Times Subscription increases

Manxman1

Has any existing Times subscriber like me realised how significantly the price has moved over the past years?

I paid £3.00 a week in 2005/6, £3.25pw in 2006/7, £4 in 2007/8, £4.50 in 2008/9, £5 in 2009/10 and now it is increasing to £6! This represents a doubling in 5 years.

Appreciate it is still 25% cheaper than the cover price, but is this the biggest increase of any consumer item over this period? I assume I am subsidising the Times efforts to increase the number of their subscribers and to charge for their web site.

Sorry Mr Murdoch, I am cancelling. I will retain the Sunday Times only subscription (10% discount i.e. £1.80pw) as I would still buy this. You then retain access to their web site - that said, BBC/Sky news as as good, can't see why you'd pay separately just for the Times web.

ScarletBea

Gosh, that *is* a big increase!
I usually just buy mine on saturdays.
By the way, one question: if you subscribe to a sunday paper, how do you get it, given that there's no post on sundays??

Manxman1

You get a voucher, nice and easy

mr-mr_2

How do you just sub to the st?

DCFC79

Oh man, heaven forbid a newspaper has to increase its prices to pay the staff, overheads etc,