I don't care how little tetraethyl lead is in it. It sounds like a horrible idea. tetraethyl lead is a known carcinigen and is most definetly a poison that accumulates in the body overtime. http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/leadtet/leadj.htm
I guess I wasn't clear with my experience. I recieved those little cards that asked if I would like to recieve this months "selection". I would put them in the mail as soon as I recieved them. I clearly indicated that I did not want to recieve said books, and I would still recieve said books so I attempted to escalate the situation by calling them and just ended up in telephone hell. After about six months of trying to get through to someone in the narrow hours that I could actually talk to a human being and not being put on hold for half and hour -- I was able to cancel my service. (At the time they were just building a web presence). They refused and didn't even acknowledge my attempts to cancel via written request (done numerous times).
Keep in mind this is my own personal experience and I'm sure it is different now and is not indicative of every case. I was a member more then five years ago.
The Science fiction book club is a scam. They are just as bad as BMG -- which I never used, but have heard similar stories from friends that had it. I was a member for about a year when I was too busy to get to the store and realized that a lot of the books that they were selling I wanted and were cheap to book club members.
The major problem with the club is that they, like BMG, send you books you don't ask for and if you don't send them back within the alloted time frame they charge you for them and WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO RETURN THEM. I worked the night shift when I had this service and I didn't have time to get to the post office (plus I didn't have a car) so it made it really difficult to return these unwanted books. I attempted to contact the company about this problem and they were impossible to get a hold of on the phone -- phone system hell...please press your parties extension if you... anyway making a long story short I ended up buying 45 dollars worth of books that I didn't ask for and couldn't return at the same time I quit because they wouldn't stop sending me books I didn't ask for.
On the positive side however they do have a large amount of popular books that are selling for very cheap prices. Also, all of these books are available at a approximately the same time the retail chains are selling them so you can get them quite rapidly.
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I don't care how little tetraethyl lead is in it. It sounds like a horrible idea. tetraethyl lead is a known carcinigen and is most definetly a poison that accumulates in the body overtime. http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/leadtet/leadj.htm
damn you beat me to it.
I guess I wasn't clear with my experience. I recieved those little cards that asked if I would like to recieve this months "selection". I would put them in the mail as soon as I recieved them. I clearly indicated that I did not want to recieve said books, and I would still recieve said books so I attempted to escalate the situation by calling them and just ended up in telephone hell. After about six months of trying to get through to someone in the narrow hours that I could actually talk to a human being and not being put on hold for half and hour -- I was able to cancel my service. (At the time they were just building a web presence). They refused and didn't even acknowledge my attempts to cancel via written request (done numerous times). Keep in mind this is my own personal experience and I'm sure it is different now and is not indicative of every case. I was a member more then five years ago.
The Science fiction book club is a scam. They are just as bad as BMG -- which I never used, but have heard similar stories from friends that had it. I was a member for about a year when I was too busy to get to the store and realized that a lot of the books that they were selling I wanted and were cheap to book club members. The major problem with the club is that they, like BMG, send you books you don't ask for and if you don't send them back within the alloted time frame they charge you for them and WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO RETURN THEM. I worked the night shift when I had this service and I didn't have time to get to the post office (plus I didn't have a car) so it made it really difficult to return these unwanted books. I attempted to contact the company about this problem and they were impossible to get a hold of on the phone -- phone system hell...please press your parties extension if you... anyway making a long story short I ended up buying 45 dollars worth of books that I didn't ask for and couldn't return at the same time I quit because they wouldn't stop sending me books I didn't ask for. On the positive side however they do have a large amount of popular books that are selling for very cheap prices. Also, all of these books are available at a approximately the same time the retail chains are selling them so you can get them quite rapidly.