A TASTE Of Great Receipe Books (Book Clubs in general)

Member Name: vassilis73

Product:	Book Clubs in general
Date:	21/11/03 (346 review reads)
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Advantages: Cheap,good service,great variety of recipe books

Disadvantages: None if you like recipe books

Do you like cooking? Do you want to please your guests with amazing foods? Do you want to be close to all the new books for cooking? If yes, this book club is for you!

What it is
It is a book club that sells books mainly for cooking. I joined that club on January because I like cooking and I always want to do adventurous things in the kitchen! That club is very helpful to me because it doesn?t mix other books in it so it?s easier for me to decide the book or books that I am going to order. Only books for cooking. They have great variety of books. The same books that are out in the market, here you will get them between £3 to £10. Most of the reductions though are about £5. This is not bad if you really want to buy that book.

How you Join
That?s the best part! You go to www.tasteonline.co.uk and request your introductory offer. The introductory offer is 4 books in £0.99(!) up to £2.50. You are giving your details and you don?t pay until the books have reached you and you are satisfied with them, which I find great. The books I order were :
1.How To Be A Domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson(that was for my wife)
2.Delia's How To Cook Volume 1
3.Forever Summer by Nigella Lawson
4.How to Eat by Nigella Lawson.

Also they sent me for free the book: Recipes for The Nation?s Favorite Food (Britain?s top 100 dishes) which was great.
(As I noticed at their website, the free book of the introductory offer this period is
The Naked Chef . Really great book.)
When the books arrived in perfect condition and in about 20 days, I really was happy for my decision to join this club.

What is the commitment?
They want in a year to buy 5 books. I like cookery books so for me it?s not difficult to buy these 5 books. I have checked for myself that their books are cheaper from the shops so I?m not seeing it as a burdensome ?task?.
If you are not going to buy anything in a year, they will charge you the
full price of the introductory offer. To make sure that you are going to buy something they have the Editors Choice to recommend to you. What is that? The Editor's Choice is one book or rarely more than one book, that the club?s editors recommend for their outstanding interest and superb value for money. You have to place an order, either for the Editor's Choice, or for a suitable alternative, before the "Decide by" date. This is shown on all invoices and statements that are sent out to you, as well as on the web site's home page. It?s by far more easier to do it online, as If you don?t like the book they suggest you just press a button and that?s it!

If they will not receive an order from you by the ?Decide by ?date shown, they will assume that you would like to receive the Editor's Choice and they will send it to you. I don?t really like that but I can cope with it as I have mention I like that kind of books.
The editor?s choice I have to admit that is not bad at all. Three months now the books that they have chosen are really good and interesting

How you can cancel your membership?
If you have fulfilled your commitment, you are entitled to cancel your membership. You can do this by writing, a month in advance, to the Customer Service department. But If you want to leave the club before completing your commitment, as I have mention previously, they have the right to charge the full price of the introductory parcel less any amount paid to date, in addition to any outstanding balance on the account you have.

How can you contact the club?
The best way for me is via internet. They have set an excellent site, very friendly for the user. If you wish to contact them through email, they promise that they will try to reply within one working day. Alternatively you can call the club directly on 0870 165 0253.

Other features of the club
The magazine they send every month is very informative and t
empting you to buy them all. Really good presentation.

They also send you a list of all the best sellers of the market in cheaper prices but I am not buying from them as I can find them cheaper on Amazon.

The Taste club has teamed up with Video Direct to offer members access to every Video and DVD on UK release and there is no postage and packing to pay. It?s not as cheap as the CD-wow but in their bargain section you can find DVDs from £7.

Also Taste has teamed up with Fonetastic Mobile for some brilliant mobile phone offers. The truth is that they are not making a member discount on the phones. They just re-direct you to fonetasticmobile.co.uk

Overall opinion
I recommend Taste club to all those that they don?t have cookery books or they want to start collecting all the new recipe books that are available in the market in really very nice prices. Ideal for those who start their own household now or in the near future and they can?t take with them the recipe books of their mothers.

Thanks for reading,
Vass

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