Last week Jeff shared his subscription woes with Fast Company so I thought that I’d share my own recent woes with The Wall Street Journal.

I signed up for a print & online subscription to The Wall Street Journal on Sunday, October 19th.  52 weeks (plus a few free weeks) for $99 (or $8.75/month).

To date I have only received issues on:

• Friday, October 24th
• Monday, October 27th

I was told that my subscription was to start on Thursday, October 23rd, which means I have missed 3 out of 5 issues (or every other issue):

• Thursday, October 23rd
• Saturday, October 25th
• Tuesday, October 28th

Today I went to log in and it told me that my subscription had expired and wanted me to “renew” for $349.  Renew? What are you talking about? And at $349 a year? I don’t think so.

I don’t recall seeing an every-other-day option (and who would want that anyway), so something is obviously very wrong here so I’ve e-mailed them in hopes of getting things resolved.  This is very frustrating and as if I didn’t already have enough to worry about.

[Update #1: November 6th, 2008]

After the three missed issues, The Wall Street Journal began to show up regularly along with my copy of The Indianapolis Star.  Apparently they had to find a carrier to deliver it, which appears to be my Star carrier. But this morning my copy of WSJ was nowhere to be seen.  I imagine that there are a lot of working pieces to putting out a national newspaper, but come on guys, you’ve been publishing for over a century.

Jeff put up a good post about Katie Couric doing marketing…and someone thinking that’s a good idea to push some books.

Check it out.

A word of advice to Kelvin Sampson. “DON’T MESS WITH THE STANGER! Or you’re bound to get stung.” (Cheesy I know, but hey, if Emmis can get away with that sort of thoughtless promotion, so can we.)

Apparently Sampson is not a fan of Jeff Stanger, baseball, Bloomington or books. I’m a Purdue grad, but come on, are you serious? Sure, Rick Greenspan might lay down the law and Michael McRobbie will get his first test due to the recruiting violations , but what is their stance on the remarks towards Trolley Dodgers, Jeff Stanger, baseball, the city of Bloomington and the future release of Kansaska? That my friend is the real story.