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Discount Magizines – Up to 94% Off!

Sue Howell — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:49:44 +0000

Again, here’s the list of Discount Magazine sites I order all my magazines from:

Magazines.com (click here to see what Free Gifts they offer with subscriptions)

All of these sites offer very good prices on a wide selection of magazines, and ship them for free. They all have good refund policies (Magazines.com will only refund undelivered issues, while the other websites will give you a full refund within 90 days from the date of ordering if you don’t like the magazine or regret your decision for any reason).

The only differences across these websites are 1)the specific magazines they carry, and 2)their prices.

So, if you want to get the best deal, simply check the prices on all sites above for the specific magazines you want, and pick the cheapest one for each magazine.

And did I mention that Shipping is Free for all the websites listed above?

I’m saving $200/yr on magazine subscriptions by switching to ordering online from these websites. I’m glad I made the switch, and I highly recommend that you do so too!

Aside from saving on my own subscriptions, I’m saving even more on gifts for all occasions. Last Christmas, for example, I ordered a full year’s subscription to Reader’s Digest for 17 of my friends/family for around $150 TOTAL (at $8.99/yr for each person – compared to the cover price of $47.88/yr). One of the friends I did this for told me it was the most meaningful gift she received that Christmas. Another told me jokingly that it was better than all my previous gifts to him put together. So I saved hundreds of dollars in gifts and was able to enrich my friends’ and family members’ lives with the gift of reading. Everybody won!

How Can Discount Magizines Be Offered At Such Low Prices?

Sue Howell — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:45:21 +0000

So how are these discount magizine sites able to offer magazines at such low prices?

The answer is simple: Companies that sell discount magazines, buy them in bulk from the original publishers after negotiating the best pricing. This way, the magazine publishers sell more subscriptions, the discount magazine sites buy in bulk and sell to consumers while taking a cut, and consumers get discount pricing. It works out for all three parties.

There’s just one thing you have to be careful about: Some of these so-called discount magazines websites are just fly-by-night operations that will promise to start shipping your magazines in 3 months, charge your credit card, and then disappear with everyone’s money before the 3 months are up. To keep from falling into this type of trap, I did some research into each company I listed (in my previous post) to make sure they were reliable sellers that have been in business for a while. Magazines.com has been online since 1996 (I checked the year of their domain registration), and MagazineDiscountCenter.com and SurplusMags.com have both been online since 2004.

So you’ll do well to keep this in mind when ordering discount magazines from places you’ve never previously ordered from. Due diligence in the form of a little bit of research before ordering online can save you from the many scams that are rampant in the online world.

Discount Magizines – Where To Find Them?

Sue Howell — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:35:07 +0000

I’ve always been an avid reader. I subscribe to over ten (12 to be exact) different magazines in a variety of areas, from gourmet cooking to financial planning to spirituality. These subscriptions were costing me around $420/yr, which I considered to be a worthy price and was gladly paying…until one day when I was chatting with a friend and she told me she was subscribing to some of the same magazines I was, but at tremendously discounted prices!

Her secret, as it turned out, was to order online from the website Magazines.com. I browsed the site and found that it carried all but one of the magazines I was subscribing to (a New Age magazine). I was excitedly calculating what my total savings would be by switching to this website, when a thought occured to me: were there similar sites that also sold discount magizines that were even cheaper than Magazines.com? I did a google search for “discount magazines” and sure enough, I uncovered several other discount magazines sites after some sifting through of search results:

MagazineDiscountCenter.com

SurplusMags.com

Magazines.com (the one my friend told me about)

What I found was that while one of the sites was selling a couple of the magazines I wanted at the cheapest price, it didn’t have the lowest price for all of the magazines I was wanting to order. My strategy was to compare prices across all discount magazine websites for EACH of the magazines I wanted to subscribe to, and pick the lowest price for that particular magazine. I did this for all 11 magazines (I still couldn’t find the New Age one!) and found to my pleasant surprise that I would be saving close to $200 a year on magazine subscriptions (my final total came to $226.08 for all 11 magazines, per year)! Moreover, all of the sites offer free shipping!

So yes, to say that I was pleased would be an understatement. I strongly encourage that you check out these sites to start saving on your magazine subscriptions also.

*Update* I later sent an email to all the discount magazine websites I was browsing, to ask whether they could stock that New Age magazine I couldn’t find on their websites, and a couple of them actually said yes and sent my a quote for the price. I picked the better price and needless to say, it was significantly lower than what I was originally paying for that magazine.