Another magazine scam although it wasn't a quilt magazine- it could have been. We were checking out at 1 of the bigger name book stores - cashier told my husband he could pick 2 magazines subscriptions for free for so many months (5 or 6 issues free), just to see if he was interested in subscribing. He picked out 2 and the mags started coming in. A month or two later, I was checking out our balances on our credit cards and getting ready to pay bills. There were subscription charges for both magazines on his bill! Called them up - what's going on? Turns out he had used his credit card when checking out at the bookstore and the magazines were set up as an automatic renewal on that card. I gave them a BIG piece of my mind on what a rip off they were running. They did cancel the subscriptions and we got the money refunded. Have NOT been back to the book store either if they are going to be involved in scams like this, I don't want to be their customer.
Quilting magazines - I love em but they are just getting too expensive. I have let all of my subscriptions expire. We like to check out the flea markets and thrift stores and I have found tons of the mags for .25 and .50 each. At present, I am going through all of my magazines and cutting out patterns I want to try. Bookcase is just too full. Most mags only have 1 or 2 patterns I am interested in making. Then I will donate what is left as there are still lots of patterns in each mag. After going through about 20 of them last night, I was amazed at the patterns that are duplicated. So many patterns are available for free on the internet , I just can't see spending a lot of money on magazines anymore. Gives me more fabric money. :-)
Didn't mean to write a book here this morning. Hope everyone has a nice day.