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Magenta wrote: »

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STUMPYPUMPY, I must say that I really take offence with what you have said in your post.

I post the offers to be helpful to people who may be interested
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I am a human being and sometimes make mistakes as do you and everybody else.

You are obviously a person with no manners.:(:(

I'm sorry if you find me rude, but quite frankly, considering the fact that you had 2 posts to read - the very reasonable one by kathrynt and then the equally reasonable reply to that one by Upside Down Bear then chose to ignore that reply and send kathrynt off on a wild goose chase. I think my reply was quite restrained.

I just wish you would show a little more thought before you post. Everyone including me likes and appreciates genuine new offers posted to this thread but each post (including, by necessity, this one) bumps this thread, drawing it to the attention of people who just want to quickly see what new offers are available.

On more than one occasion I have gone to the Newsagent to pick up a magazine "freebie" for my OH based on your posts only to find afterwards that it was one she (or I) bought weeks ago. I used to think that was solely my fault - I can't tell one women's publication apart from another - but then, I became aware that the vast majority of the time it happened was when one of your posts is involved.

Everyone, as you say, makes mistakes, but the way to mitigate that is to do some little, simple things, that most people here do: There are only 50 posts since the beginning of May on this thread. Even if you are totally incapable of using the built in search, it takes only a minute to scan then to see if an offer has already been posted. The way that you post means that everyone else, multiply, has to scan back to see if it is something that has already been done. Is it really too much effort for you to do it, once? And what about proof reading what you have written, when it is worth posting? Do you realise that the post regarding the lipstick has a blocked link? And that it has been posted before? By you http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=61197769&postcount=1003

I don't have the inclination to go through all the other duplicates you have posted recently, and I don't want it imply that you only post duplicates, because you don't. But an awful lot of them are repeats. And I think that the post I first commented on explains why this is. You obviously make no effort at all to check to see if your posts are actually useful in any way or are just rehashes of other posts or wrong answers to questions that have already been resolved. I don't attribute this to malice or mischief on your part, but it does have the potential of leading people to ignore all your posts because of it making them miss out on the useful contributions you make. If no one ever makes you aware of that, you will never have the opportunity to realise that there may be a better and more helpful way of acting - or, totally ignore the advice and carry on as before. It is completely in your hands.

SP

sally06 wrote: »

Did they get back to you about this, kerry? I took out a new subscription to instyle a few months ago. I haven't received any of the free cover gifts! with previous subscriptions to instyle, i've always received the gifts! I think i'm not getting the gifts because they send me the travel size magazine, even though I asked for the full size magazine! I don't think I am going to bother with subscriptions any more. You do save on the mags, but some of the cover gifts i'm missing out on are worth a lot more than the magazine itself.

sorry for the delay in replying! they did email me back saying it is stated in the terms and conditions that they dont have to send out any free gifts and they can change it at any time. They said that the polish wasnt sent out due to restrictions with sending flammable items with royal mail but as a goodwill gesture they would send me one out, which they did.

seems as though they have stopped sending them out as i didnt receive the free gift with the magazine for this month :-( wont be resubbing once its over as im hating buying the magazine twice to get the free gift