how to unsubscibe

Hello Bazyle,

I'm afraid that I can't answer all of those. I will ask someone who can to take a look.

Neil

Hi Bazyle,

Thank you for your post - Neil has asked me to jump in to explain the offer that is running at the moment.

It is a Direct Debit offer so if you agree to give us £1 we will give you 3 issues of Model Engineers' Workshop in exchange for this.

If you cancel (by calling or emailing our subs team - details below) before you receive the third issue then we will not take anything else.

If however you wish to carry on subscribing then 3 months from the date the first £1 was taken, we will take £10.50 and will continue to do so every three months until you tell us that you no longer want us to.

With regards to your query regarding the price of the magazine that you are paying for, this is based on you continuing for a year after the 3 issue trial period.

We do this because it's the only way to divide it out with 13 issues in the year. There will be 3 quarters where you will receive 3 issues, and 1 quarter where you will receive 4 issues, but because people subscribe throughout the year we cannot specify which quarter you will receive your 4 issues in.

We work on the basis that you will pay £1 for your initial trial, then if you decide to continue you will pay £10.50 per quarter (£42 per year) and over that year you will receive 13 magazines, making each magazine £3.23.

I hope that that helps, and thank you for your feedback - I very much welcome any further comments you may have and am happy to look at our webpages to try and make this offer a bit clearer.

Kind regards,

Kate

(Subscriptions)

Subscription contact details

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 0844 543 8200

Since you don't seem to be able to use a pound sign from your keyboard, does that suggest that you don't live in the UK? If so, as far as I can see, none of those offers would apply to you and your points would be a bit moot anyway.

(Incidentally, for anyone who doesn't have the pound sign, it's relatively trivial to highlight/copy/paste from another nearby post that has one -plenty in this thread. If there isn't one in the thread, you can usually pick one up from the ads on the page).

Edited By Bandersnatch on 16/09/2014 22:47:53

I am not a subscriber as I prefer to support my local newsagents with a regular order for both magazines but sums I can do.

Surely if one gets 3 magazines for £1 and then 13 for £42 the relevant sum is 43/16 to give £2.69 per issue, reverting to £3.23 after that.

If it were my offer I would go further and say the first year consisted of the 3 magazines for £1 and three quarters at £10.50 since there is a good chance one of those quarters would be the 4 magazine one. The sum now becomes 32.50/13 which looks even batter at £2.50 per magazine.

Sorry, got my pedant head on today.

Hi Andy,

Yes the sums are worked out on a full year's sub which is 13 issues, including 3 at £1 and the other 10 for the cost of three quarters. It's hardly possible to work it out on any other basis!

Sceptics please note Kate's point:

You can subscribe to 3 issues for £1 an issue and if you find you don't like it, you can cancel before your get the third delivered.

Why do we do this? Because the mags are so good we know you'll be hooked after reading a few

Neil

Thanks for the clarifications both.

Hi Andy,

You are quite the stickler for detail!

We tend to do it the way that we have because the recipients are actually effectively receiving the first three issues for £1 (so 33.3p each) as a trial.

Our ad then states that they will receive all future issues for £3.23 - so it would be a bit misleading to include the three issues that they have already paid a pound for within our calculations!

Thanks for your post though and for supporting the mag!

Bazyle - You are very welcome! I hope that the explanation helped.

Best wishes,

Kate