Well, CQ sent me their plan for world domination on Monday and it goes
like this;
WorldRadio to CQ Subscription Conversion
Choices, choices, choices!
CQ Communications, Inc., publishers of CQ Amateur Radio, Popular
Communications, and CQ VHF magazine, has acquired
WorldRadio magazine. As part of our responsibility of that acquisition,
we will be fulfilling WorldRadio subscriptions with publications from
the CQ Group. Since there are several different possible subscription
situations, we have several different solutions. We are confident that
one of the solutions will fit your personal situation, and we pledge to
work with you to the best of our ability to make the transition as
smooth and pleasant as possible.
Remember, you have choices to make!
Here are the situations that we’re anticipating:
Regular (Non-Life) WorldRadio Subscribers
Current subscribers to WorldRadio will receive one issue of CQ for each
issue of WorldRadio they are currently scheduled to receive. For
instance, if you have 18 issues of WorldRadio still due, you will
receive 18 issues of CQ instead.
If you are also a subscriber to CQ, we will add the WorldRadio issues to
your existing CQ subscription.
You will also have the option of having your WorldRadio subscription
fulfilled with either Popular Communications magazine, or CQ VHF
magazine on a year for year basis. That is, if you have 12 issues
remaining on your WorldRadio subscription and decide that you’d rather
receive CQ VHF instead of adding on to your CQ sub, we’d set you up with
a years worth of CQ VHF, which means you’d receive the next 4 issues of
CQ VHF, which is a quarterly publication.
Life Subscribers to WorldRadio
Here’s where things get more complicated!
Many subscribers to WorldRadio have signed up for a very deeply
discounted lifetime subscription. None of the subscription price you
paid for that Life Subscription has come to CQ, making it economically
impossible for CQ to continue to honor your old WorldRadio Life
Subscription. But, you’re not going to be left out in the cold. Instead,
we will honor the full amount you paid for your WorldRadio Life
Subscription, and apply that full amount to: A) A new subscription to CQ
if you don’t already subscribe, at the regular CQ subscription rate of
$36.95 per year, or B) Apply the amount you paid to a subscription to
one of CQ’s sister publications, CQ VHF, or Popular Communications. .
For example, if you paid $100 for a WorldRadio life subscription way
back in 1987, and have received issues ever since, we’ll credit the
entire $100 towards a new CQ subscription, which will have CQ coming
your way for the next 33 months ($100 divided by $36.95 = 2.71 years
which we’ll round up to 2-3/4 years or 33 months.
What if you also have a life subscription to CQ? You have to option of
transferring your “Lifetime Value” to another of the CQ Publications:
Popular Communications, or CQ VHF, using the same calculations as
described above. For instance, if you have a $100 “Lifetime Value” to
your credit and decide that you’d like to receive Popular
Communications, the subscription you’d receive would be 37 issues ($100
divided by the Popular Communications rate of $32.95 = 3.03 years, which
we will round up to 37 issues).
If none of the above life subscription solutions fits your situation,
there’s still another option available to you: Use your “Lifetime Value”
to purchase items of equal value from the CQ Bookstore. That includes
books, CDs, calendars and apparel.
We want to make you as happy as possible during this transition. Think
about how you’d like us to handle your personal situation, and let us
know by January 5, 2009.
Choices, choices, choices!
--
Mark Phillips, G7LTT/NI2O
Randolph, NJ
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