The insert will cost $2.99 unless you opt-out. Instead of being tacked on as an additional fee, the cost will merely shorten subscribers’ “paid-through date,” meaning their/your next bill will arrive sooner than it would have.
We’re pleased to report that opting out’s not too much of a hassle. Even if all operators are busy when you call (as they were when we did) you can easily input your phone number and a distribution rep will call you back, though it may take awhile.
The opt-out phone number: 1-877-486-0726.
This seemed like a pretty solid minor-public-service-oriented blog post until we realized that the overlapping sliver on a Venn diagram of Clevescene.com readers and Plain Dealer subscribers is probably very slender indeed.
Regardless, hope this helps some of you!
This article appears in Sep 7-13, 2016.
Sam, there is a persistent antagonistic slant to all of your articles.
I’m not making a judgement on the merits of your content- I sometimes agree and sometimes I disagree.
Thanks for the heads-up…but maybe it’s not your fault…or maybe it is…that the headline on your story is misleading bullshit. Your story is about a PeeDee ripoff and scam…not about readership demographics.
“Are There Even Any Scene Readers Who Subscribe to the Plain Dealer Anymore? “
Yes…old geezer farts like me and my wife…who have been reading daily newspapers since we were able to read. Hell, I even worked at one for a while. Old habits die hard…especially when…at least for now…there’s a Friday section and a sports section. Sunday papers used to be a pleasant diversion…now, not so much. Less paper on Sundays.
Your headline seems to imply that young, hip, edgy SCENE readers don’t bother with the Plain Dealer, and that elderly, senile PeeDee readers wouldn’t be caught dead picking up the SCENE, because it’s only for young hipsters who care about noisy bands, expensive bistros, the latest in craft brewskis, hipster eateries, and rowdy beer joints.
That’s horsecrap. Readers read. They probably read both. Non-readers probably don’t bother with either…or might peruse this site occasionally. Or maybe some folks get the Plain Dealer delivered once or twice a week, and pick up a SCENE once in a while. Don’t assume…it makes an ass of U and ME. Especially U.
Somebody took a useful piece of information and put a click-bait headline on it and totally changed the slant of your story. Are you pissed? If you consider yourself a journalist (you do have a Medill degree, after all), you ought to be.
Or maybe you really don’t give a damn what happens to your finished product, as long as your paycheck clears.
Chuckles the Clown
Good point, Chuckles.
It may be an updated version of the guide that was used about a decade ago by Terry Egger and Doug Clifton to help entice numerous newsroom staffers to accept buyout packages.
HEY…you CHANGED IT! Just within the last couple of minutes, too!
Did you really do that becuzz of little old noisemaker ME? That’s pretty cool! Thanks!
Now I gotta go call that number and rip them a new posterior orifice.
p.s. Retired magazine copy editor and proofreader here. Just a heads-up…
Chuckles the Clown
Chuckles – I’m an old fart too, and until this nonsense with the investment guide, subscribed to the Sunday PD. But I don’t care how much better the experience of reading a physical paper is, when they try to give me a bloated advertising pile, disguised as helpful information ( that I can get free on the Internet or from my financial advisor) and then, worst of all, try to make it sound like isn’t costing anything additional because they are hiding it and just advancing your billing date, it’s too much. They lost me forever
I do not appreciate them charging me for something I did not specifically request. Ask me before tacking something on to my bill for something I may not want.
I am an old fart and I read The Scene and the Pee Dee. I do not need any Investment and Retirement Guide for $2.99. Thanks for the heads-up and never give up on us old people. You evidently have no idea what we read.