You are lucky i never got my free gift when i initially subscribed.
Before you say i got a discount value again, NO I DID NOT.
This subscription was a gift from my mother so it was not possible to get it resolved without cancelling it and her geting the money back and re-ordering.
Guess what, will i be renewing ? Never.
Also some magazines arrive very late or not at all. It has cost me more to buy subscription + missing magazines than just buying them all from my local shop.