Horse and Hound price gone up...

[tw1nn1ejo]

Again

It's no longer £2.10 but £2.20!

 

[Nic]

Not just because it's the show schedule ones? they are always more expensive.

 

[Rambo]

Shocking

I pay quarterly anyway so never actually knew how much it cost in the first place

 

[tw1nn1ejo]

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Not just because it's the show schedule ones? they are always more expensive.

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Oh is it just for this week then?

 

[BBs]

No every year they do this sneeky price increase when its the Show Specials but they stay this price for the rest of the year.

Indeed Rambo...SHOCKING

Very expensive for a weekly publication, and although once more shows are on it gets interesting over the xmas period HH was wafer thin with hardly any info whatsoever.

 

[tw1nn1ejo]

Oh how annoying

I remember about 3 years ago when it would cost around £1.95 and it keeps going up

I'm lucky to have a sister and we take it in turns paying every week

 

[tw1nn1ejo]

Edited to say: How annoying

 

[RachelB]

Didn't it go up from £2 to £2.10 last time they had the show schedules... and then it didn't go down again?
Need to ask though - is it the first show one this week?

 

[sleepingdragon10]

You know I didn't even look

Just took it to the till and paid

 

[tw1nn1ejo]

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Didn't it go up from £2 to £2.10 last time they had the show schedules... and then it didn't go down again?

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Umm tbh I can't remember

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Need to ask though - is it the first show one this week?

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Yes I think so.

 

[Santa_Claus]

well mine hasn't arrived on my door today and i do pay quarterly so not noticed but yes it went up the same time last year!!

 

[Sags_Deer]

and to think over dec, jan and until now there is not really that much in the magazine eh!!

 

[tw1nn1ejo]

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and to think over dec, jan and until now there is not really that much in the magazine eh!!

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Yes I do agree with you but I have liked some of the new things they've added

 

[scs]

Still worth every penny though - it is the only magazine I would read nearly cover to cover - and compared to lots of glossy womens mags with virtually all photos and not much to read, last a lot longer. Even the ads are interesting....

 

[fizz-tally]

forgot to get it today,oops

 

[helenandshadow]

I didn't even notice until i read this post!

My dad pays for my subscription!

Still annoying though,

I remember not so long ago when it was £1.95

 

[sylvapak]

Im going to get mine tomorow as i need the showing doo dah thing as its my first year competeing this year! so yeh

but the price... 10p extra...

with that whole 10p... what could i buy for belle ... uhmmm....errr

what can you buy in the horsey world now for 10p?

but yeh... us horsey people have to spend enough as it is.... so H+H arent really helping.... after all every penny counts!

 

[lucysnapshot]

im sure i can remember when it was £1.20

 

[Fahrenheit]

Oh no.........not again!

I can remeber when I used to call it Horse and Pound because it cost a pound!

 

[Ferdinase514]

I don't notice price as have a subscription, but when I used to buy it over the counter it was £1.75 and that was only 4 yrs or so ago!!

 

[orton]

Mines been late the last 3 weeks running, hasn't arrived in the shop until Friday. I have even gone 2 villages over but they not had it either.

Oh, just a little sad. I remember paying 45p for the h&h many moons ago and it all used to be in black and white.

 

[Fahrenheit]

Ive got a subscription now but only because they were giving away free rugs at badminton if you subscribed!

 

[dieseldog]

There aren't any free tickets in the show one this year either - unless I've missed them

 

[Rambo]

Does anyone actually use the Show Directory

I looked at it last night and thought it was just such a jumble of information that i couldn't be bothered with it

I know when all the local show centres have their shows on because i look at their individual websites, and also our BSJA area website which has a consolidated list off the BSJA shows in our area. For the bigger country type shows, i generally know when they are and which ones i want to go to anyway

 

[SJFAN]

Certainly not as useful as it used to be but given that the Show area part of the BSJA website isn't working (message says it's not compatible with their new computer [which was installed late last year!]) it may be some help as ads have contact details etc

 

[JollyPolly]

I find it a big help, especially when I don't know what I am doing from one week to the next...which is most of the time!

 

[SpruceRI]

I'm on subscription, and I seem to remember getting a letter every other month last year telling me the price had increased 'due to the wonderful content I was enjoying'!!

Would rather they just state that they wanted to make more money then tell me what I ought to think!

 

[FMM]

We used to use the show directory before we went to only affiliated shows. These shows are all listed on each societies website so we don't use the H&H one at all now. however, it is useful for people who are doing local stuff rather than affiliated/qualifier shows.

 

[Iestyn]

Very rarely buy it anymore. OH pointed out that the article before Zara won the BBC Sports Personality award went on about how it was 25years since an equestrian had won the award and that the last person to win the award was HRH Princess Anne (aka mummy to Zara). In actual fact it was 35 years since HRH had won it - 25 years was splashed all over the cover and the article. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this one as only quoting OH. Then there was the disastrous towing article and since there have been numerous silly mistakes which is not expected of a quality publication that continues to increase its price.

 

[BBs]

Yes indeed SV there have been a number of silly mistakes.
I noticed a fair few especially in the hunting pages. Horses and riders from the eventing world and its quite clearly not them or that horse - i guess unless you are a complete eventing anorak like me you may not notice, but IMO its pretty obvious.

Shame really!

Did have to smile this weeks interview with dressage rider Isabell Werth, she was riding without a hat it stated underneath *HH recommends riders to wear kitemarked hats* not the fashionable sweatband Isabell was wearing then lol