magazine shopping
When I go shopping price is usually the component of the experience that I find most important.
That's actually how I first found Saveur Magazine.
(The pic to the left is a screen shot of what the magazine currently costs to subscribe to)
You see I wanted to get a magazine about food and cooking about two years ago and at that time Saveur was doing a push for more subscribers. At a site I used to frequent for good online deals, Dealsea.com, there was an offer for a year subscription for 5 bucks. I'd never heard of Saveur but I jumped at the offer. I'm very glad I did too--it's a wonderful magazine.
However after my initial subscription ended, the best price I could find on resubscribing was something like $30 a year and I was far too cheap at the time to pay that kinda money. But I've missed reading it and so we come to my magazine shopping trip.
After doing a Google search on the magazine name, and coming up with a few sites like that one above, that all had Saveur at $19.95 a year, I decided to look on Amazon. As you can see to the left, they also had the same price.
My next step was to go to the source, Saveur itself.
Sometimes the magazine you want to subscribe to will have the best offer out there. Short term promotions, giveaways, you name it.
In this case, the price was the same, $19.95, but Saveur had the bonus of two pamphlet type cookbooks with a paid subscription as well as two bonus issues of the magazine.
The extra issues alone were the equivalent of a 22% discount. But I wanted to see if I could do a little better--but this offer was tempting!
And another web search brought me to Speedy Mags which, as you can see to the left, offered Saveur at $12.99. That was the best price I could find.
But even better was going with a bundle subscription. Speedy Mags, like many of these type sites, offers bundles of magazine subscriptions at a reduced overall price. 3 for $28 and 4 for $35 are the main options which brings the price per subscription to around $9 each.
Not as good as that original teaser rate of $5 that I had a few years back but still not bad. So I bought it--and a few other magazine as well. I do love to get mail. Even if I have to pay for it. :-(
That's actually how I first found Saveur Magazine.(The pic to the left is a screen shot of what the magazine currently costs to subscribe to)
You see I wanted to get a magazine about food and cooking about two years ago and at that time Saveur was doing a push for more subscribers. At a site I used to frequent for good online deals, Dealsea.com, there was an offer for a year subscription for 5 bucks. I'd never heard of Saveur but I jumped at the offer. I'm very glad I did too--it's a wonderful magazine.
However after my initial subscription ended, the best price I could find on resubscribing was something like $30 a year and I was far too cheap at the time to pay that kinda money. But I've missed reading it and so we come to my magazine shopping trip.After doing a Google search on the magazine name, and coming up with a few sites like that one above, that all had Saveur at $19.95 a year, I decided to look on Amazon. As you can see to the left, they also had the same price.
My next step was to go to the source, Saveur itself.
Sometimes the magazine you want to subscribe to will have the best offer out there. Short term promotions, giveaways, you name it.In this case, the price was the same, $19.95, but Saveur had the bonus of two pamphlet type cookbooks with a paid subscription as well as two bonus issues of the magazine.
The extra issues alone were the equivalent of a 22% discount. But I wanted to see if I could do a little better--but this offer was tempting!
And another web search brought me to Speedy Mags which, as you can see to the left, offered Saveur at $12.99. That was the best price I could find.But even better was going with a bundle subscription. Speedy Mags, like many of these type sites, offers bundles of magazine subscriptions at a reduced overall price. 3 for $28 and 4 for $35 are the main options which brings the price per subscription to around $9 each.
Not as good as that original teaser rate of $5 that I had a few years back but still not bad. So I bought it--and a few other magazine as well. I do love to get mail. Even if I have to pay for it. :-(
Comments
Here from Michele.
I imagine that many magazines are coming up with low subscription deals to compete with the Internet. Don't they make most of their money from advertisers anyway?
Michele sent me thusly.
I got a sea Kayak, now I just need some water, to put it in.
~S :)
Usually I don't subscribe to mags except for either a knitting one or quilting one...Quilting Home is the one for this year.
This year though The Special Olympics called and I ordered Martha Stewart Living from them so they would get some bucks...
The rest of mine come from airline miles - or points that I trade. Just got a years subscription to one of my favorites REAL SIMPLE.
ho-humm
;-]...
It is funny about Magazines...I use to get sooo very many...for years and years, and then slowly I have either stopped my subscriptions or just did not renew anymore except for maybe three or four....I found I wan't resding them...there were just too many...! Priorities, I guess...Of course I am a lot older than you Dave (Though I don't look it....(joke) and things do change in one's life....In my case, LESS IS MORE!
Hope you enjoy all the magazines you will be getting.
Michele ssys hello.