This email appeared in my queue last week. You may not find
it as amusing as I do, but here are the parts that are interesting to me.
I cancelled my sustaining membership payments in December
on account of moving out of KQED’s catchment area. I was a supporter of
KQED-FM, but I’m sure it went into the whole NPR-PBS pot. In exchange for that recurring
payment, I occasionally got email notifications of members-only activities
(like a party for Downton Abbey,
which you’d have to pay me to attend), but mostly it was other invitations to
contribute more than I already was.
Anyhow, it’s interesting to me that it took Marianne six
months to realize she was missing my contribution. The regretful suspension of
my “benefits” is a nice touch, but they were more features more than benefits
in my case. I admire her restraint inasmuch as this was the first and (so she
promises) the last reminder, but, no, I am not still enjoying KQED TV and radio
shows.
However, the one element that prompted me to save the email
and write about it was the Unsubscribe link at the bottom. If Marianne and KQED
truly meant it when she said this is my final reminder, I shouldn’t have to
unsubscribe from their emails, should I?
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