How much? (Toybox)

Member Name: LauraJane

Product:	Toybox
Date:	08/04/01 (30 review reads)
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Advantages: Keeps the kids occupied

Disadvantages: Too expensive

This is not really the right place to put this op. but I could not find a general site.
I would just like to say that the prices of teenage magazines these days are so expensive.

I was looking at the magazines for the first time in ages and I could not believe how expensive they are. A magazine for a teenager today costs between £1.60 and £2.50. These have the names Bliss, Sugar, Top of The Pops. They are all over £1.50. Even the prices of magazines for younger children are expensive for what they are. Most of them are over £1.00.

Women’s magazines are not really that cheap at 65p each but how can they charge at least double that for the children.

I remember when I was a teenager we read mags like Jackie. They were only about 20p. I think my mum’s women’s mags were around the same price.

Do the people that market these think that as children have more these days that they can charge what they like. Knowing that they will still sell. Someone is making a vast profit here.

If a company started to sell good quality children’s and teenagers magazines for a lot less, a more realistic price for the product, then I think it would do well. I am sure that there are plenty of mums out there who cannot afford the prices asked so their children go without.

If you have more than a couple of children how would you ever be able to buy them all a magazine at the same time. You would not receive any change out of £5.00!!
Why are they so expensive?

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