I also extend my subs of RnC and SR at my local GoodGuys show. About $25 for two years of each mag. I've never had a problem yet (knock on wood), and I get a free gift of a flashlight or combo widget knife.
Yeah I used to have several mag subscriptions. I gave them up when every third issue or so was damaged in delivery. I got them with covers ripped in half or completely missing, pages folded up, even got one with writing all over it. Even after they started sealing them in plasic I seemed to experience the same. I think my mailman was just an idiot. I grew up reading car magazines and would really hate to see them completely go away, replaced by digital versions as mentioned. So I just buy mine off the shelf now and hope that there are enough who feel the same way I do to keep them in print.
My wife just got me a new R & C sub. I hope it goes well. Hot Rod sent me one of those metal working videos and wanted paid or the video returned. I told them to stuff it. If you didn't order it its yours free. The law on that is simple and clear.
I've done the same - usually $10/sub, you get something free, and you sometimes get a multi-sub discount. I think my R&C now goes out to 2015?
"Print media of all kinds is a dying industry." Damn right. Move into the proper decade and enjoy print media as a LIVE industry. Just check out the online used book searches and the HAMB classifieds, buy lots of 1950's and 1960's R&C's, enjoy. Trend NEVER sends me any crap mail.
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