the DD after issue 3.
Seems to be a common ploy with these sort of offers. No doubt some folk forget to cancel and get caught out.

 

[david357]

I wasn't so bothered about having to cancel within three months, but someone may get a shock when they are expecting a dd of £12-49 and they take £49-99!

 

[roseway]

I wasn't so bothered about having to cancel within three months, but someone may get a shock when they are expecting a dd of £12-49 and they take £49-99!

And to be a little bit picky, £49.99 is 3p more than 4 x £12.49.

 

[MartynK]

Yeah. Amazon keep punting their Prime package, free for 30 days, but I think a few people on here got caught when they forgot to cancel it in time. IIRC, Amazon were pretty reasonable about it. I don't know about this deal, I don't like debit orders though.