Their objective is to obtain that credit card # and your initial order. They know, and statistics support, that you will likely not see or otherwise overlook that date a year from now and you will get "renewed" at the much higher price. This is something you might expect in today's world but seems more like something a porn site might do, not a until-now, respected CONSUMER publication. Shame on CR. It seems to make the content of their mag or site less credible.