Were the CMC telling little porkies perhaps..
A while ago the CC ( CMC ) were advertising as part of their membership package, a monthly magazine which they said was worth £ 4.00 a month to members.
Reading the following CMC webpage it appears that the magazine's selling price is £1.50 per month.
See :- https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-shop/magazines/
Stranger than fiction perhaps or just advertising license.
K 
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'a while ago'
until we know what you mean by that K it is difficult to make any comment? Perhaps you could give some help when this was? Your link is simply to June 2016? Was your 'a while ago' before this? Also where it was stated?
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There speaks a retailer
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so (even if true) do you think people signed up for club membership because they were going to get a £4 magazine? That was the decider?
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And your point is?
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we might find out but then pigs (or seagulls) might fly
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Hi all
Our Club magazine is priced at £1.50 (+ £2.50 for post and packaging on total order) and as far as I can remember this has always been the cost.
A Magazine only subscription to the Club costs £29 and is available to previous Members who have at least 1 year's continuous Membership.
They are the facts but obviously we know the magazine divides opinion!
Enjoy your day people!
Helen
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Thanks Helen. You have explained how the Monthly magazine has been calculated by the CMC to be worth worth £4.00 to each member.
The mag it'self is only worth £1.50 ------- the majority of what the member pays --- £ 2.50 goes on postage.
So members are paying 12 x £2.50 equalling £ 30.00 just for the distribution. This is much more than half the Annual membership renewal. and amounts to a staggering amount when taken over the combined membership..
Would it not be better to use all that money to update CMC's campsites and purchase new ones.?. or even reduce the site night costs ?.
The magazine could easily be issued on-line, over all IT platforms and save the CMC from all that questionable distribution expense.
K
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I happen to think K makes a valid point, regardless of whether he's a member or not. I was thinking the same when I read the clubs official reply.
Maybe, or maybe not, he was making mischief with his opening post but that is irrelevant if the answer is that the club pay £2.50 to post this rag out. Maybe they only pay that for non members and hopefully negotiate better rates for the bulk posting to members but once again we are left guessing.
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isn't the postage price for back issues not perhaps the cost of those sent to members?
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Surely a posting price is the same for each copy regardless of whether it's a back copy or the current one. What a waste of money!!
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well I've bought subscriptions to magazines before but buying a back issue always costed more.
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then why do back issues generally cost more? It doesn't always go off weight, there could be a discount for large numbers? It could be that the club (or whoever) has got a special bulk rate on the postage on the first bulk 'sending out' then individual copies go back to the full rate?
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again, I can't actually remember when but I think the magazine pays for itself?
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I did actually say that further up Corners. My point was the postal service would still charge the same for a back issue if it weighed the same as a new issue. The mere fact that it's a back issue is irrelevant to the post office. OK, then they could give discount either for members or certain numbers posted. That's up to the two parties to agree.
Anyway we're drifting into the pedantic stage and I think we're just clogging up this thread on a small point.
Main point that if it does cost £2.50 per magazine to send out then it does seem expensive when posting to thousands of members.
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