Wired and technology
Ok, so as far as I understand, the Wired Magazine is some kind of mag for the techno-savvy Info elite, for those techno geeks that knew about the segway long before every other person on earth.
Tonight I tried to make a subscription, through two different subscription forms on their website (Form 1 Form 2). It didn't work. Why?
Because like most of those American companies (sorry) they simply think that nothing outside of the US exists. Of course they only list their 52 states and something outside the world. They are kindly enough distinguishing between Africa, Americas, Europe, Canada, Asia, but as soon as you type in a european (in this case Austrian) postal code, you'll receive the error
"Please enter your zip or postal code.
Your city, state and zip did not match with postal records."
Ehm. Ok. So lets go to the contact form and tell them about it. I did. And wrote the following:
Hi!
I mean WIRED is a very techno-savvy magazine, with a clearly technological set of readers, most of them bleeding edge.
Why can't you guys manage to make a online subscription form that accepts international Postal Codes and Cities?
I would love to subscribe (to be precise: renew my subscription) but can't get through either one of the two registration processes. It always says
"Please enter your zip or postal code.
Your city, state and zip did not match with postal records."
Ehm, right. Because it is an Austrian zip code, matching an Austrian city. Actually the capital of Austria, Vienna.
Here is my address, please get me a subscription
Knallgrau New Media Solutions
c/o Michael Schuster
Pezzlgasse 7/1
1170 Vienna
Austria
Europe
Thanks.
Yours
Michael
What happened? You guessed it. It didn't work.
We're sorry, a problem has occurred.
Invalid Characters In Request
Completely off topic: I just noticed that this is story number 1.001.734 published on twoday.net. Wohooo! Still rocks.
Tonight I tried to make a subscription, through two different subscription forms on their website (Form 1 Form 2). It didn't work. Why?
Because like most of those American companies (sorry) they simply think that nothing outside of the US exists. Of course they only list their 52 states and something outside the world. They are kindly enough distinguishing between Africa, Americas, Europe, Canada, Asia, but as soon as you type in a european (in this case Austrian) postal code, you'll receive the error
"Please enter your zip or postal code.
Your city, state and zip did not match with postal records."
Ehm. Ok. So lets go to the contact form and tell them about it. I did. And wrote the following:
Hi!
I mean WIRED is a very techno-savvy magazine, with a clearly technological set of readers, most of them bleeding edge.
Why can't you guys manage to make a online subscription form that accepts international Postal Codes and Cities?
I would love to subscribe (to be precise: renew my subscription) but can't get through either one of the two registration processes. It always says
"Please enter your zip or postal code.
Your city, state and zip did not match with postal records."
Ehm, right. Because it is an Austrian zip code, matching an Austrian city. Actually the capital of Austria, Vienna.
Here is my address, please get me a subscription
Knallgrau New Media Solutions
c/o Michael Schuster
Pezzlgasse 7/1
1170 Vienna
Austria
Europe
Thanks.
Yours
Michael
What happened? You guessed it. It didn't work.
We're sorry, a problem has occurred.
Invalid Characters In Request
Completely off topic: I just noticed that this is story number 1.001.734 published on twoday.net. Wohooo! Still rocks.
i buy wired for traintravels to upper austria, every month. There was an very interesting article about "personal fabrication" in the last issue. so shame on me, I have to finish the book about this topic...!
I think, i have one of these old-fashioned postal-order-cards for a wired subscription hiding in my ruubish if you have demand for it.