malcolm woodcock 1 Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 I subscribe to the magazine but just been to WH Smiths and the copies on sale there have a 'Building in Foam' booklet but none given out to me as a subscriber. Would I be better off cancelling my subscription and buying from WH Smiths in future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuban8 Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 Subscription means that they already have you..........free booklet in WHS copies are designed to attract the buyer who may just be browsing. There always used to be a rumpus over the little plastic freebies that were included with news stand copies and not to the subscribers IIRC...........still have my rib setting angle widget from 80s or 90s, years ago anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Kearsley Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 This puts me in mind of the situation you often find when coming to renew things like car insurance. You are quoted £X to renew and you go on to a comparison site and find that you are quoted significantly less as a new customer. It's effectively a negative loyalty incentive! A week or so ago I was quoted £61 by a well-known car breakdown recovery organisation to renew my cover for a year - up from £38 the previous year. I did the same comparison online exercise and found a quote from the same organisation much lower than they'd quoted me to renew. So I phoned them and told them I didn't want to renew and the reason why. The guy on the end of the phone instantly, without any hesitation, offered to renew my cover for the previous year's price - £38. To me they were just "trying it on" and hoping I would pay up without question. I find this whole "anti-loyalty" mentality distasteful I'm afraid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin b Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 2 hours ago, Tim Kearsley said: This puts me in mind of the situation you often find when coming to renew things like car insurance. You are quoted £X to renew and you go on to a comparison site and find that you are quoted significantly less as a new customer. It's effectively a negative loyalty incentive! A week or so ago I was quoted £61 by a well-known car breakdown recovery organisation to renew my cover for a year - up from £38 the previous year. I did the same comparison online exercise and found a quote from the same organisation much lower than they'd quoted me to renew. So I phoned them and told them I didn't want to renew and the reason why. The guy on the end of the phone instantly, without any hesitation, offered to renew my cover for the previous year's price - £38. To me they were just "trying it on" and hoping I would pay up without question. I find this whole "anti-loyalty" mentality distasteful I'm afraid. AS Esther used to say, "that's life". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Crook Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 With subscription, I paid £55 for 13 issues, and got a nice hardback WW2 aircraft book thrown in. 13 issues from Smiths would cost £82.55, plus a trip to the town. I think I'll keep subscribing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hooper Posted March 6, 2023 Share Posted March 6, 2023 I called in Smiths last week, and there were several Traplet publications on sale in the hobby mags section - at least one dating back to 1995. Old stock? Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth Ashby Moderator Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Hi all, I've spoken to Mortons about this and they've said that they've been bagging some copies of RCM&E only at WH Smiths as a retail exclusive. What they're bagging is very old stock from Traplet. When subscribers renew, they get 2 bookazines along with paying significantly less than the shop price. Hope that helps Beth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leccyflyer Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 Thanks for the explanation Beth Is there any chance that in a future issue you might include a flexi-disk on the front cover with Tim Hooper playing the ukulele? They would literally fly off the shelves- guaranteed. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hooper Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 On 07/03/2023 at 10:38, Beth Ashby Moderator said: Hi all, I've spoken to Mortons about this and they've said that they've been bagging some copies of RCM&E only at WH Smiths as a retail exclusive. What they're bagging is very old stock from Traplet. When subscribers renew, they get 2 bookazines along with paying significantly less than the shop price. Hope that helps Beth Hiya Beth, These old Traplets publications were not bagged as inclusive with RCM&E, but were displayed as separate items. Beyond Morton's control, I know. TIM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Griff Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Mine was bagged along with the magazine....whsmiths special ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outrunner Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 Sounds like a bit of debaging going on in Smiffs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth Ashby Moderator Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 On 08/03/2023 at 20:50, Tim Hooper said: Hiya Beth, These old Traplets publications were not bagged as inclusive with RCM&E, but were displayed as separate items. Beyond Morton's control, I know. TIM Thanks Tim, are you able to tell me the WH Smiths you saw these in seperately so I can let them know? Happy if you want to PM. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIMON CRAGG Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 Bagged or not, its still a great read and has survived where many others have fallen by the wayside. Am I biased?. Well, my photos were deemed good enough for "Parting Shot", so I'm a happy camper at the mo!. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Hooper Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 5 hours ago, Beth Ashby Moderator said: Thanks Tim, are you able to tell me the WH Smiths you saw these in seperately so I can let them know? Happy if you want to PM. Hiya Beth, It was in Telford Town Centre. I was just a bit concerned that an interested punter might buy them without knowing that they're decades out of date! Tim 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael cawood Posted March 13, 2023 Share Posted March 13, 2023 I bought my copy of RCME on the Friday it came out from Tesco in York and it was in one bag with the book "FLYING MODELS MADE FROM EPS FOAM". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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