Boyslife to the public for $5.99

[frank10]

I don't get it, the charge my scouts an arm and a leg for Boys Life and ask us to force it on them with a promise of a ribbon for our flag but are willing to sell it to the public for $5.99 a year (today it is at http://www.tanga.com/products/boys-life-magazine-subscription--5 using discount code "boys")

 

 

[skeptic]

Not sure what you are talking about. I looked at the link, and it is listed for $23.99, a supposed savings of $12.01 off a year's subscription. Am I missing something?

[Scoutfish]

I clicked on the link, and didn't see a price at all, unless I wanted to log in. Not a member and wasn't going to join just to see a price...but...I did see that (according to the site) people who looked at the Boy's Life ad also suscribed to Wedding Gown magazine for $11.99 or bought an aluminum step ladder fopr n$49.99

[noname]

Local council charges $40,000 to take a busload to the jamboree. National does it with the magazine.

[Lisabob]

I also didn't want to join the site in your link, wingnut, to see the price. But when I went to the actual boys life site I found that a subscription there costs $24/yr.

 

http://boyslife.org/home/bl-store/382/subscribe-today/

 

I've lost track - what are our boys in scouting paying? I have a vague notion that it is less than $20? Seems ok to me, for 12 issues.

 

There are some other discount sites for magazines on the web. Their "deals" are often not very good. For example: magazines dot com promises 90% discounts! Wow! And on boy's life, they show a 44% DISCOUNT! You can get 12 issues for just $24! (hmm, where did I see that same price listed?). Some deal.

 

Amazon shows a price of $24/yr too.

 

 

 

 

[moosetracker]

A question sort of related, have the come out with an e-pub version, and started offering an either/or of form of delivery?

 

It would be a nice move.. I know others have stated they got e-readers.. I just have a black & white one, so magazines is not for it.. But my son got a tablet, and I would imagine he would now become interested in the e-version..

 

Also I was suprised at how many people thought an Nook tablet or Kindle Fire was an appropriate gift for a child, so it would not be just adults reading it on a color e-reader. Maybe it is my income bracket, but although I thought it a fine gift for my 21 year old son, I would have not given him one if he was ten years old..

[Scoutfish]

it's $12.00 a year through the councils. Or $1.00 an issue> You sucribe yourself and outside of the council, It's $2.00 an issue.

 

At least in my council, anyways.

[frank10]

Ok, bad example but only because you do have to join to see the price. (which I wasn't trying to get any one to do.) But trust me, After sign up, the price falls to $5.99 per year.

And yes, I'm know that national has to make money to provide a program and I'm not sure exactly what my complaint is since I'd give them $10 for nothing if they had a shaker can in front of me. But It just feels like the like I'm being played along with my scouts when there is a better price for outsiders that the insiders.

 

 

[skeptic]

Okay, so I DID sign up, just not using my normal id. Again, I cannot find anything remotely like the $5.99. It really is not that important; but at times, it seems posters just seem to want to find anything possible to gripe about in regard to National. As pointed out by others, it is $12 a year through the troop. Cover price is $3.95, and yearly outside subscription is $24. The subscription shown on this site is $23.99, a savings of one cent from the $24.

 

Again, maybe I simply cannot read, or see what is being referred to. The only way I got $5.99 was to divide the price I found by 3. But it is a one year subscription, not a three.

 

Whatever; $12 is a really great price for the mag, especially in today's magazine market. And it is also available on-line, including much more. I give my old ones to one of the schools in which I sub, so they get used until they fall apart.

[ScoutNut]

Nothing to get in a tizzy about here.

 

Tanga appears to be a site that is similar to Woot. It has deeply discounted daily deals, and specials that last for a specific limited time frame.

 

Although Tanga does not state where the magazines are being purchased from, I really doubt that it is from BSA National. Most likely some magazine distributor wants to offload a surplus inventory.

 

The $5.99 was most likely a short time special that Tanga ran on Saturday. Today it is back to its "regular" "discounted" price of $23.99 + shipping, down from a retail of $36.

 

As Lisa pointed out, the Boys Life site is selling subscriptions to the public at $24/year, not $36. The $36 could be an estimate by Zanga based on the single issue cover price.

 

Scouts can get Boys Life at their regular discounted price of $12/year.

 

Based on their "wonderful" discount on Boys Life, Tanga does not seem to be very honest in their cost listings. Not a big plus for the site in my opinion.

[Twocubdad]

Maybe they're using BL as a recruiting or PR tool. Seems like a reasonable idea to me, depending on what actual cost would be.

 

Dues to national are $15. If it all goes to pay for BL, that's still the cheapest subscription we get in the house.

[clemlaw]

Most magazines are in pretty desperate shape these days, and if you shop around, you can generally get a subscription to almost anything for pretty close to zero. It's usually not quite zero, since they need to tell their advertisers that you're a paid subscriber. Sometimes (but not always), the renewal will be at a higher price.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if BL was in that category. If you run across another such deal, I would recommend buying a subscription for a local library.

 

My son enjoys getting his (and I'm careful to keep it in pristine condition if I get my hands on it before him). I believe we pay $12 per year in addition to the normal BSA registration fee, which seems like a good price to me.