As an ex-sailor, I looked forward to a new hobby - building a model of the Bismarck through an in-parts magazine. It would be a hobby, and I would have a model at the end of the day.
The first issue is usually at a sell-off price, so I bought one for 50p - usual price £4.99.
Only when I read through a mountain of leaflets did I find a single mention of the fact that the model came in 140 issues. This meant that the end model would have cost nearly £700 - and probably ended up in the garage!
Should the publishers of these multi-part magazines be made to show how many issues are in the series?
I once bought a series on car maintenance - handy, I thought. But at the end of the day I paid over £200 for them. A good DIY car maintenance book would have cost less than £30.
Are these people ripping us off, and should they be made to advertise the cost for the complete set?
2007-03-09
03:10:26
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