Bloomberg: Business News 4+

I has been a client of various Bloomberg LP information services for many years. Even since I was the Vice-president and Director of Economics at the former Government Development Bank (GDB) for Puerto Rico.

The bast cover of key economic and financial issues, beside other very relevant related issues is extraordinary. I was a client for many years of the excellent WEFA and S&P’s DRI information services. However, Bloomberg LP information services are always of extreme relevance and all updated with the latest information available.

The professionalism and data checking in all articles shows an outstanding information system. As a regular reader of various themes of Bloomberg LP I always feel a great trust in what I read.

I enjoy Bloomberg news and the news app on my iPhone. However I subscribed under their promo for $90 for six months and then that rolled over to an exorbitantly priced $200 for six months. At the time when that happened I thought I was getting a year at that rate. When I realized six months later and they roll me over again at $200 that this was only for six months and I was spending $400 every year for news that I only read lightly I requested that they cancel the renewal and refund the $200. it had only been a few days since they rolled me over and they had never sent me any advance notice that the charge was going to go through for a six month additional subscription. They were very rude and totally disinterested in meeting my needs and refused to cancel the renewal and refund my money or even give me a prorated refund. They just kept going back to their subscription policy which is 100% inflexible. This kind of subscription policy is a great way to ruin relationships with supposedly valued clients and they should be ashamed of themselves. Once the six-month period is over I will make sure to never subscribe to Bloomberg again.

I pay the $35 monthly subscription fee, and am overwhelmed with ads in every article I read. The static ads are one image block, repeated multiple times through the body of the article, and the ad blocks are replaced rapidly every few seconds, with a new ad image. While this new ad image is loading, the text jumps as the last ad image was removed, because it takes up less space now, but there is still a big blank spot on the screen. When the new multiple-image ad loads throughout the article text, the article text jumps again to make room for the ad. Now I’m also getting ads that arrive with sound on, loading in one mystery location in the article, that you can’t turn off the sound. If you touch the playing ad wrong, Safari is opened because it wants to sell you NOW! These sound ads also heat up the iPad because it’s processing so furiously. Hey Mike, Why should I pay the $35 if I can’t read through an article? Are you listening?