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Do any of you still buy magazines regularly?
My mother used to buy several every week, my wife stopped buying them years ago.
I subscribe to the TV Times, The Oldie and Computer Active. My little indulgences.
I don't know if printed magazines have much of a future, really.
My mother used to buy several every week, my wife stopped buying them years ago.
I subscribe to the TV Times, The Oldie and Computer Active. My little indulgences.
I don't know if printed magazines have much of a future, really.
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I subscribe to the Radio Times. It gets delivered to my door every Tues or Weds. Once it did not arrive until Saturday and therefore I was entitled to a part refund of my subscription fee - £2.80 if I recollect. It contains some really interesting features eg. Article on Money Matters. Works out about £1.10 a week cheaper as opposed to purchasing it over the counter in a shop :-)
// I phone Radio Times to cancel //
Apparently the one magazine which is very difficult to unsubscribe from is the 'Readers Digest'. My mate (back in the mid 1980s) had a terrible time in trying to cancel his subscription.
Short of selling his soul to the Presbyterian Church of Latter day Monks, he found the solution in his brother (a qualified solicitor in law by profession). He was to write a letter (on official law firm practice headed paper) to the RD, stating that imminent court proceedings would ensue if they did not cease forthwith the taking of sums of money from my mate's bank account. Lo and behold, the following month and all future months, the Direct Debit payments stopped!
By all accounts, the RD have a dreadful reputation in matters of this kind.
Apparently the one magazine which is very difficult to unsubscribe from is the 'Readers Digest'. My mate (back in the mid 1980s) had a terrible time in trying to cancel his subscription.
Short of selling his soul to the Presbyterian Church of Latter day Monks, he found the solution in his brother (a qualified solicitor in law by profession). He was to write a letter (on official law firm practice headed paper) to the RD, stating that imminent court proceedings would ensue if they did not cease forthwith the taking of sums of money from my mate's bank account. Lo and behold, the following month and all future months, the Direct Debit payments stopped!
By all accounts, the RD have a dreadful reputation in matters of this kind.
I used to subscribe to Heat and one or two others which I can't remember the names of but I haven't bought a magazine for over 10 years now. Actually, I tell a lie..........I bought a couple of house and home ones for ideas, just after I bought my house. They weren't cheap!
I think newspapers are the same. You can read most of them free on line.
I think newspapers are the same. You can read most of them free on line.
I used to buy a lot of interior design mags, BBC Good food, and Radio Times. It's a good 10 years since I bought them.
Whsmith still has a wall of magazines...someone must be buying them.
In the States, I always had several subscriptions...they were so cheap. I was disappointed when we moved here and I discovered there was far less savings in subscribing here.
Whsmith still has a wall of magazines...someone must be buying them.
In the States, I always had several subscriptions...they were so cheap. I was disappointed when we moved here and I discovered there was far less savings in subscribing here.
