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Outrageous! Guardian membership going up!

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Your new price will take effect at your next payment date, on or around 20 May 2023, and your new payment amount will be £7 - Monthly. You don't need to do anything, but if you wish to review your Membership in advance of this change please visit your account area.
Please note if you cancel you will not be able to rejoin the Guardian Members scheme, as it's now closed to new members.

Yours, outraged, of Tumbridge Wells


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 11:20 am
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£7? I thought it was £132 or 13.73.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 11:25 am
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Blimey, is the Guardian the reading person's Strava???


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 11:32 am
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Sounds like a lot. I've been paying about £50 a year. But I don't think I've had any info about changes?

Wanders off to check spam...


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 12:47 pm
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I've been paying £5 a month for years, no idea how long...

So £7 probably isn't that bad.

Yours, not quite so outraged, of Tumbridge Wells..


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 12:48 pm
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Sounds like a lot. I’ve been paying about £50 a year. But I don’t think I’ve had any info about changes?

Yeah, this


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 1:01 pm
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Opened thread expecting to be outraged,wasn't.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 1:16 pm
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Assuming digital subscription? In which case sounds cheap.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 1:21 pm
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Opened thread expecting to be outraged,wasn’t.

That's inflation for you...

Assuming digital subscription?

Yep, local Newsagent closed about 10 years ago, so can't get papers delivered daily now...


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 1:30 pm
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Just checked my CC card and I pay £11.99 a month - digital only. Going to have to return to the Sunday Sport.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 1:43 pm
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IIRC the amount is entirely voluntary and I think £5 was the suggested sum....


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 1:49 pm
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I read some stories, but I pay them nothing, though they like to remind me how many I've read.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 1:51 pm
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I bought paper copies for decades but once David Graeber showed that the Guardian printed more carp about Corbyn than any other paper I had to let them go, and the New Statesman for the same reason.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 2:37 pm
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Wish there was a digital mid week combined with a Saturday physical paper subscription combo offer. No time in my life to read more than one days worth a paper a week but a combo of a real paper to digest across Sat and Sun and a midweek digital scan would work for me. Maybe I should the printed Guardian Weekly a punt - I'm guessing it's their take on The Week or The Economist. Vaguely interested in the New European too.

Kind of like their general stance on subscription/contribution rather than it all going behind a paywall. Just not sure if it's long term sustainable. I gave mine up when I thought I was going to get furloughed and somehow never got around to starting it again, though admittedly my personal finances have taken a bit of a dip since then.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 2:44 pm
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I got in early on the digital subscription & continue to pay £3.99 every 6 months.
They tried to tempt me onto a new subscription model put I politely declined their offer.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 3:11 pm
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Has highlighted to me that I pay membership and subscription totalling about £20. I forget what membership is all about but think subscription should suffice.


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 3:36 pm
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Wish there was a digital mid week combined with a Saturday physical paper subscription combo offer. No time in my life to read more than one days worth a paper a week but a combo of a real paper to digest across Sat and Sun and a midweek digital scan would work for me.

Thats pretty much me. I only recently switched my subscription to digital from old school actual printed newspaper recently because I'm old and I fear change.

I still like to get the actual physical paper at the weekend when I've got a chance to flick through it. I particularly like to marvel at the 'Feast' food supplement that has never once printed a recipe I was remotely interested in eating, normally consisting of ingredients I've never heard of, but I'm sure appeals to the vegans of Islington who live next to a deli selling fairtrade, organic mungbean and unicorn tears puree


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 3:37 pm
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Can't you write to them and submit a Subway recipe you've enjoyed?


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 3:41 pm
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I just want them to have a nice pie recipe from time to time. Or just anything where the writer doesn't feel the need to tell you how this dish reminds them of something they ate when they were on a yoga retreat in Tibet


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 3:53 pm
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but I’m sure appeals to the vegans of Islington who live next to a deli selling fairtrade, organic mungbean and unicorn tears puree

Have you seen the price of Unicorn Tears post Brexit?

We've had to cut back significantly in Cambridge e.g. we no longer flush the toilet with them...


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 4:06 pm
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Only £7 - with their constant begging I was under the impression you had to hand over at least half your monthly salary to achieve full worthyness! 🙂


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 4:15 pm
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Cheers @IHN. I'll give that a go. I must have missed that buried in amongst all the edamame falafel with buruk and Ricotta fritters with hibiscus sugar and cajeta

I'm had a chicken, ham and leek pie filling slow cooking all afternoon. It smells lovely but Ottolenghi would no doubt faint in its uncouth presence


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 4:19 pm
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I was under the impression you had to hand over at least half your monthly salary to achieve full worthyness! subsidise Polly Toynbee's champagne socialist lifestyle

FIFW...


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 4:26 pm
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I got in early on the digital subscription & continue to pay £3.99 every 6 months.
They tried to tempt me onto a new subscription model put I politely declined their offer.

I was about to brag that I only pay £11.99 every 6 months - you go me beat!


 
Posted : 17/04/2023 5:01 pm

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