R.I.P JP and Four Wheel and Offroad

This is the response I got from JP about its "termination"

 Thank you for your email. I regret to inform you that this publication is ceasing. You will be receiving a letter in the mail with instructions on how to proceed with your existing subscription. It is hard to say goodbye to a publication that so many enthusiast love and enjoy. Please be on the lookout for this letter and thank you for your continued support.



Sincerely, 

Alex Woods
Email Customer Service
**Please include all previous correspondence with reply**

Ol' Unreliable wrote: .  Especially since there's no good replacement for a Jeep-only magazine.  I couldn't care less about any vehicles other than Jeeps.

So, they offered me the online subscription for the remainder of my term. Told them I had no interest in the online version but thanks for the offer. They then told me I could have Four Wheeler instead (paper copy not online) which I accepted. It'll do. It's the same old stuff in most of these rags anyhow....that we've seen over and over for the last 30 years. The Dispatcher is the exception to this, of course. And I like other 4x4s besides jeeps, too so, I'm okay with it. 

Not only no word on the change, but a subscription card is still included inside. 

Yeah, but if you go on-line to subscribe all you get is the choice of the 2 or 3 magazines they are still printing (and not JP). If they and their editor fail to explain what they are doing in one of their last print editions I will think less of them (for what that is worth). 

Another bit of info. One of JPs writers (I don't want to name names in case they don't want that known) contacted me asking if they could write for The Dispatcher. They said 'JP is ceasing the print publication so I need to find additional work.'

Joe Friday wrote: When I had problems with my subscription, I contacted them direct (several years ago) and was told that they have dozens of contract subscription services, and they can't (won't) help if you got screwed by an independent subscription agency that was using their name. I'd be worried that the subscription agency was losing their contract and just trying to suck in money before they stop delivering.

Latest update to the JP refund story: week before last I received in the mail a statement from the bank that used to carry my NRA credit card.  I cancelled that account two years ago, and never used that card to pay for my JP subscription; I always paid with a check.  So how did JP connect me to a closed account that they shouldn't have ever known existed??  And why use a credit card to refund my money when they could have sent me a check??  I called the bank and they are supposed to be sending me the check that JP should have sent.  I just wonder now how long it will take to get that $72...

A while after this was announced i was talking to a friend and not having a decent 4x4 magazine here for years we decided its time for the printed magazine to come back. We then laughed as it was a daft idea, we then said "although, I could write, you could edit, we know whatsherface she'll write something, your lad could be bullied into taking pictures...."