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[gandalf252002 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close gandalf252002]

Anybody here get this magazine and is it worth a subscription?

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Anybody here get this magazine and is it worth a subscription?

I have subscribed for many years and always enjoy it.
It is a perspective that is quite different then the highly knowledgeable owners you find here.
There are also very up to date articles written by people that have inside industry info (kinda like our own "Rikki") and the polar opposite - mom and pop trip reports.

As I said, I like it and read each issue cover to cover.
I am sure there are those here that are the exact polar opposite.

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

I subscribed for many years, and even wrote a couple of articles and submitted them. However, in the last couple of years I found that it was less and less useful to me, and I let my subscription lapse earlier this year.

[pranas Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pranas]

I stopped my subscription also. I found little useful information on it.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I subscribed in the 90's and still do. Good magazine, but any news is old just like any other specialty magazine. My subscription ends next year (I think) and I haven't decided whether to re-up or not.

[Carolinian Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Carolinian]

I have subscribed for years. It is a great magazine. The editors are not afraid to jump into fights to support timeshare owners. Some years ago they were instrumental in stirring things up to block the acquisition of II by RCI. More recently, they stirred up the fight to try to stop the sellout / ''settlement'' in the RCI class action lawsuit.

[Larry Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Larry]

I have subscribed for many years and always enjoy it.
It is a perspective that is quite different then the highly knowledgeable owners you find here.
There are also very up to date articles written by people that have inside industry info (kinda like our own "Rikki") and the polar opposite - mom and pop trip reports.

As I said, I like it and read each issue cover to cover.
I am sure there are those here that are the exact polar opposite.

I have also subscribed for many years and read it from cover to cover. Learned a lot during the first few years, but not so much lately. There are always a couple of articles on resorts that I have never been too that I am interested in and sometimes they have some good information about the resort and surrounding area.

I will definitely continue my subscription which runs out in a few more months.

[pkyorkbeach Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pkyorkbeach]

I have been getting it for over a year. I am newer at timesharing so the magazine is great for me....

[slip Contributor - Bronze Find all posts View Profile Close slip]

I've been getting it for a year now. They cover different resorts, that
has different information than a review. I'll keep subscribing.

[Dori Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dori]

I have been a subscriber for several years, and look forward to each edition. my only beef is that every time I submit a review (some are very detailed) online, it somehow gets lost or something. I don't get an extension to my membership, and have to resubmit.

Otherwise, I think it is a great publication. I have had several articles published over the years.

Dori

[gandalf252002 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close gandalf252002]

Thanks for the responses guys. I am still not sure if I can learn more from here and the other various websites or from this magazine. I may have to subscribe to it myself for a year to see.

It would be great if they had this at the local library.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I subscribed for many years, and even wrote a couple of articles and submitted them. However, in the last couple of years I found that it was less and less useful to me, and I let my subscription lapse earlier this year.

Same here . . . used to write articles for it. You got free issues for doing that.

Then Internet forum(s) came along.

How about the online version?

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

You can see the on-line version if you are a subscriber----talk about things that don't make sense.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I had some communications with Shep concerning some new stuff related to the classaction, post-settlement.

[swilshire Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close swilshire]

After several years of receiving the magazine, I didn't renew the last time it expired. While I enjoyed it for a few minutes when it arrived, there wasn't a lot of interest in it to me. I get all the best information in the online forums I read.

Sheila