Grazia has my wrath at the moment, I don't like magazines that forget about their readers in Ireland. Given that we spend a small fortune on magazines over here and pay more then English readers do, thanks to tax.
So it does annoy me when a magazine set up offers, subscriptions and other things which are designed for their English readers and ignore their Irish counterparts. Currently Grazia are offering a Benefit facial set to every reader,
oh wait - that's every English reader - not the Irish, we don't deserve it! I also had a problem when I wanted to set up a Vogue subscription, which is where I ran into difficulties. It should have been around thirty - thirty five euro (converting sterling and postage details) but when we actually rang the company we were quoted €80. Yes somehow the subscription and taxes drove the amount up to €80. Lovely.
So that was that. But the Benefit/Grazia thing really annoyed me. I read a lot of magazine. I do mean a lot, and I hate the fact that they really don't cater for their Irish readers. It would take a few minutes per feature to add the euro price after the sterling in photoshoots. I mean, we have all the same stores bar one or two. But we get Topshop and H&M over here now, so what is the problem?
It really annoys me. Grrrr....not to mention the price difference between here and the UK. I don't know why we don't complain more about it, then I realised that I have cut a lot of magazines out of my daily/weekly/monthly routine and now read the bare essentials. So maybe thats my form of protest?
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