The Athletic Subscription

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I think The Athletic has great content but I think it is overpriced after the 12 month teaser offer expires. The teaser rate was $1.00/month for 12 months, then my subscription jumped to $7.99/month. I emailed them that I wanted to cancel my subscription and they offered me a monthly rate of $1.66/month for 12/months, which I accepted. If you are like me and were paying $7.99/month, you are paying too much.

BTW, Sam Khan is a writer for The Athletic and does a great job covering UH.

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Thank you. I quit over the $7.99 per month rate. Let me take another run at them.

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What email address did you use? I tried drilling down in their system and no workee

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I logged in to my account and selected “Cancel Subscription”. A pop-up offered me the reduced rate.

If you no longer subscribe, maybe you can get the teaser rate?

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I negotiate a cheap rate every year. I do the same with Sirrius radio & Direct TV

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You’ve got to call, always works better than if you try on-line.
I’ve called att so often they gave me the direct line to retention so I don’t have go wade through their menu anymore.
Truth is, I love the negotiations. Even when buying a car. The salesman in me just won’t go away.

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Same with Sirius and Comcast. Sirius’ rate is ridiculous unless you negotiate. And don’t accept their first offer. Keep saying you will cancel and it the offer keeps going down.

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Nice work JL !
Go coogs !

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I hit cancel and they offered $9.99 for the next year. This was a couple of months ago.

Most subscription based services will do that.

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On the Athletic as several have said , you have to go in to cancel w like 2 mos left. They’ll offer a new subscrip for like 12.00/year. Sometimes the new one kicks in 1 mo b4 the old one expires but big deal it cost me 1.00 extra n i save the hassel later.

Ditto w Sirius radio & DIRECTV, i negotiate a very low rate for both.

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ARRRGGHHHHH… I can’t cancel because I no longer have an account they say. I can’t get the $2 deal they offer …it bounces every time I try. I can’t locate a number to call either. Very frustrating…very. I have tried for several days with no luck GRRRRR! Thanks to those of you that have tried to help.

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Try a different browser or email address.

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I already did. I just officially told NYT to consider me dead in hopes that when I rise from the dead I won’t be familiar. Maybe that will work. All just to read the article about Fritz SMH.

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Try this….it’s the New York Times.

855-698-1157

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