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- From: alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: America Online (was somethin' about Prodigy)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.055658.22126@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 05:56:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov7.055658.22126
- References: <1992Nov02.162920.105086@watson.ibm.com> <100606@bu.edu> <1992Nov4.195917.3497@news.acns.nwu.edu> <1992Nov6.212816.13202@ads.com>
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- In <1992Nov6.212816.13202@ads.com> charleen@ADS.COM (Charleen Bunjiovianna) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov4.195917.3497@news.acns.nwu.edu> alasnik@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adam Lasnik) writes:
- >>
- [comments about America Online Service condensed]
-
- >>charge. I became further annoyed when I heard substantiated claims that AOL
- >>was charging many different rates to different groups of subscribers AND
- >>wasn't even letting their current subscribers in on the deals.
-
- >How is this any different from publishers who offer introductory rates
- >to snare new subscribers, or from check printing companies who offer
- [comments condensed]
-
- >Seems like a common practice to me.
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- I think I did not make myself clear. AOL has occasional intro offers that
- allow the new subscribers to LOCK INTO lower rates than even the so-called
- first "Charter-Members." The charter members have quit in droves, and I don't
- blame them. How would you like to join a service, only to be spat upon when
- the johnny-come-lately's get to pay HALF of what you do--permanently!
-
- This differs from what you're referring to quite substantially. Many
- companies offer a reduced-price first purchase, or special deal. Stores offer
- sales on occasion. Credit card companies will offer special deals to people
- who sign up FIRST (like how AT&T made their mastercard free-for-life for
- charter members)... All of these promotion types make sense. The AOL
- promotion schemes are rude and irrational.
-
- --ADAM "KEYS" LASNIK
-