I became a lifetime member of the Cooking Club of America, started receiving the magazine, have an apron that says I am a lifetime member as well as a trivet that says so as well. I enjoyed the magazine as well as the items I was able to get through the club...one of which is a large electric skillet that I just love and am still using more than a decade later. But my efforts to find out why I stopped getting the magazine and the other club perks went with no response until I was finally forced to give up. It has been frustrating to be ignored, to have paid good money only to have it taken and all services stopped. It is wrong. It is unethical. It is theft.