Sydney Morning Herald complaint?

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The phone number listed for Sydney Morning Herald is 02-9282-2833. Subscription matters also run through the subscriber account section on the paper's own website, where cancellations, payment details, delivery holds and login problems are handled and where every request leaves a dated record. Have the subscriber or account number, the email address the subscription is held under, and the confirmation email showing the rate and the term. Editorial matters are separate: a correction request or a complaint about an article goes to the paper's editorial contacts, and should quote the headline, the date, the author and the exact wording at issue. If you call, note the date, the time and the name of whoever you speak to, and put anything that could turn into a dispute in writing as well, so there is something to point at later.

Charged the full rate once the introductory subscription term ended? Bring it here and we push the complaint out by email, on social media and in letters on paper.

Cancel through the subscriber account section or by the written route named in the subscription terms, and do not rely on a phone call alone. Ask for a cancellation reference and a confirmation email stating the date the cancellation takes effect and whether access runs to the end of the period already billed. Note your billing date, because a cancellation made close to it can still let one more charge through. Check the next two statements, and keep the reference beside any charge that lands after the effective date.

Still being billed after cancelling? Take it further through our complaint process: we open a case and keep coaching you on what to reply and when to escalate.

An introductory rate normally rolls onto the standard price at the end of its term, and the jump shows up on the first renewal after that date. Pull up the confirmation email from when you subscribed: it states the introductory rate, how long it runs and what follows, and that is the document a price complaint is argued from. Ask in writing for a copy of the renewal notice they say was sent, the date it went out and the address it was sent to, since a notice that never arrived is the heart of most of these cases. Ask what the rate would be on a current offer as well, because the standard rate and the advertised offer are often far apart.

Charged the full rate with no warning? Put it here, and your case becomes the record the next reader rolled onto the standard rate can point to.

Write to the paper's editorial contacts and quote the headline, the publication date, the author and the exact passage you say is wrong, then set out what is inaccurate and attach the evidence for it. Say what you are asking for, whether that is a correction, an amendment to the online version, a right of reply or the removal of personal details, because a vague complaint is easy to set aside. Note the date you wrote and keep the whole exchange together. If the paper does not answer or refuses, complaints about press standards in Australia can be taken to the independent body that handles them for member publishers, which expects to see that you approached the paper first.

Nothing has been reported about Sydney Morning Herald here yet. Our research shows what typically goes wrong for readers and subscribers of a newspaper: subscriptions that keep billing after a cancellation request, introductory rates that jump at renewal without a clear reminder, digital access that fails at login or on a second device, print deliveries that arrive late or not at all, and requests for corrections or for the removal of personal details that move slowly.

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Your complaint gets its own public page on Complain.biz and we get to work: we bring it to the attention of Sydney Morning Herald through emails, social media, paper complaint letters and other tools at our disposal.

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Yes. We have an active community of consumers, and complaints here are public: people who ran into the same problem with Sydney Morning Herald can give you advice or back you up with their own story. A complaint with a community behind it is much harder to overlook.