Upset by marketing done by Goodhousekeeping

<p>I've recently started purchasing the Good Housekeeping magazine and have enjoyed reading this magazine monthly.</p> <p>I have also started entering the monthly competitions online.</p> <p>On Monday I received a call from someone at Good Housekeeping telling me about the option of receiving an extra 5 entries into the "Trip to Paris" competition that I had entered.</p> <p>After listening to this person on the line and realising that she was trying to sell me something that would cost me +-R90 pm I stopped her and said, "Thank you but I am not interested in being locked into a fixed monthly fee at this time". To which this person said to me, "But you already spend R30 a month on the magazine".</p> <p>I was taken aback by this comment, as I am not a subscriber, I buy the magazine from the shop at the end of the month if I have a spare R30. I am not locked into a fixed monthly cost. Also, this is none of her business that I can afford R30pm but not R90pm.</p> <p>When I tried to explain again that I am not interested in being locked into a fixed monthly cost of R90pm at this stage no matter what the deal is she cut me off again, this time sounding quite impatient, and said, "So you don't want to win a trip for your family?".</p> <p>The salesperson knows nothing about me and my financial situation and should have accepted the "no" when I said no, not get more and more aggressive.</p> <p>If the catch of entering any Good Housekeeping competition is that I have to be harassed by salesperson using aggressive tactics to make a sale, then please remove my entries from all the Good Housekeeping competitions that I have entered.</p> <p>I am so disappointed by this phone call that it has completely turned me off the magazine and will not be purchasing it in the future.</p> <p>I unfortunately did not get the name of the lady who phoned me on Monday as I was too taken aback by her rudeness, but the number she phoned from was ********** 30.</p> <p>I hope that you take what I have said above and improve your sales calls.</p>