Wood Magazine "Market Test"

Michael Burton · 2004-10-06T03:27:49+00:00

I just got an offer in the mail today from Wood Magazine. It says I will get 2 years free if I subscribe to their magazine for 1 year. Well, this sounds great until I read, in the fine print, that the 3 years total consists of 21 issues. OK...since when does 36 months worth of subscription equal 21 issues in a monthly published magazine?! I guess the "market test" is to determine how many idiots exist in their subscriber base. Even if I misread the ad and the 21 magazines are the "free" part, it should still be 24 issues for the "free" 2 years. So they are trying to screw us out of at least 3 if I read the ad wrong, but more probably 15 issues with this steaming pile of BS offer. I was thinking of getting a subscription to "Wood" before I got this offer. Now that I think about it, Fine Woodworking, Shop Notes, Woodsmith are plenty. I can at least trust them to not try to take advantage of me with slick worded ad copy. Anybody know anything about why the mag. would try to do this? Did they hire the Clinton's?

Oct 06, 2004 25 Replies

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Kevin Craig 21 years ago

My 23 month old son is enjoying the smiley-face saw blade stickers. :-)

And yeah, I think I'll take advantage of this offer. It's not my favorite WW magazine, but they have decent projects.

Kevin

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Edwin Pawlowski 21 years ago

I've made a couple of their projects. The plans were right on. The latest was the outdoor bench I made this summer.

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Bob Schmall 21 years ago

Michael: Thanks for having the stones to admit your mistake, a rare occurrence these days.

Bob

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Leon 21 years ago

And especially after thinking he was so right and taking a few punches from some of us.

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patrick conroy 21 years ago

Duuuuuuuuuude - you've got no life in politics... :) Enjoy your Wood.

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Mark & Juanita 21 years ago

There were stickers in the pack?

Dang! I missed them, my 8 year-old son would have liked those.

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