So Martha Stewart OmniMedia is shuttering Blueprint. You really had so much promise. All I know is from the very beginning I sent in more than one subscription card. I wanted to subscribe. Bad. And I never got anything back. Each month (ok really each every other month) I had to go to barns and noble or borders and pay full price for the mag. It wasn't really all that frustrating because I was already there probably, but those damn subscription cards floating to floor taunted me, mocked me as if I wasn't good enough for dear Martha's hipster mag gals. It was annoying. Every issue I picked up I sent in a card with the number of the request on it.
Finally the rates for the subscription went down online to match the cards (from $16.00 to $12.00 for the annual six issues) so I signed up online. I should have known something was up because it took a week to get confirmation of that transaction. Sad. I was going to wait until the begining of the year to charge my subscription. Glad that I did, because I would have been really annoyed should I have paid to now have to dicker about the remainder of the subscription. And don't you know that I got a bill in the mail the day after my online confirmation happened. Tacky. If they treated everyone that subscribed or wanted to subscribe it explains why their numbers were so sucky and they had to quit publishing the magazine. I don't suspect to know anything about publishing but I do know that Vanity Fair wants my money so bad they are willing to sell me a five year subscription which they "don't ever get a request for". Fine, here's my credit card... they have the staying power I think. My money is on Vanity Fair. And their website doesn't use flash which I can't access because my sucky IT department here at work doesn't let up upgrade bupkes on our systems. The IE on this system is so lame I get run time errors on everything and I can't update with out having IT come here to my desk, because they are completely retarded. Sorry I didn't mean to go there just now.
Anyways, I suppose I can thank those in the decision seat for saving me $12.00.
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