I've been thinking about renewing, but they upped the price $10 a year to
$69 from the $59 it costs the first year, evidently.
Now I try to get each dollar to stretch a little bit more, so I've been
trying to figure out how we can get the introductory rate every year. $10 a
year difference may not seem that important to some, but over 30 years it
would add up to $300. ($400 plus if you include the interest you could have
earned on that money during that time)
I thought about letting our coverage lapse, but unless you let it lapse by
a significant amount (say, 6 months), they probably will just automatically
renew you at the higher rate.
Anyone have experience with this? Perhaps I should just do a new
membership under my wife's name this year? Then I could do a "new"
membership under my name at the end of next year?
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Can't speak about the travel clubs, but we've done that for years on our
magazine subscriptions. They most always come back with a cheaper
offer once the subscription runs out.
We've probably had over a dozen "new" subscriptions of Southern Living,
amongst other magazines.
My renewals for US News dropped from $45 to $10 a year in less than
three months.
The NY Times regularly offers half price for three months before
reverting to full price. I always cancel after the three months and
usually about six weeks later they call or email offering the half price
again.
I never expected such, but I let two credit cards expire this year
(needed to weed out a few, so I didn't call to verify the replacement
cards).
One offered me $25 and the other $100 if I would reconsider (both no
fee). I did, but after making a few required charges, they are now
sitting in a drawer.
I'll probably drop both next year.
The best credit card deal I ever got was from Bank of America. They
offered 1.9 percent for 6 months as long as there were no late payments
or over limit purchases. The small type included a note that payments
posted, not received but posted, after 2 p.m. would be credited the next
day.
I put the money that I would have spent on the purchases in a money
market went to branch to make the payments a few days in advance and on
the 6th month took funds from the money market and paid the card in
full. Never used it again.