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WoopsLiza · 15/03/2025 16:11

I've just managed to unsubscribe from The Telegraph, which I subscribed to back in 2020 thinking I really should try and understand more than my own point of view. I mean, maybe I should, but the Telegraph hasn't really helped on this front, tbh.

Anyway it was a c9mplete pain. They will only do it via phone and want a long gonversarion with you. It took me about 1min amd 3 clicks to subscribe and I would not have if I knew I had to ph9ne to unsubscribe. I loathe phone calls and avoid them, including with friends, I only have one friend I call and that is a temporary situation because she has cancer.

I just think if you can subscribe online at any time, day or night, you should also be able to unsubscribe online, any time of day or night. Its taken me months to get to the point where I am simultaneously 1 not at work during their appointed hours 2 capable of making phonecall and 3 alone in the house (I can't manage a phomecall if other people are in earshot)

Yes maybe I should be a more capable adult who makes phone calls but I am not. If I'd had to subscribe by making one, I wouldn't feel annoyed. But I feel really annoyed. It feels like a trick of a scam, they are meant to be the venerable upstanding moral new organisation of the right and they have scammed me.

None of this has made me any more open to right wing views, either. What a silly experiment of mine

OP posts:
kitchentablegardentable · 16/03/2025 00:18

Are you sure?

you can usually just hit “unsubscribe” on their email?

or just block them? Or mark as junk?

AutumnTheCrow · 16/03/2025 00:47

kitchentablegardentable · 16/03/2025 00:18

Are you sure?

you can usually just hit “unsubscribe” on their email?

or just block them? Or mark as junk?

Maybe the OP means the online newspaper subscription rather than emails?

It’s a similar palaver with the Times.

Catsinaflat · 16/03/2025 01:02

Yes I had the same thing a few weeks ago. The guy I spoke to wanted to know why I wanted to leave. When I said that I don't really read it as I have Apple News he proceeded to tell me about all the articles I had read in recent weeks. "you seem to have enjoyed reading the health and lifestyle articles" this week you read 7, that week you read 4"
I absolutely agree with you.

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48151623and42 · 16/03/2025 01:18

I can’t talk on the phone so this is a fairly regular battle I have with companies. As I subscribe online I will be cancelling online, I send emails and just explain the issues and I’m always allowed to cancel online but a total pain in the arse and tends to be lots of back and forward before they go ahead with it

Sunnysidegold · 16/03/2025 06:29

Ugh I need to do this too. Thanks op for the reminder, I'm going to try to do it this week. I looked into it ages ago but am also not great at phone calls so have avoided it.

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