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Cancelling the Advocate shows what a scam rag it is....

Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:48 am
Posted by Cell of Awareness
Member since Jan 2024
1535 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:48 am
One cannot cancel online.

One cannot call and cancel.

One must call and then days later wait for a callback from a high pressure salesman who will try to sell them out of cancelling.

THat is how scam outfits operate.
Posted by Smokedawg
Finding Lennay Kekua
Member since Dec 2008
5660 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:49 am to
Cancel the credit card attached to it, that’ll show them.
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
32835 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:51 am to
Still ain’t got shite on cancelling ADT
Posted by Cell of Awareness
Member since Jan 2024
1535 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:51 am to
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Cancel the credit card attached to it, that’ll show them.


I did, And reported them for fraud.
Posted by WillieD
Lafayette/BR
Member since Apr 2014
3214 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:52 am to
Or just tell your credit card to stop payment
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
36053 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:52 am to
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Cancel the credit card attached to it, that’ll show them.



Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
26023 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:52 am to
A lot of the newspapers are like that. I subscribed for one month to a paper in Montana to read one article about a plane that Dad flew in WWII. I had to call and go through a sales pitch to cancel.

Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
16627 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:52 am to
I put people that subscribe to newspapers and home security services right up there with timeshare suckers.
Posted by Cell of Awareness
Member since Jan 2024
1535 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:54 am to
Yes, it is easy but that is besides the point.

It should not be that way.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134571 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:54 am to
quote:

One must call and then days later wait for a callback from a high pressure salesman who will try to sell them out of cancelling


What on earth could he have to say?
Posted by Novastar
Member since Jan 2023
853 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:55 am to
I can't stand shite like this. File a Consumer Complaint with the Louisiana AG's office.

LINK
Posted by bad93ex
Walnut Cove
Member since Sep 2018
36053 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:56 am to
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people that subscribe to newspapers


I had a subscription to WSJ for a long time but that paper has gone to complete shite as well and has long since been canceled.
Posted by Joshjrn
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2008
32835 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:58 am to
quote:

What on earth could he have to say?

Asking why they are leaving interspersed with progressively cheaper offers to stay, I would imagine.
Posted by ItzMe1972
Member since Dec 2013
12623 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:58 am to
They sell ads based on number of subscribers. It is better for them to give the paper away than have a cancellation.

My neighbor tried to cancel because he was out of town for months and they kept throwing papers in his yard.
Posted by Cell of Awareness
Member since Jan 2024
1535 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 8:58 am to
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I had a subscription to WSJ for a long time but that paper has gone to complete shite as well and has long since been canceled.



For 20 years the WSJ had me on at a student rate which was dirt cheap. Once they upped me I left them.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
150233 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 9:00 am to
It’s 2026 and you’re subscribed to the Advocate ?
Posted by DesScorp
Alabama
Member since Sep 2017
10248 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 9:13 am to
quote:

had a subscription to WSJ for a long time but that paper has gone to complete shite as well and has long since been canceled.


Back in the day I subscribed to both the Washington Post Weekly Edition (which strangely was printed in some kind of tabloid format) and the WSJ. In the mid 90’s I recall the Post being a decent non-whackjob paper with a broad opinion section. That ended when Dubya came along and I canceled because of all the skyscreaming. I kept the WSJ longer but the writing was blatantly Leftist even while the editorial section started going the wrong kind of Libertarian (Line 1 of their proposed new constitution for the 21st century: “There shall be open borders” ). In the trash bin that subscription went.
Posted by Traveler
I'm not late-I'm early for tomorrow
Member since Sep 2003
26376 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 9:14 am to
Decreased readership, lost advertising, production costs have all been contributing factors for their decline in the last couple of decades. They are doing everything possible to keep subscribers from cancelling. So having difficulties trying to cancel should not come as a surprise to anyone.
Posted by SantaFe
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
7837 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 9:19 am to
When the Manship family sold the paper to that other guy it was a quick downhill slide on bacon grease.

They kept missing my home like 3 times a week. I would call them and the paper would be there when I got back from work, stale news.

After two months of that hassle I cancelled them. That was 12 years ago.
Posted by Giantkiller
the internet.
Member since Sep 2007
25396 posts
Posted on 5/4/26 at 9:32 am to
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Cancelling the Advocate shows what a scam rag it is....



I don't want to kick you when you're down, but you were a fool to ever subscribe in the first place.

Literally all the news you will ever, ever need is on WAFB or Tigerdroppings. These 2 sites alone will tell you all.
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