Dungeon subscriptions for European people?

[Welverin]

Dragon, 1 year: £50.88, ?83.5, $72
Dungeon, 1 year: £30.95, ?50.8, $43.7

Well that's about cover price, so if yoou've been buying it off the newstand and have been missing issues it works out. You just don't get a discount, unfortuantely.

I've had no trouble with it so far, and they appear quite promptly (and consistently!), nowhere near 6 weeks late.

Is that supposed to mean all issues arrive six weeks late? Or is that the standard first issue will take a while to get to you thing?

 

[Maudlin]

Really? If that's cover price I'm smelling some huge profit margins somewhere Actually, I could get separate issues cheaper than I get subscription issues, it's just that you can't find them in retail, at all. In the entire greater Brussels area, there is 1 shop that can get a few (the others have stopped trying after 8 months of nothing), so the only way to buy a copy is if you happen to walk in there within an hour after delivery. Nobody I know who plays D&D was even aware it existed.

My beef is that apparently sending it to me equals more than the entire cost of producing the magazine in the first place

I sort of don't get that, btw. WotC, if it's that expensive or onerous, we do have printing presses over here too, ya know

Originally posted by Welverin
Is that supposed to mean all issues arrive six weeks late? Or is that the standard first issue will take a while to get to you thing?

Um, I must have phrased it in a weird way, sorry. I get them about 1 week after the first person on this board announces they got it. No extraordinary delays, and I even got the issue of the month I subscribed in, so no complaints there.

 

[LcKedovan]

My beef is that apparently sending it to me equals more than the entire cost of producing the magazine in the first place

I sort of don't get that, btw. WotC, if it's that expensive or onerous, we do have printing presses over here too, ya know

Hehe, there is even more irony that you are in Belgium, because that is where the European WotC offices are based Probably not far from you either.

Um, I must have phrased it in a weird way, sorry. I get them about 1 week after the first person on this board announces they got it. No extraordinary delays, and I even got the issue of the month I subscribed in, so no complaints there.

That timing is good to know Maudlin, it sortof gives Horacio and I a good idea of the actual "real world" timings... of course if it is shipped out of Belgium anyhow, you might have an advantage over the rest of us

-Will

 

[Horacio]

That timing is good to know Maudlin, it sortof gives Horacio and I a good idea of the actual "real world" timings... of course if it is shipped out of Belgium anyhow, you might have an advantage over the rest of us

-Will

Well, but if it arrives to Belgium in a week, you can receive it in Paris in two... and me in Brest, maybe in three, or four, or five...

Brest, the end of the European world (seriously, Brest is in the Finistère, that translated into English means "the End of the Earth")

But that's better than the 6 weeks

 

[DungeonKeeperUK]

Now the strange thing I have to say is that I have been getting Dungeon free for the past two months sent to me straight by the distrbutors... never asked for it.. never subscribed... hardly ever even buy teh magazine... Yet for the past 2 months the mag has landed on my doorstp, no accompanying letter or anything...
Now I'm not complaining here.. It just baffles me...

Now I am subscribed to quite a few groups, am a member of the RPGA and do write d20 material... just still find it a little curious...

 

[Welverin]

Really? If that's cover price I'm smelling some huge profit margins somewhere

Oops, my bad. It's about ten dollars over.

Um, I must have phrased it in a weird way, sorry. I get them about 1 week after the first person on this board announces they got it. No extraordinary delays, and I even got the issue of the month I subscribed in, so no complaints there.

You didn't, but others mentioned it and since I quoted your messages I just stuck with it.

 

[LcKedovan]

Now I am subscribed to quite a few groups, am a member of the RPGA and do write d20 material... just still find it a little curious...

It's from your RPGA membership . Until the subscription you have runs out you will get Dungeon instead of Polyhedron (Well... they are one and the same now). I had the same thing happen to me... the only bad luck was that my membership was up for renewal the following month so I only got one issue... and the other bad thing was that in a year I only got two Polyhedron and the one Dungeon

-Will

 

[Horacio]

They've answered!!

I've recieved an answer to my e-mail about subscription:

From: subscriptions@tnsofres.com

Good morning

Re: Dungeon and Dragon

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding the above mentioned publication.

Please be advised that the cost of a subscription to Dungeon magazine for one year (6 issues) is £26.95 sterling and Dragon for 1 year [12 issues] is 50.88 sterling including postage and packaging to an overseas address. We do require payment with all orders, which can be made via sterling on a sterling cheque, US Dollar cheque, MasterCard or visa. Cheques should be made payable to 'Wizards of The Coast' and mailed to the following address.

PO Box 503
Leicester
LE94 0AD
England

Alternatively, you can e-mail your full name, address and credit card details or fax our office on 01858 434190 and we will then process your order as quickly as possible.

If I can be of any further assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards

Anne Ridgway

Consumer Services

 

[Ravellion]

The premier gaming store in Amsterdam gets about 30 Dragons I think, and there are usually a few left after each month... Dungeon they get 10 or so, but you can find the last two issues in the stands usually... if there would be more demand, there would be more Dragons.

It probably isn't WotC's fault that you Belgians don't get it. It's the importer of WotC items (It's always just one IIRC). EP Games in Belgium or somesuch IIRC. They probably think "Magic" and "Pokemon" and don't find the RPG market that attractive.

Sheesh, I thought PS Games was troublesome every now and then... they look like Federal Express compared to whatever Southern European importers are available, apparently.

Rav

 

[Maki]

You, european fellows, are complaining about this whole treatment WotC gives to you. But you can´t imagine how it is like to try to get WotC stuff here in Brazil.

WotC said I can subscribe to Dragon/Dungeon but... with the shipping charges and all that (I can´t remember the exact price or shipping delay)... I decided to buy my Dragon/Dungeon issues at a local store. They can reserve issues for me every month, so... it´s some kind of a subscription.

And, about the WotC online store... brazilian costumers are not welcome too. So, I have to find their products in another places. It´s even worst because here, the dolar rates are almost 3 of the local money for 1 US dolar.

So, you can all complain, but remeber that there´s always someone in a worst situtation.