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<blockquote data-quote="MoogleEmpMog" data-source="post: 3496252" data-attributes="member: 22882">All the people - especially international customers - whose magazines have been delayed or NEVER delivered had a '404 error' for the print medium.&nbsp; And unlike web subscribers, who can just visit an hour or a day later and find the site in working order, some of these people ended up canceling, asking for their money back - or just soldiering on, having paid for something they never got.&nbsp; Shipping problems were a very big deal for Paizo a year or so ago.If you buy from your local store rather than subscribing, every time the store has ever been out of stock was a '404 error' for the print medium.&nbsp; Again, it was unlikely to be rectified in the next hour or even the next day.&nbsp; If the store didn't order more copies, it would NEVER be rectified, and you'd never have an opportunity to even SEE the magazine.If you lose your magazine, or your dog chews it up, or your cat throws up on the page you needed, or it gets otherwise damaged, you lost your content.&nbsp; Unlike with digital content, you never had the opportunity to back it up to CD (why didn't you back up your hard drive regularly if it regularly crashed? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> ), and you couldn't simply re-download/access it as a subscriber to an online service could.&nbsp; It was gone and the only way to get it back was to buy it again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MoogleEmpMog, post: 3496252, member: 22882"] All the people - especially international customers - whose magazines have been delayed or NEVER delivered had a '404 error' for the print medium. And unlike web subscribers, who can just visit an hour or a day later and find the site in working order, some of these people ended up canceling, asking for their money back - or just soldiering on, having paid for something they never got. Shipping problems were a very big deal for Paizo a year or so ago. If you buy from your local store rather than subscribing, every time the store has ever been out of stock was a '404 error' for the print medium. Again, it was unlikely to be rectified in the next hour or even the next day. If the store didn't order more copies, it would NEVER be rectified, and you'd never have an opportunity to even SEE the magazine. If you lose your magazine, or your dog chews it up, or your cat throws up on the page you needed, or it gets otherwise damaged, you lost your content. Unlike with digital content, you never had the opportunity to back it up to CD (why didn't you back up your hard drive regularly if it regularly crashed? :confused: ), and you couldn't simply re-download/access it as a subscriber to an online service could. It was gone and the only way to get it back was to buy it again. [/QUOTE]

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