It pays to bargain ...........

[Phil Pascoe]

Rather than corrupt another thread - it pays to bargain. Someone was advised to threaten to leave their broadband provider to get a better deal - on a different tack I rung up to cancel my Times subscription as it was £24 per month and could think of better things to do with nearly £300 a year. The woman asked how I used the subscription and I said just to read on a desktop, no tablet etc. and the cost was magically reduced to less than £9 a month.

 

[Selwyn]

Subscribe to the telegraph online for £100 a year and get amazon prime free

 

[Claymore]

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[Graham Orm]

Subscribe to the telegraph online for £100 a year and get amazon prime free

Or just subscribe to Amazon prime fo £72 a year and be happy!

 

[AES]

Claymore wrote, QUOTE: If you subscribe online to magazines are you able to print a page off the screen? I have been thinking of woodworking mags in the States...if i could print the odd page it would be very useful. UNQUOTE:

I'm not sure, but you may remember a thread on here a while back with me (and several others) signing the praises of my Kindle (Amazon). It's very good for pure print books, but NOT very good with pix and diags (but my Kindle is an OLD model). BUT during the Forum discussions that followed, it came up that you aren't supposed to be able to print a page from Kindle (I stress here I'm talking about books here, I have no mag subscriptions). Anyway, I ended up "proving" that from my Kindle anyway, I definitely could print out a page form a book - any page. It is quite easy really - you just bring the page up on the PC screen (the Kindle connects with the cable provided to my laptop PC - Win 7) and just print a screen shot. Bob's yer uncle!

I stress that I'm talking books here, NO idea about mags, AND doing that is easy but a bit time consuming. I've never tried, but I think I'd get a bit bored with trying to print out an article of, say, 4 or 5 pages long every week or month a new mag came out.

Final caveat - I am NOT a PC expert, VERY far from it, so it MAY be easier than what I've described above, and also COULD be easier (or harder) if you were using, say, a tablet.

More I dunno, sorry, but hope that little bit of definite info could help.

AES

 

[monkeybiter]

I wonder if you could scan a Kindle?

 

[AndyT]

You can download the Kindle software to run on any tablet, phone, laptop or PC. There's nothing special about it - it's just an e-reader which works on your DRM protected library.
You can use any number of devices, all linked to your same library.
You can "buy" books from Amazon and read them without buying any hardware from them.

So if you have the Kindle software running on a PC I expect you should be able to use print screen or the snipping tool to print the bits you want. I've not tried this myself but unless the Kindle software can prevent the other software running, I don't see why it wouldn't work.

 

[Halo Jones]

I subscribe to the digital version of Popular Woodworking and that just comes as pdf so it is easy to print off the odd page. Not sure how the others are delivered digitally.

H.

 

[whiskywill]

If I want to print something that is unprintable I use the Snipping tool to take a photograph of the page, save it, open it, and print it.

 

[Steve Maskery]

In a similar vein, Phil, I've just had my renewal quote for my car. I did expect it to go up, because of my theft claim, but it was an eyewatering amount. So I went to money-saving-meerkat and found a quote for £90 less.

So I rang Tesco and told them I had a better offer. They asked me if anything has changed and I said Yes, I've had a birthday and am Retired and I've had a towbar fitted. This, apparently, was enough to bring the price down by £40. I told them what I had been quoted.... twiddley-twiddley... "I can't do anything on the price but I can offer you a £50 Tesco voucher".

So it's still a 10% rise on last year, but a decent result, especially as I was very pleased in the way Tesco handled my claim, not just the amount, but the process.

 

[Flynnwood]

It's all about the attrition rate that is pre-planned for by any large company.

If you have say 100,000 or, a million customers, there is a percentage of those customers that will accept the renewal or continue the subscription, and a percentage of others that question the price/terms. That is where the rate of attrition comes into play and the effect on the Profit and Loss account for the provider.

Research/question every subscription or renewal !

 

[RogerS]

I was surprised to see that the last renewal on one of our vehicles was actually better than any other quote when I checked the market !

 

[finneyb]

I was surprised to see that the last renewal on one of our vehicles was actually better than any other quote when I checked the market !

Me too ! They must have realised that people know the game - they will beat the market for a few years to lull us into a false sense of security and then revert to an attempted screwing at every renewal.

Brian

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Swmbo has just halved the cost of the household insurance and has an offer that's less than half of the car insurance due in January. I've got to do the electricity again although I'm on a good fixed rate til 1/19.

 

[pollys13]

Once I found out the hard way with car insurance.If you allow them to auto renew the policy quite a big increase on the original. Always check Money Saving Expert for best deal, always get a good price.
It pays to bargain, I was selling some old carving tools on Ebay, chap came along, " there a bit expensive for me but I would really love to buy them. "
Me, and I would really... love to sell them to you..... Buy It Now...
I wasn't being nasty or mercenary.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Interestingly we only had notification of the automatic renewal of the household insurance on Monday yesterday - they couldn't possibly have planned that, could they? :?