Just got the last issue today. Great layout and articles. It's a shame...

Just got the Jan/Feb "Geico" issue of Powerboat yesterday. It was small, but I still liked it, and read through it in one sitting. Like many of you I was tricked by a buy 1 get 1 free bait and switch scam recently run by BONNIER Corp. I hope they realize readers of this website will report the BONNIER fraud at boat shows, other websites, dealerships, repair facilities, and whenever the topic comes up. I personally will not purchase any BONNIER product unless they send my money back or resume Powerboat. They supposedly will contunue existing subsciptions with "Boating" magazine, a cheesy ad rag hawking 18' Sea Rays, Four Winns, Rinkers and Trackers and is given away free for as long as you want it at the Houston boat show and I am sure at many others around the country. I for one am not interested in entry level four cylinder products and will either trash the magazine if it comes (like I had to do with my last "free" subscription) or mark return to sender.

what a bunch of schmukks :mad:

Individual subscription costs pay for slightly more than what the postage costs to get the magazine to you.

The real money in the paper magazines comes from the advertisers. I wonder how bad they got screwed, and where they will "transfer" their ads to. The boat manufacturers may fair a bit better as more folks in different demographics will get some views and then some clicks, maybe a sale or two. But parts houses are totally going to get screwed.

There has to be a lawyer that can get the ball rolling on a class action suit. I am not one of the sue happy folks out there, and I don't expect any money out of a class action suit. Hell I could care less if a lawyer got all of the awarded money. It is more of a principle. Bonnier is a company that deserves to be sued for pulling this bait and switch BS. I don't want "boating" magazine. As a matter of fact I will be marking each issue I receive as "return to sender" and giving it back to my delivery guy.

On another note, I did receive the last issue today. Should be able to read it front to back in about an hour.......

Yep, I got my last issue today as well. Too bad, I really enjoy this magazine. BTW, the first thing that fell out of it was a "DISCOUNT VOUCHER" offering a 50% off of newstand price savings. Fuc*ing ripoff artists................

If I could put the dough together, I would take that brand and rebuild it into something it and all of us deserve

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all mag subscriptions are a joke!
Family Handyman, and a couple others always want to 'renew' for better pricing and freebies.
Started looking into and tracking it the last year, less then 2 months after renewing they want me to renew again? WTF
All three I get are paid until next summer and they want to renew now to add on top.
They expect you to forget or 'think' its a good deal.
Hotboat used to do this years ago, and i dropped them because of it. PB did the same thing and I dropped them long ago. Caught them charging me three times for the same year subscription. Handyman is now cancelled due to the same practices :(
Sucks, but they are all crooks!! And I am in the printing industry that will not support this crap!

Sounds like mail fraud to me.