With the economy bottoming out, most of us are spending what used to be our entertainment money to keep gas in our tanks and our homes heated and cooled. Magazines are a luxury that we are finding difficult to justify. You can of course look at many magazine articles on the Internet but it just isn't the same. You want to be able to curl up in a chair with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine and enjoy your favorite publication.
It goes without saying that you don't want to just impulse buy your magazines at the grocery store because the individual copy rate is always much more expensive than having a subscription. Where can you find the best deals on your subscriptions? Most magazines these days are quite desperate to keep you as a subscriber, if you are scheduled to renew you will begin getting offers six months into the subscription. Don't accept the offer too early. You want to be able to compare what they are offering you with what is offered at some of the major magazine outlets on line.
There are many websites that claim to offer discounts, www.magazines.com is one of the best known. They claim to offer up to 90% off on magazine subscriptions. They may very well on some obscure magazine that no one wants; on the most popular the savings are much closer to 50% off the cover price. There are also a lot of variables so be very careful to check how many issues you are talking about when you compare the Internet offerings to what the magazine itself was offering you to renew.
Other sites include www.mags4cheap.com , www.discountmagazines.com and www.magsonthenet.com are also websites that advertise discounts as high as 93%. Again there may be a magazine with 93% discount off of face price but on most magazines you won't see that. Prices on most of these sites were actually identical.
One discount site that offers some really discounted prices is www.magsforless.com . The problem with this site is that it has a very limited number of magazines that are offered for $8.95. If the subscription that you are considering is one of the ones they offer this is your best bet of the websites.
There are other options for getting not only big discounts but for getting your magazine subscriptions for free. All of us have some airline miles just sitting in our account. Considering how difficult it has become to turn those miles into a trip why not trade those miles in for a magazine subscription. Check with your miles provider to see if this option is available to you.
If you belong to www.mypoints.com , and why wouldn't you, not only can you get up to 250 points for every subscription, you can trade in your points for a gift card to magazines.com. This is a great way to not only save on your subscription but make additional points on your subscription that you can trade in for a free subscription.
The economy is tight; all of us are tightening our belts. It may take a little longer to find the best rates on the subscriptions that you can't live without but there are bargains out there, you just have to shop smart.