The Economist

The Economist is pure propaganda journal you pay high price for. I bought it once to kill my time and it was just another bad decision, buying a random cheap book would be more useful than The Economist telling you lies.

Got a gift digital and magazine subscription. One month later, the website isn't accessible and the magazine isn't showing up. Customer service is non-existent and won't respond to emails. Maybe getting delivery by carrier pigeon would be better. The gift giver is asking the bank to cancel the order. Just save yourself the time and hassle and don't bother.

I got a subscription (annual I was told) during The Economist marketing campaign on the streets of NYC. It was in spring. Today i saw a charge on my credit card for $69. I called them. Apparently it's $69 per quarter. You can't cancel it online. They cancel it on the phone, but then don't give you any confirmation. And they say that email confirmation takes up to 48 hours do be delivered:)

So not only they are bias in their articles. They are also the worst example of liberalism - lies, lies, lies. Never again.

The worst customer service I've experienced from any subscription I've made in my life. The "customer service" is anything but that.

Bought trial digital subscription. Four days later, still can't access website. And nothing to do with my devices, internet service or location. My advice: don't bother. Buy a print copy if you have to read it. The Economist is clearly still in the 19th century when it comes to technology.

The Economist offers a cheap subscription with an auto-renewal, but do not tell you that they will never notify you when new issues are released. You're just supposed to "know" that it's weekly, and decide to go to their portal to see the new articles.

Which begs the question, why would I go, when I don't know what articles are there? What magazine assumes that it's the subscriber's responsibility to schedule weekly visits to their website? What magazine never tells you when there's a new issue?

So I received not a single notice of new issues or articles, nor any notice of renewals... then discovered it on my credit card 9 months and $147 later. Customer service was absolutely impenetrable; they only refunded the current quarter.

Absolutely disgraceful business practices. And they're in London, so... good luck suing them.

They start with the introductory offer, you can then have access to your webpage account, but cannot change the terms of the subscription, the payment method or edit your creedit card. You cannot clarify for how long the offer lasts, then you finally get a much higher ammount charged to your credit card unexpectedly. Then you complain right away and they are not going to return the total of your money. The system is set to rip you off. Don't ever subscribe to this maganize. It is a fraud!

I have not been able to access my digital subscription since November of last year and have had nothing but ridiculous responses and been given the run around by their customer service team. The subscription people however are right onto it as after almost 4 months of the run around and no access I am being hounded to renew my extremely expensive subscription. No thank you.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! I tried their 12 issues for $12 and thought the magazine was decent. HOWEVER, when I emailed them twice to cancel the automatic renewal because we are on an 18-month church assignment in Europe they failed to cancel or even acknowledge my emails. I ended up being billed for two renewals. I couldn't do anything about the first renewal because I was too late with a charge card chargeback. To cancel the second one I had to cancel my Visa card and get a replacement so they could not renew for a third term. VERY SHODDY WAS TO DO BUSINESS!

They've botched my digital account multiple times. The Economist's customer service used to be first rate but I think something has gone terribly wrong.