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Advocate Going Up Again
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:16 am
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:16 am
Got an email this morning, they are switching from Monthly Billing to weekly billing. The end result is you will be paying 9% more a year and your billing date will drift due to 4 weeks not always lining up on the calendar.
Time to cancel that rag…
quote:
Thank you for being a subscriber. Your support makes it possible for the largest newsroom in Louisiana to deliver both local and statewide journalism to readers across south Louisiana. I’m writing you today to inform you we will be standardizing our billing from a monthly cycle to every four weeks.
You will be billed every four weeks upon renewal after May 1, 2023. Here are a few important questions and answers about your subscription: What's the reason for this? We’re changing our billing cycle to 4 weeks to standardize our accounting. Monthly billing meant one price for different amounts of days depending on the month.
Accordingly, billing every four weeks is the industry standard among newspapers across the country.
Will this cost me more money? By changing to a billing cycle of every four weeks, there will be a slight increase in what you pay over the course of the year -- about a 9% increase.
Can I keep my billing monthly? Unfortunately, no. When we migrate to the four-week billing system, we won’t be able to leave any subscribers on a monthly billing cycle
How will my billing change? If you’re billed monthly, you’ll now be billed every 4 weeks. If you’re billed every 3 months, you’ll now be billed every 12 weeks. If you’re billed every 6 months, you’ll now be billed every 24 weeks. If you’re billed yearly, you’ll continue to be billed yearly.
Thank you again for being a loyal subscriber. 2023 is shaping up to be busy news year and your support makes it possible for us to bring the comprehensive coverage of news, sports, entertainment, politics and culture that our readers crave and deserve. If you have any questions about your subscription, please don’t hesitate to contact us at help@theadvocate.com. Take care, Judi Terzotis President & Publisher
Time to cancel that rag…
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Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:18 am to Tarps99
The time to cancel was in 1999. Just let it die.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:18 am to Tarps99
quote:
Here are a few important questions and answers about your subscription: What's the reason for this? We’re changing our billing cycle to 4 weeks to standardize our accounting
Translation. We need revenue. And quickly.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:19 am to Tarps99
Lol, they define a 9% price hike as a "slight increase".
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:20 am to Tarps99
Terrible idea and terrible justification. They’ll lose a lot of subs over that
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:21 am to TigerFanatic99
quote:
Lol, they define a 9% price hike as a "slight increase".
A slight increase is 3 % for merit increases.
A 9 % price hike, is right on par with Potato Joe and his administration and their rhetoric.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:24 am to Tarps99
They were always a joke of a newspaper who made it its objective to make excuses for the Democrats.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:26 am to Tarps99
It’s the quality news they provide.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:28 am to Tarps99
They should stop acting as a mouthpiece for Latoya and spending money suing the recall organizers for the names of people who signed it.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:28 am to Tarps99
Who still reads a paper?
Get with the times, gramps.
Get with the times, gramps.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:31 am to Upperdecker
So y’all will pay for onlyfans and door dash but not cutting edge journalism?
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:34 am to el Gaucho
yes, at least Door Dash delivers something consumable to its users 
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 6:36 am
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:35 am to Tarps99
I'm in the process of trying to cancel my mother's subscription. Her eyesight has gotten so bad she can't read the paper anymore. I tried to reach them online, email, phone call, texts. I was busy and missed a text from them so had to start over. Got me so pissed I was thinking of heading over to their headquarters. Now I'm thinking that maybe the price increase has lots of people canceling and their employees are overwhelmed. Good.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:37 am to 0x15E
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Who still reads a paper? Get with the times, gramps.
I had a digital subscription.
I just cancelled, BTW. It was an easy process, but their subscriber management site was running super slow. I could see a number others searching for the cancel option.
I have to do the same thing for another local paper, their regional editor hung up his pen last month, by my calculation they have one reporter left covering 2 parishes and a regional out of town editor. Local Sports has been limited to nonexistent on their site since their sports reporter left or his contract was not renewed. The only content I see are items they can pull from wire services or articles written by other USA Today papers in the state. I looked for their cancel option, but I have to call.
Here is a law that I would support, if you allow people to sign up online, you should be able to cancel online.
This post was edited on 3/21/23 at 6:43 am
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:37 am to LSUBFA83
i would imagine a large portion of the Advocates subscribers are the same folks that allow their ISP to convince them they still need a home phone line.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:39 am to Tarps99
Easy decision, quit subscribing to that bird cage liner.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:41 am to Tarps99
I didn’t know anybody was still paying for hardcopy news in 2023.
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:45 am to Tarps99
My dad gave them a check, once a year, for that year's subscription. They called him when his subscription was almost up, demanding a credit card number. He told them that he would write them a check for the whole year, but would not give them a credit card number. The solicitor turned into a horse's arse, demanding a cc#. My dad hung up and was done with them.
This was after aboot 35 years of being a loyal subscriber. I laughed when they began begging people to please send them a few dollar, "cause time are hard.'
This was after aboot 35 years of being a loyal subscriber. I laughed when they began begging people to please send them a few dollar, "cause time are hard.'
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:47 am to Klark Kent
You could give up one avocado toast for a month for the worlds information at your fingertips
Posted on 3/21/23 at 6:51 am to el Gaucho
This really triggered you.
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