The provisions of

Section do not apply to any of the following, except that subdivisions (

d) and (

e) of

Section shall apply to subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (

d) of this section: (

a) To instances in which all advertising for goods or services contains a notice as to each item or service offered, which, in the case of printed advertising, shall be in a type size at least as large as that indicating the price, that a delay may be expected of a specified period. In those cases, one of the events described in

Section must occur no later than the expiration of the period specified in the advertisement. (

b) To goods or services, such as quarterly magazines, which by their nature are not ready for use or consumption until a future date and for that reason cannot be stocked at the time of order. (

c) To installments other than the first of goods, such as magazine subscriptions, ordered for serial delivery. (

d) To any telecommunications goods and services sold by a telecommunications company, except those telecommunications goods and services purchased for use primarily for personal, family, or household purposes. (

e) To financial services offered in the ordinary course of business by a supervised bank, national banking association, bank holding company, a state or federal savings and loan association, a state or federal credit union, or a subsidiary or affiliate thereof, or an authorized industrial loan company, a licensed personal property broker, a licensed consumer finance lender, a licensed commercial finance lender, or a person licensed pursuant to Division 4 (commencing with

Section 10000). (

f) To any delay in delivery of goods or services caused by the United States Postal Service,

an act of God, or a labor strike by the vendor’s employees.