Post by Calenture on Jun 6, 2010 8:09:56 GMT
As I was saying...
Thinking of Houses on the Borderland reminded me of my lapsed BFS sub, but what I ended up writing would have taken David Riley's Sendings thread hopelessly off course, so I've copied it here.
I wonder how much difference it would make to BFS membership if the yearly subscription of £30 (£45 for joint membership) was payable through direct debit?
If we consider how much is sent to members, I think it's pretty good value. Without looking very far here I've stacked up 12 volumes received during the one year that I was a member: Houses on the Borderland (ed. Sutton), H P Lovecraft in Britain (Stephen Jones), 4 copies of Prism, 4 of Dark Horizons, one New Horizons and A Dick and Jane Primer for Adults. So that's £2.50 a book inc. p+p.
Opening a copy of Dark Horizons at random, I see stories by Lovecraft, Sutton and Reggie Oliver - and Reggie Oliver's illustration for his own story makes me embarrassed by my own efforts! Not everything is that good of course, but it's still a pretty persuasive argument for joining. So why did I drop out? Simply, I had to prioritize when the subscription needed renewing, and the BFS came lower on the list than food and electric.
Meanwhile, my monthly payments to Sky keep going out automatically even though the small amount of TV that I actually watch is on Freeview... And I kept paying PC World's 'Tech Guys' for more than a year, even though they were never actually able to offer help with any of the problems we had with an Advent laptop.
Now if the BFS payments were automatic I'd still be a member. As it is, I keep thinking "Hang on, let's see how much I've got after getting petrol and ink" and, after that, "Maybe I'll leave rejoining till next month..."
Thinking of Houses on the Borderland reminded me of my lapsed BFS sub, but what I ended up writing would have taken David Riley's Sendings thread hopelessly off course, so I've copied it here.
I wonder how much difference it would make to BFS membership if the yearly subscription of £30 (£45 for joint membership) was payable through direct debit?
If we consider how much is sent to members, I think it's pretty good value. Without looking very far here I've stacked up 12 volumes received during the one year that I was a member: Houses on the Borderland (ed. Sutton), H P Lovecraft in Britain (Stephen Jones), 4 copies of Prism, 4 of Dark Horizons, one New Horizons and A Dick and Jane Primer for Adults. So that's £2.50 a book inc. p+p.
Opening a copy of Dark Horizons at random, I see stories by Lovecraft, Sutton and Reggie Oliver - and Reggie Oliver's illustration for his own story makes me embarrassed by my own efforts! Not everything is that good of course, but it's still a pretty persuasive argument for joining. So why did I drop out? Simply, I had to prioritize when the subscription needed renewing, and the BFS came lower on the list than food and electric.
Meanwhile, my monthly payments to Sky keep going out automatically even though the small amount of TV that I actually watch is on Freeview... And I kept paying PC World's 'Tech Guys' for more than a year, even though they were never actually able to offer help with any of the problems we had with an Advent laptop.
Now if the BFS payments were automatic I'd still be a member. As it is, I keep thinking "Hang on, let's see how much I've got after getting petrol and ink" and, after that, "Maybe I'll leave rejoining till next month..."
