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Old 05-16-2008, 09:53 AM
NoLuvForPletch NoLuvForPletch is offline
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Originally Posted by ArlJim78
i don't use the form on a regular basis, although I like to pick one up on Saturdays to read at breakfast. but what I don't get is the idea that its overpriced. it comes to less than $1 a card, and you get very good pp's, commentary, analysis, features. i think its a great bargain. of course if you play a lot there are other ways you can go but still, not a bad deal if you ask me.
For the last time, the amount of $5.50 is a secondary complaint. The decrease in quality while increasing cost is the rub. But, while we are dicussing cost, $5.50 a day for me is close to $1500 a year on a newspaper. If I were purchasing it once a week, fine, it's a magazine. An expensive magazine, but a magazine. It is a daily newspaper, that has many other additional revenue streams (endless Westpoint ads, classifieds, etc...) that I still feel the cost is excessive.

But my bigger beef is the quality, or lack there of...
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