30% price increase of MR justified?

[RhB_HJ]

QUOTE: Originally posted by hohobo

Why 30%? How about 50%!! I stopped purchasing the mag. years ago, just go to the library and read it for free. If you take out the ads, you have a magazine about 10 pages long with interesting topics, great pictures etc etc etc. One would think that all the ads would be way enough to pay for the magazine and lower the price to a buck or so. Seems to me, someone is getting very wealth.
Happy New Year!!!

Yep, when you boil it down that's what MR and GR turn out to be.
I had been buying MR since 69 (when I arrived from Europe), I had been buying GR since I started in Large Scale 4+ years ago.
One day last winter/early spring I sat down, had a hard look at what I was getting and decided that the library issue will do just fine.
At the same time I started writing for a German garden railway magazine which has a much nicer balance between ads and articles.

[Anonymous]

Why 30%? How about 50%!! I stopped purchasing the mag. years ago, just go to the library and read it for free. If you take out the ads, you have a magazine about 10 pages long with interesting topics, great pictures etc etc etc. One would think that all the ads would be way enough to pay for the magazine and lower the price to a buck or so. Seems to me, someone is getting very wealth.
Happy New Year!!!

[RhB_HJ]

BTW it isn't 30%; at least not here in Canada.

It is 28.77% according to my calculation.
And I'm sure according to the "bean counters" it probably is "only" 23.35%. After all those guys always take the new price and compare it to the old price, when the price goes up or down. That way they always get a more favourable figure i.e. smaller increase, larger decrease. [;)][:)]
Funny part is we never seem to have extra money in our pockets with that kind of accounting.

[RhB_HJ]

Yeah well 70th anniversary and all that. Jolly good!

If they would have liked a real eye opener and huge round of applause they could have sold the issue for the same price as MR Vol1 #1.
OTOH I was never one to hold my breath for such grand gestures.

As of the Feb issue it will be back to the library copy, that's much better value in my book.
What I do like are the reviews etc. that are on the website.

[Anonymous]

Probably because it was the 70th Aniversary, they did it on their 65th aniversary.

[Anonymous]

Gee, Maybe they just want to pay the bills. 30% is quite steep though, isn't it?

Now, if anyone can really tell me that 30% is the amount that MR raised their price, I might just consider a cancellation in my subscription.

Anyone else, anyone??

[Anonymous]

What is the reason for a 30% increase of the Jan. issue? It certainly is not matched by an equal in crease it content.