Saving the most money on Magazine Subscriptions

Paying retail for magazines you buy often is just throwing money away.

We here at YES I SAVED!!! recently did a comparison of saving money on magazine subscriptions from:

1) The in-magazine offer (the little leaflet inside the magazine that offers you a direct subscription)

Then we compared the in-magazine offer against two of the most popular magazine discount sites as ranked by Google when you search for "magazine discounts". Those two were:

1) Magazineline.Com
2) Magazines.Com

The following 9 popular magazines were searched:
1) People
2) OK!
3) US
4) In Touch Weekly
5) STAR
6) Automobile
7) Road & Track
8) Maximum PC
9) PC World

The results were a mixed bag but one thing was consistent...subscribing to the magazine ALWAYS saved significant savings against paying the cover price BY FAR...sometimes saving upto 60%!

Results as followed:
** Denotes best savings
n/a Denotes magazine not offered
(-) Denotes same price

PEOPLE 53 issues
Magazines.com $116.07
Magazineline.com n/a
In-Mag $98.58**

OK! 52 issues
Magazines.com $77.52
Magazineline.com $77.52
In-Mag $50.49**

US Weekly 52 issues
Magazines.com $69.97
Magazineline.com n/a
In-Mag $51.48**

IN Touch 26 issues
Magazines.com $38.97**
Magazineline.com n/a
In-Mag n/a (surprisingly not offered in magazine when check over the past 3 weeks)

STAR 52 issues
Magazines.com $63.80
Magazineline.com $49.00**
In-Mag $51.48

AUTOMOBILE 12 issues
Magazines.com $10**
Magazineline.com $10**
In-Mag $20

Road & Track 12 issues
Magazines.com $11.97**
Magazineline.com $11.97**
In-Mag $12

Maximum PC 12 issues
Magazines.com $12 (-)
Magazineline.com $12 (-)
In-Mag $12 (-)

PC World 12 issues
Magazines.com $19.97 (-)
Magazineline.com $19.97 (-)
In-Mag $19.97 (-)

Surprisingly, the in-magazine offer was best for People, OK!, and US Weekly by a wide margin over their online counterparts. Sometimes saving upto $26 for the same 51 issues of OK!, $18 for 52 issues for US Magazine and about $18 for People.

The only savings for In Touch came from magazines.com.

The only subscription that was cheaper at Magazineline.com, the highest ranked link on Google when "magazine discounts" was searched as of today's date, was STAR magazine.

Both Magazines.com and Magazineline offered the lowest subscription price (identical prices) for Automobile and Road & Track. It should be noted that these two sites beat the in-magazine offer for Automobile magazine by a whopping 50%!!!

You did no better than the in-magazine offer for Maximum PC or PC World.

THE BOTTOM line:
Definitely go for the in-magazine offer for People, OK! and US Magazines. For all the others, if you want a simple one-stop shop for these magazine subscriptions do NOT go for the highest Google ranked page for "magazine discounts". The overall on-line winner was Magazines.Com which either met or beat either Magazineline.Com or the in-magazine offer.

We here at YES I SAVED!!! crown Magazines.com the overall winner for today's bout.

Magazines.com

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FREE Corporate Discounts for your PERSONAL Cell Phone

If you work for a large corporate company, a government agency, or currently an enrolled full-time student then you probably qualify for a large "corporate discount" on your personal cell phone account.

Yup, you read right. NOT your work phone...your personal cell phone.

"Why?" you ask. Because most large corporations, businesses, government agencies, or colleges have large business accounts with most of the wireless carriers and as icing on the deal, pass on large savings (usually 15-19% savings) onto their employees' personal cell phone accounts.

15-19% is not chump change over a year.

"How?" you ask. Simply call the carrier you are with and identify which large company, government agency or college you are part of. They usually require proof of employment or enrollment (sometimes as simple as verbally telling them your employee number or school ID number) and then voila! You instantly save 15-19% off your basic cell phone charge for as long as you are part of that organization.

Now that's just simply cool. Unfortunately the vast majority people don't take advantage of this super easy way to save money because they never knew. Well now you know. Go out there tiger and start saving some money right now!

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Did Best Buy kill all the "old" people?

I've been scouring Best Buys for ideas for hot electronics trends when I observed a totally unexpected trend...there is absolutely no one over 40 on the floors at EVERY Best Buy in my area.

Interested to see if there is anymore to this I visited several Best Buys over the past month (as of March 04, 07) at the following locations at random times (all in California). I visited each of these Best Buys at least twice on separate days during the last 30 days and I visited every department of each store:

1) Pasadena
2) West Covina
3) City of Industry
4) Chino Hills
5) Rancho Cucamonga
6) Norco
7) San Diego (while I was on vacation)

Results of observations: Not a single human being employed apparently over 40 working on the floors...and YES I did ask how old they were. I also asked employees how many over 40 people worked with them on the floors...not a single one knew of an over 40 co-worker on the floors.

To play the flip side of this during the same period, I visited Circuit City at the following locations (I again visited each of these locations at least twice on separate days and all departments):

1) Glendale
2) Hollywood
3) West Covina
4) Burbank
5) Montebello

Observations: Every single one of these Circuit City locations had at least one over 40 employee working the floor and some locations like Glendale, Hollywood, and Burbank had several.

What about Fry's Electronics? Yup, I visited 2 locations:
1) City of Industry
2) Burbank

Observations: This place had LOTS of employees over 40 in almost every department.

CONCLUSION: First and foremost these are simply observations. I am confident that there is probably at least one employee over 40 working at Best Buy on the floors (though I did not find one). I am in no way saying that Best Buy is actively promoting age discrimination.

I like...no...I LOVE Best Buy. It's one of the few stores where employees are relatively knowledgeable, friendly, and most of the time, willing to help. They have never given me any drama about playing with their stuff and in one occasion no drama when I accidentally broke a knob off of one of the floor models.

With that said, where the hell are all the "old" people? Is Best Buy a repository for all the children of the corn who have suddenly wished away all the over 40 people? Could it just be no one over 40 applied at these particular locations?

I don't know...but I still think it's weird that in the past 30 days at each of these locations I did not observe a single over 40 employee in the camera, car audio, DVD/CD section, Magnolia (in some locations), TVs, Geek Squad/Repair, cell phones, or computer departments at seven locations.

Anyone else observe the same thing? Leave me feedback so that I know it's not just me.

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