Magazines.com Review

Quick View

This site has been reliable for me on two occasions and, thus far, I am pleased with the service. Prices are generally good and subscriptions start quickly.

Full View

After my debacle with MagsForLess.com (see my review), I probably should have bypassed all subscription services and just subscribed straight through the publishers of the magazines I wanted but I had been getting email from Magazines.com and I wanted to buy my sister, my husband, and myself a couple magazine subscriptions and didn't have time to hunt down each one and order through the publishers. I had ordered through the site before but it was a long while ago and couldn't remember at that time if all went well so I went to check the site out. Magazines.com looked reliable. There was a phone number visible on the page and the prices were not too low to be true but were reasonable. I decided to roll the dice and get my subscriptions through the site.

We are all enjoying our subscriptions and everything went picture perfectly. I am not sure if that is the norm for this site but I couldn't have asked for anything else from a magazine subscription site.

About the Site

Many top names are represented and there are many lesser known hobby types on the site as well. When you click on a magazine to subscribe to, you will be offered several other choices of magazines that are similar in content. You can add those or ignore them. Add the mags you want to your cart and specify if the magazine is a gift or not so, later, you can have a gift card sent to the recipient. When you have finished shopping, go to the checkout. There you can pay by credit card or by phone, specify gift recipients addresses and emails, choose to send email notifications and/or postcard notifications and opt into the renewal gift service if you want. You will get a confirmation email and all recipients will get gift postcards notifying them that magazines are on the way. I got my postcards in a few days for my husband and myself and my sister got hers that a day or two later. The subscriptions I bought started within a month.

My Experience

I had no trouble finding what I wanted and no trouble with the checkout process. I had a $5.00 off my order promo code which was immediately taken and applied. I asked for postcards to be sent to my husband and sister and picked my design. I even asked for one to be sent to me for each magazine I ordered. I paid via credit card and received a confirmation email and was told the subscriptions would start within six to right weeks. I got my magazine in just two weeks and the others' came within four. The ending dates on the magazine address labels are correct and all seems fine. Everything went smoothly with my prior Magazines.com order and everything has gone smoothly with this one. I am confident that I will have no problems with my subscriptions but it is comforting to know there is a toll free number to call and reference numbers on the site to refer to if I run into a snag. I am a satisfied Magazines.com customer and will return to the site.

My Viewpoint

My experience at Magazines.com was uneventful and satisfying. I got what I wanted at a price I liked and everything went very smoothly. We all got our magazines within a short time and everything looks to be on track. As of now, six months into the subscriptions, I have nothing but praise for the site and am rating it 4 stars. Not all magazines are cheaper than ordering right from the publishers so I took a star off. Definitely, this site is a huge improvement over MagsForLess.com which is just a big scam. Low prices snare you in and you never see your magazines. Here, the prices are sane but you won't lose your sanity trying to get what you paid for so it really does balance out.