SUNDAY TIMES RIPOFF MERCHANTS - Page 2

BobHH · 25th September 2006, 04:19

And over half of that was probably advertisements.

USA Today is only good for free in hotels, and not much good at that. The best offering in a hotel I have seen is the Marriott Waikiki Beach, which has a free local paper and a free Wall Street Journal daily.

Newspapers vary a lot, but half the TV News I think they read in the morning paper.

Dawn HH · 1st October 2006, 19:02

I haven't bought or read a newspaper for many years. I usually get all of my news off of the TV and the radio and do that with a bit of a caviote anyways. When we were on our vacation, we received a free news paper each morning in our hotel. Didn't read them-just dropped them into the waste basket each day without opening them.
Cheers---

Dawn HH

Guy N. Heels · 13th October 2006, 08:48

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Originally Posted by dr1819

On Friday I purchased a copy of USA Today for $0.75, rather than the usual $0.50, and it contained a whopping 7 pieces of paper (14 pages).

THAT's a ripoff!

And what, exactly, were you expecting? In the first place, do you realize that some tree had to give it's ALL to produce that 14 page paper? And just how would you feel if some one cut you down and sold you for $0.75? Sheez, some people are hard to please.

Guy N. Heels · 13th October 2006, 08:50

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Originally Posted by Dawn HH

I haven't bought or read a newspaper for many years. I usually get all of my news off of the TV and the radio and do that with a bit of a caviote anyways. When we were on our vacation, we received a free news paper each morning in our hotel. Didn't read them-just dropped them into the waste basket each day without opening them.
Cheers---

Dawn HH

Well, I find that there is generally a little more to the news that what will fit on the average sound-byte or bumper sticker.

dr1819 · 22nd October 2006, 11:05

The paper my parents get takes about 2 hours to read, and is full of interesting articles.

I was thinking of moving there, just for the paper, but the problem is, by the time I'm finished reading it, it's usually around 9am, so I'd be late for work, and I've usually downed a fourth cup of coffee, so I'd be wired and irritable all day!

Guy N. Heels · 21st December 2006, 22:14

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Originally Posted by dr1819

The paper my parents get takes about 2 hours to read, and is full of interesting articles.

I was thinking of moving there, just for the paper, but the problem is, by the time I'm finished reading it, it's usually around 9am, so I'd be late for work, and I've usually downed a fourth cup of coffee, so I'd be wired and irritable all day!

With 4 cups of java, who wouldn't be "wired"? I guess you know yer easily talking about a quart!

For mine own part, I found it a lot easier to put a rack in my bathroom and keep the Sunday paper there for easy reading. After only one or 2 firing squads everybody has learned to keep the entire paper there.