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Foxhunter49

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Just got my copy of Horse & Hound - was £2.60 last week and now £2.99.

That's it for me, I will cancel my order and I have been reading it for over 40 years.
 
wow that's a really hefty price hike, esp as there were so many pretty thin issues over the winter. I think quite a few people will stop taking it, I wont cos I love it and read from cover to cover but I can see why some will.
 
Used to have a subscription but cancelled when but cancelled becausethe journalism was so bad.Many open secrets were not investigated so it become an occasional buy, will be buying even less.
 
Blimey, that is a big hike - did they warn of it?
I am lucky as I get it second hand, and the dressage reports are a good cure for insomnia!
 
Cancelled my sub too - too expensive for what you get and I only read it for the hunting reports, so will buy it 'off the shelf' when hunting resumes.

I find the summer issues tedious as have no intersest in showing, and also find the H & H website keeps me up to date on any other interstesting horse news.
 
There's another thread on this elsewhere. I've just cancelled my subscription after many many years because they've sent me a letter telling me the sub is going up, whilst still advertising cheap sub prices (and free gifts) on here and in the mag itself. Clearly they couldn't give a monkey's about customer loyalty then :rolleyes:
 
Its gone up 39p in a week?!!!

In that case, I very much hope that each discipline gets more coverage apart from dressage which already gets way too much compared with all the others.

Hunting, team chasing and point 2 pointing need more coverage.

If not, I will cancel my sub and just read someone else's!!
 
I'm also confused why a digital only subscription is £2 more per year than the print subscription yet is described as a top offer! Surely they make more profit ona digital subscription as no printing or postage costs!
 
Was going to say anyone else noticed how lightweight it has become. Think I'll definately be leaving it in the shelf. Had gone from buying it each week, then on last rise (& decrease in content) to buying it if there was something I was specifically interested in (though very disappointed few weeks ago when last bought copy at how little content there was. They have to be making money from that number of adverts - freeads do!) to now I just wont bother.
 
When a topic like this is raised & it's on a forum run by the magasine it gives a great opportunity for the magasine to reply to the points made...........I wonder why there has been no response?
 
Jezzzzzz havent bought mine yet but like others after 36 years of buying it every week i wont no more. come on H&H justify the price hike please. you are losing loyal readers of many years. and dont try abd sell on line issue as i for one want the pleasure of actually holding the mag in my hand grrrrrr
 
TGM said:
I'm also confused why a digital only subscription is £2 more per year than the print subscription yet is described as a top offer! Surely they make more profit ona digital subscription as no printing or postage costs!
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I know - this is completely bizarre! I always expect a digital version to be cheaper than a print copy. They seem to have forgotten to do consumer research prior to setting this pricing point!
 
£2.99!? For an ever-slimming weekly?

I cancelled my subscription recently after many, many years with the intention of just buying off the shelf now and then. With this price hike, I doubt ill do even that now!
 
Call me tight but neighbour and I share! I'm retired so pick it up during the day, have a scan thro' and hand over to her that night. Works for us! :D
 
honetpot said:
Used to have a subscription but cancelled when but cancelled becausethe journalism was so bad.Many open secrets were not investigated so it become an occasional buy, will be buying even less.
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I agree, I cancelled it because of the journalism, they avoided any controversial topics with might upset any of their 'friends' as far as I could see, which made it pretty tame and irrelevant as far as I was concerned.
 
I've bought it every week since the mid-eighties, but yesterday's will be the last one. All the news, results etc. are available online anyway :)
 
TGM said:
I'm also confused why a digital only subscription is £2 more per year than the print subscription yet is described as a top offer! Surely they make more profit ona digital subscription as no printing or postage costs!
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Plus you pay no VAT on electronic versions so why is it more expensive digitally? :confused:
 
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