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Why do we need to re-enter subscription information while renewing for print magazines?

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sling-shot
sling-shot Original post #1
Dec 17, 2014 at 2:08 PM
My experience of renewing subscriptions of print magazines such as Outlook group, Business Standard Motoring (now Motoring) and our own Digit magazine shows that they invariably treat you like a new customer each time although you are just trying to renew the subscription. This inspite of there being a subscription number and your information being already there in their database.

I am too lazy / do not want to do a mistake while entering all the details over and again as they are the same per last year. But still I am made to enter a new form while extending my existing subscription.

Is this simply a ploy to fool the advertisers into thinking that they are getting NEW subscribers?