Bas pro shop

[RHenn]

I just found out that Bass Pro Shop gave me a free membership to BASS. I found this out when I started to get their lousy mag. I contacted them and asked to have the membership cancelled and was tol that is was cancelled, yet I still get the mag and literature in the mail.
Do you think I can write something on all the junk I get from them that will cause it to be sent back at their expense?

[anglerdave]

Okay. You are getting a magazine for free and you don't want it anymore? I take it your not a Bass fisherman.

[nowindknots]

Donate it to the library, or take it to a senior citizens home until they stop sending them.

Jim

[teasels]

take the mags to the local VA they need something less than 5 yrs old and not good house keeping

[Dahema]

A friend in the magazine business (Flyfishing, believe it or not) told me that it costs the publishers *more* to go into the computer to delete your address from the mailing list than it costs to mail you the remaining issues of a subscription after cancellation.

Now....I find that difficult to believe; but he swears it's true. That's why magazines continue to arrive after you cancel your order until the original subscription expires.

Dahema

[nighthawk]

Donate them for sure. It will take BASS about 6-12 months to stop sending them to you.

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Eric "nighthawk"

It's a great day for fly fishing!

[RHenn]

Good idea about donating them, we have a VA clinic here.
I did hear from BASS today, and was told that I needed to send them my address in order for them to delete my name from the list, which I did.
I used to be a bass fisherman, but became so disgusted with the club I was in, I gave it up altogether. The infighting and petty stuff got in the way of having fun. Same thing happened with skeet shooting when I had to run the range. When it becomes a job, it's just no fun. Rob

[Marco]

Apparently there is some sort of a membership/subscription drive for BASS now going on. I too received a package complete with a BASS sticker, a plastic membership card and an "invitation" to subscribe. I have no problem with BASS but I chose not to subscribe and threw everything in the trash.
Now if I could have a shirt with all those sponsors decals............................I'd lose my lunch.

Mark

Mark

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I'd rather be in Wyoming!

[RHenn]

I guess the only wat they can get members is to enroll them fro free and not tell them.

[Jtaylor]

Some years ago somebody signed me up for Bass but didn't pay the subscription fee so I got billed over and over again. I wrote them several times stating that I did not want to be a BASS member. Finally the tone of the bills became somewhat hostile by suggesting that I was a deadbeat and that I would probably be forever banned from joining their club.

I wrote back that I had no intention of joining their group and if I got one more bill from them I would file a complaint with the Kansas Consumer Protection office. There was no bluff on my part but somebody got the message and I have not heard from them since. I don't know if this is their normal business practice but I have some strong negative feelings toward BASS.

[This message has been edited by Jtaylor (edited 16 October 2005).]