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BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
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Anyone here subscribe to garden news magazine ? I've bought it in store for a while and as I'm now getting busier at work I decided to subscribe to it. Last week I bought it in store forgetting my subscription started that week and I noticed if you buy it in store you get 2 packs of seed but if you subscribe you get 1 packet. Surely that's not fair. I complained and they said your saving money on your subscription and yes I'm saving a few pennies I'd rather have the seed. THOUGHTS ??

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Are they still giving T&M seeds on the cover?  If so, you’re probably better buying the seeds elsewhere, we have people on here saying they’re not what’s in the packet, and I don’t find the germination at all good. 
    Better to have a cheaper mag and buy the seeds you need. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    I buy a lot of seeds way to many really, I give a lot of plants to friends family and charity but it's the principle of deceiving readers. It's my favourite magazine 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    It's your choice though isn't it. You can pay more in a shop and get 2 packets of seeds or pay less for the magazine on a sub and make do with 1 free packet. Why is that deceitful?
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    Lizzie27 said:
    It's your choice though isn't it. You can pay more in a shop and get 2 packets of seeds or pay less for the magazine on a sub and make do with 1 free packet. Why is that deceitful?
    Because I didn't know and I wouldn't have if I hadn't made that mistake. It's not on t+c
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It has to be down to P&P rules and rates.   If you subscribe to GW and other mags in the UK you get all sorts of freebies, not just packets of seeds.  If you pay far more to subscribe outside the UK you just get the magazine.  The same applied to Good Housekeeping and a couple of others I used to buy.

    I discovered this while living in Belgium and could buy them in the many shops catering to UK ex-pats so cancelled the subscription and just bought a copy when/if it looked interesting.

    You pays your money and takes your pick.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Would it be worth complaining to the mag then? They should make it clear in the T & Cs.  I nearly got caught out in a special offer from the English Garden mag I used to subscribe to. Sounded good at a reduced rate for 4 months by DD and a free pair of secateurs. When I looked at the DD, it was actually a recurring DD every 4 mths so not a good deal at all.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    I did moan which I'm getting better at the older I get ☺ they just fobbed me off saying it's a practice that gets more sales in store. I ain't finished with them yet lol. Picture the seen when I got home and seen 2 different covers on the same magazine. Think Victor meldrew
  • BenDoverBenDover Posts: 488
    edited May 2019
    It's just a clear case of caveat emptor.  I seem to recall when I used to subscribe to the GW mag that the issues I received were a 'subscriber only' edition which had more offers in than the one bought in the shops.  After several years of subscribing I was getting to the point of just not having enough time to read it, and then before I knew it, the next one turned up.  It probably took me around 18 months to then get around to cancelling the subscription.  I think most magazine companies rely on people simply not cancelling their subscription because on the list of priorities, it seems the last thing on the list to sort out.  In the end, I cancelled my subscription earlier this year, along with another BBC magazine which I'd been receiving for years.  The money I've saved is paying for more plants for the garden and stops me feeling depressed that my garden doesn't look as fantastic as all the showcased gardens in the magazine. And if I need any advice, I come here, or Google or YouTube.  
  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    Here is fantastic for help and advice 
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