stupid local bookstore and their stupid rip off prices!

[sua_lay]

Okay, so I like to buy magazines, especially ones with pretty pictures of David Tennant. Like... Who wouldn't buy those shiny things with hot men in them?

Was at the local bookstore and went to see the magazine stand as usual and had to do a little (but hugely embarrassing) fangirlish squee dance when I saw that Starburst magazine had a Doctor Who special with David Tennant and John Simm on the cover.

Me: *happy dance happy dance*

People: OMG take that loony away!

Grabbed the magazine and almost rushed to the registers when I actually glanced at the price tag. £ 5.99. Yeah, reasonable. Checked what it costs on the other side of the pond, and it was $ 9.99. Yup, still sounds about right.

Then I looked at the local euro price tag slapped on the cover. Almost dropped the whole magazine. € 23.50.

Okay. *breathe* Okay.

Fucking soulless money grabbing bastards!!!1!1!

For those who have the luxury of ignoring people dealing with euros, let me just say that € 23.50 is actually £ 15.90 (and $ 31.60). I'm all for making money, but that's not making money! That's highway robbery! It's evil, stupid and do those idiots actually think anyone would be stupid enough to pay such a ridiculous amount of money for a sci-fi magazine?

Also, to put that in perspective, the cost for the magazine is about exactly one third of the amount of money I paid for my lovely bat'leth. Yeah, that huge Klingon sword made out of actual metal that weighs over 5 pounds. So... Twenty-three euros and fifty cents for a magazine? Not on your life! Not even with Tennant hotness! Well, if he'd been naked or they had special pics from the Doctor and Jack in bed photoshoot (hahaha in my dreams), then hell yeah...

But come on! Yeah, fangirls spend insane amounts of money on fandom junk, but this is just stupid!

After a moment of mocking laughter and growling, put the magazine back and continued shopping. Then when I came home, I went and ordered the magazine online. Bought a back issue with the one I saw at the store, and both magazines with shipping were still cheaper than the one I would have bought at the store.

Am now going to become a true hermit and shall only shop online again.

*lies*

/rant

Comments

[ainaria.livejournal.com]

Those bastards! :)

But yes, scifi mags here have always been ridicilously expensive. I remember back in the day when at the high of my Buffy and Angel obsession I had to buy every Dreamwatch magazine that had anything about either of those two shows and let me tell ya. There always was.
Anyway, the point is one mag costed *checks from old mag (I've saved them, shut up)* 48 marks! Which is actually lot less than what that freaking Starburst costs! Those mofos!
OMG! Seriously, OMFG, the value of money is totally different now than what it was then! OMG!

[sua-lay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there I was, holding that pretty magazine, staring into Tennant's eyes and wondering if I should just throw a tantrum or something. :D

But yeah, it's like they just change all the old price tags into euros and then lalalalala idiots will buy. As if. To think that 48 marks isn't even ten euros! Like... whoo!

OMG!

[oh and look at my pretty new icon! so cute!]

[ainaria.livejournal.com]

Hahahaaa! That shade of blonde isn't really his color though. :D

And all of those OMGs might seem like a bit overboard now, but yesterday I was actually shocked when I realized, like you said, back in the day the mags didn't even cost 10 euros. I thought that they had been expensive then. Boy was I wrong.

[sua-lay.livejournal.com]

I know I may be totally insane, but I would so shag him even if he were a blonde woman. :D

And no, no! The OMGs were just how I felt. Stupid fucking rip off! OMG!

:X

[jin-fenghuang.livejournal.com]

23.50?

Are they sniffing glue?

[sua-lay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, probably.

[mimm]

o_O You know there's something seriously wrong when you can buy the magazines from abroad and still, with postal, it's cheaper than buying one from a local bookstore. Wtf, people? Adding a bit of extra to cover the costs and then some is okay and what a business does, but that is just one major rip-off price right there. Who the hell in their right mind would ever pay something like that for a relatively regular mag? I mean, if it had a dvd and a poster in it, then sure, but otherwise... ha, dream on.

Like ladyria said, the pricey mags we got years back were nothing compared to what they are nowadays. Sheesh. FIM does not equal EUR. Get it to your thick brains, will ya? (A bit of a rant here, but well. I think it deserves one. ;))

[sua-lay.livejournal.com]

Yup. The insane part is that I bought two magazines from abroad, and with postage, they were still cheaper than that one magazine I woulda bought at the bookstore. Hah! Fuck you Akateeminen!

I do understand the change in the cost if it's a book and it has to be translated or something, but come on. Entertainment magazine! Even nerds like us aren't stupid enough to put that much money on stuff. Er... Well, we shouldn't be anyway!

[dixiebell12.livejournal.com]

I really shouldn't be promoting this but I do it all the time with Library books. If you have a digital camera with one of those (micro)buttons on it, just snap a picture, come home and you can load it straight to your computer. I keep patterns, houseplans, art projects, that sort of thing on my computer, just whip out the camera and click away. You would be surprised how well it works. I've never done it at a book store but before I'd pay 23 euros, well....


Hugs
Dixiebell

[sua-lay.livejournal.com]

Whoo! Actually, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Especially if there's like that one page article I want to read and then everything else is some weird crap about weird things. :D Not that I haven't bought stuff for one page articles before (and let's not even go to the old times when you had to buy a whole CD to get that one song)....