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Stapled in bits - Why?! (May 2006)

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JV
James Vertigan Founding member
Why do the Radio Times insist on stapling in these silly inserts every week? I mean this week it's an advert, last week it was a Doctor Who Sticker album, and in previous weeks it's been things like holiday offers.

Can they not take a hint from other magazines and put the magazine in a plastic wrapper when there's something free inside it?

I know this might increase costs, but at least it'll mean that people are less prone to stab themselves when attempting to flatten the staples, and it would also prevent the magazine from falling apart when in an attempt to pull out the insert you loosen the staples too much!

Please, Radio Times, sort it out!
SA
saturdaymorning
I hate it when magazines are wrapped up though.When i want to look through a magazine in a shop and it's wrapped up i cant!
DO
doctorvee
Maybe it's because they don't want you to read it without paying. Rolling Eyes
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A former member
saturdaymorning posted:
I hate it when magazines are wrapped up though.When i want to look through a magazine in a shop and it's wrapped up i cant!


That's the whole point silly. You have to buy it to read it.
SA
saturdaymorning
I'm sorry.I'm not a criminal.My mum or dad go and buy things and i look at the magazines.I AM NOT A SHOPLIFTER!
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A former member
saturdaymorning posted:
I'm sorry.I'm not a criminal.My mum or dad go and buy things and i look at the magazines.I AM NOT A SHOPLIFTER!


Don't do it again, or you'll get 10 years if found guilty.
DJ
DJGM
Joe Havard posted:

saturdaymorning posted:

I'm sorry.I'm not a criminal.My mum or dad go and buy things and i look at the magazines.I AM NOT A SHOPLIFTER!


Don't do it again, or you'll get 10 years if found guilty.


I doubt that'll happen anytime soon ... I'm guessing saturdaymorning's somewhat too young to be arrested!
SA
saturdaymorning
I'm 13.I look through the magazines then put it back when we go.Now no more insults please.
PE
Pete Founding member
even if someone had accused you of being a shoplifter - which they didn;t - , it's far less worse than being a vandal and cat muderer as someone is on here....
SA
saturdaymorning
Joe Harvard did!
JV
James Vertigan Founding member
If you're going to accuse anyone, at least spell their name right! Laughing

Now get back on topic!
ST
Stuart
Radio Times are notorious for their pointless inserts though, and by the time you have extracted them, there seems to be hardly anything left of the actual magazine, and certainly not worth the money you paid for it!

The Sky magazine is just as bad, but at least that's free and comes in a plastic bag......but by the time you have disposed of all the leaflets trying to entice you to re-mortgage your soul there isn't much left of any use Laughing Laughing Shocked

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