Gmat Reviews

The Economist is failing and fading fast

The Economist has gradually reduced its usefulness to me and become more intrusive and now wants to extort more money for this privelige Intrusive in that if I keep deleting the email newsfeeds they send me they ask do I still want them well err yes or why did I opt in and this is very Orwellkian checking my online activity Now I just click on one item randomly then log off again The sub for a print online for 3 years is now 762 around 5 per issue Or you can opt for autorenew and get a massive 20 off but yes I have read the posts here about that And yes just tried to contact a human in the UK about a discount I have been a loyal subscriber for over 20 years now all you get is bots or somebody in The Philippines India wherever milking you for details like name address why can t they just give you a price first I gave them my subscriber number then after all that long time wasted online they just give you the price they quoted first no chance of negotiating lower They are now somewhat to the Left of Trotsky very anti-Trump I want neutral news coverage not the Socialist Worker or Pravda thanks And last but most important to me the back inside page once had useful country by country coverage of data like industrial production wages 3 month and 10 uyear interst rates this coverage has gradually been downgraded and whittled away it is now little more than inflation and unemployment I can get that data free online don t need to pay over 250 a year for that I once asked them why the data has been reduced and guess what no satisfactory answer just fobbed off And if I want to read a Marxist rag The Guardian is free and also more UK oriented the Economist has become very US oriented but I live in the UK and it was once a British magazine They also hide any email addresses so you have to use their terrible online chat bot system I just emailed their letters page on the offchance they may get back but there s more chance of Trump resigning and offering Biden the Presidency again than that I reckon So now I shall just let the sub expire thankfully I did not go for autorenew unless on the slim chance they do get back and I will use sites like the OECD databases and go on sites like The Guardian for my Soviet Kremlin briefing at least that s free for the privelige

To cancel subscription you need to go

To cancel subscription you need to go through a live chat - WHAT Not possible to just click cancel subscription Did not expect this from a magazine online in this case like the Economist Unacceptable