The Athletic - Bills and Sabres News - Subscription Help

[ndirish1978]

Mods, feel free to move this if you want, I just figured I'd try and help board members save some money as I know a lot pay for a subscription to the Athletic. The website just increased prices to $72/yr. But, if you click on cancel you will be offered a promo to only pay $22 for the year. I am posting this now since I just went to cancel my sub and figured this out, thought I would pass it on. Hope it helps some of you. 

[HOUSE]

3 hours ago, ndirish1978 said:

Mods, feel free to move this if you want, I just figured I'd try and help board members save some money as I know a lot pay for a subscription to the Athletic. The website just increased prices to $72/yr. But, if you click on cancel you will be offered a promo to only pay $22 for the year. I am posting this now since I just went to cancel my sub and figured this out, thought I would pass it on. Hope it helps some of you. 

 

Outrageous subscription costs are killing this country. $22 is an awful lot of money

[ctetta]

Just did this and got a renewal offer for $19.92. 

[BillnutinHouston]

Their recent corporate affiliation triggered me to cancel my subscription.

[LittleSammy]

Beats the Buffalo News where I signed up for their $1/6 months offer and got charged $89 on my credit card! Still fighting with their useless Customer Service Dept. to get it resolved. They "fixed" it by then hitting me with another $22 charge. Hope the Bills don't outsource the billing of PSL payments to these guys.

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

I detest that business model. I deal with that 💩 every six months to a year with Sirius XM. 

[BillsFan4]

30 minutes ago, LittleSammy said:

Beats the Buffalo News where I signed up for their $1/6 months offer and got charged $89 on my credit card! Still fighting with their useless Customer Service Dept. to get it resolved. They "fixed" it by then hitting me with another $22 charge. Hope the Bills don't outsource the billing of PSL payments to these guys.

Damn, that sucks.

 

Not sure I’d say the athletic beats them, though.

 

I had a billing issue with the athletic and could not for the life of me talk to a live person. The closest they have is a bot that answers all their emails. I could not find any way to talk to an actual person and eventually just gave up.

Edited April 2, 2022 by BillsFan4

[JoeF]

Every subscriber gets 5 free 30 day guest passes to distribute.  If anyone wants one of mine, PM me your e-mail.  30 days gets you through the draft and their draft coverage is pretty good.

 

 

[JoshBarnett]

1 hour ago, LittleSammy said:

Beats the Buffalo News where I signed up for their $1/6 months offer and got charged $89 on my credit card! Still fighting with their useless Customer Service Dept. to get it resolved. They "fixed" it by then hitting me with another $22 charge. Hope the Bills don't outsource the billing of PSL payments to these guys.

Sammy:

 

This is Josh, the executive sports editor of The Buffalo News. Sorry to hear you had trouble with your sub. 

 

Message me the name your account is under, address and phone number and I'll talk to customer service team Monday when I'm in the office and we'll get this resolved. 

 

Thanks for reading.

 

 

 

[ndirish1978]

5 hours ago, BillnutinHouston said:

Their recent corporate affiliation triggered me to cancel my subscription.

 

I'm unaware of this, could you please say more?

[PromoTheRobot]

I'm cancelling my subscription. Aside from Joe Buscaglia, I don't think they cover Buffalo sports well at all.

[Mr. WEO]

7 hours ago, HOUSE said:

 

Outrageous subscription costs are killing this country. $22 is an awful lot of money

 

As you are threatening to cancel/move your subscription business to the New York Times, ask Hochul for  $14, the NFL for $3.50, your season ticket holders for the other $4.50.

 

Boom--easy!!

[BillnutinHouston]

2 hours ago, ndirish1978 said:

 

I'm unaware of this, could you please say more?

 

The NY Times bought The Athletic recently, so I'm unable to support them further.  

[HurlyBurly51]

18 minutes ago, BillnutinHouston said:

 

The NY Times bought The Athletic recently, so I'm unable to support them further.  

Cancel Disney+ while you're at it, and don't drink Coke!😄

[BillnutinHouston]

2 minutes ago, HurlyBurly51 said:

Cancel Disney+ while you're at it, and don't drink Coke!😄

 

Done!  At some point, the market speaks and providers respond. 

[notwoz]

I just subscribed to the Athletic for $1 a month for six months. In six months, I'll cancel and wait for another $1 a month deal. That's what I did with the horribly overpriced Wall Street Journal. I'm on a $1 a week deal. In another five months I'll cancel and wait for another please-come-back deal. That said, I still subscribe to the NY Times for full price. Same with the Washington Post. They are worth it. 

 

[HurlyBurly51]

1 hour ago, notwoz said:

I still subscribe to the NY Times for full price. Same with the Washington Post. They are worth it. 

 

This earns 5 Pinocchio’s

[notwoz]

32 minutes ago, HurlyBurly51 said:

This earns 5 Pinocchio’s

If you read a real newspaper, or ever paid attention in school, you would know that the apostrophe is grammatically  incorrect. 

[HurlyBurly51]

21 minutes ago, notwoz said:

If you read a real newspaper, or ever paid attention in school, you would know that the apostrophe is grammatically  incorrect. 

I'll send your feedback to Tim Cook.  I'm sure he won't be as butt hurt as you.

[notwoz]

9 minutes ago, HurlyBurly51 said:

I'll send your feedback to Tim Cook.  I'm sure he won't be as butt hurt as you.

And what does Tim Cook have to do with literacy? He has nothing to do with the Washington Post and its "Pinocchio" metric for lies. Or perhaps you don't have a clue.