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Getting the Sunday Inserts: How to buy in bulk?
October 16, 2009 at
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Well, I've just been on the phone with the local paper's circulation department, letting them know that this weekend I'm looking at purchasing 2 dozen papers and want to know if I can get an ongoing subscription discount if I have something like a dozen or so papers delivered every Sunday. After putting me on hold and talking with his manager, I was completely stonewalled - there are no discounts available, I'm SOL, and no they won't put me in touch with my local carrier to discuss one on one.
Annoying.
It seems to me that paying $1.50 per paper (PLUS TAX!!) is just silly when all I want is the inserts. It seems to me that the newspaper business is hurting enough that I should be able to get bulk discounts, but I've been smacked down.
For those of you who are buying 20, 30, 40 papers at a time, you're not really paying full price for these things, are you? I do realize that $1.50 is a small price to pay when you're using Qs worth hundreds, but still - paying full price for an in bulk item just seems silly.
Any tips for the newbs here on how to get a good price on these things? Where can I look for a source of either just the inserts (on Sunday - no mailing off for them), or for cheaper papers in bulk?
Annoying.
It seems to me that paying $1.50 per paper (PLUS TAX!!) is just silly when all I want is the inserts. It seems to me that the newspaper business is hurting enough that I should be able to get bulk discounts, but I've been smacked down.
For those of you who are buying 20, 30, 40 papers at a time, you're not really paying full price for these things, are you? I do realize that $1.50 is a small price to pay when you're using Qs worth hundreds, but still - paying full price for an in bulk item just seems silly.
Any tips for the newbs here on how to get a good price on these things? Where can I look for a source of either just the inserts (on Sunday - no mailing off for them), or for cheaper papers in bulk?
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Last Edited by AlanChiras
October 17, 2009
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The Miami Hearld has what is called the Early Sunday edition on Saturday for 50 cents with ALL the Sunday inserts!! It's great. Check to see if your paper does the same.
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If you talk to your local retailer about picking up the "guts" for a fraction of the cost; I would assume most of them will be willing to. As it is destined for the garbage anyway.
I have done many a times and still do it in the LIC area, especially when the P&G booklet comes out.
The Newsday and Dailynews are 1.25 each around here, usually carrying 2-3 inserts. I end paying 50 each just for the guts (whole newspaper minus the cover page)
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fitnessfan, we do have two free papers in the area. I'll check them out, but I have never seen inserts in them. We'll see how that goes!!
Thank you all for your help!
My SO also picks up 10+ copies of the weekly free Spanish newspapers here. They only contain SS and are a little shorter, but usually contain all the Qs I'm interested in. (And for awhile there they had a General Mills full insert every week. I just had a field day at Albertsons GM sale in conjunction with quadruple Qs.)
He'll also ocassionally get some inserts from his coworkers. Usually I just ask him to get extra P&Gs since most other Qs I can easily find.
They didn't even sell them until I told them that WM sold them for 99 each...I told the mgr he would sell a lot if he beat that price and sure enough, within a month they had them for 75.
Some people ruined it tho b/c of getting so many of them and they now limit you to 5 papers
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Annoying.
It seems to me that paying $1.50 per paper (PLUS TAX!!) is just silly when all I want is the inserts. It seems to me that the newspaper business is hurting enough that I should be able to get bulk discounts, but I've been smacked down.
For those of you who are buying 20, 30, 40 papers at a time, you're not really paying full price for these things, are you? I do realize that $1.50 is a small price to pay when you're using Qs worth hundreds, but still - paying full price for an in bulk item just seems silly.
Any tips for the newbs here on how to get a good price on these things? Where can I look for a source of either just the inserts (on Sunday - no mailing off for them), or for cheaper papers in bulk?
You know the GNR in our area (and I do mean OUR since we live in the same area LOL) sales for $1 at Walmart on Sundays (at least at my Walmart) where as the WSJ sales for $1.50. I do buy all of my papers. I really hate P&G week b/c I buy 20-25 papers
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