In any given month, there will be an Internet website that offers magazine subscription discounts that are so low, they are free to the consumer. These free subscription offers are termed free trade publications subscriptions. Of course, this free offer is only offered to people that have already spent money on a subscription to the Internet magazine marketing website that is sponsoring the free offer.
These marketing companies are offering you a free trial to a magazine, and ask for your credit card information too. If you provide that pertinent information, then you are entering a zone where magazine subscription discounts seem to go out the window. When the free trial is over, which is probably 30 days or 60 days, the magazine marketing website will automatically renew your subscription for a year and charge your credit card for your new subscription.
If you do not catch the transition on your credit card statement, then you will be unaware that you were charged for the free magazine subscription discounts. You might have taken advantage of more than one magazine in their initial free offering, and you will be charged for all of those magazines, once your free...