Buffalo News increasing the cost of their subscription to $28.99 per month

[RyanC883]

3 hours ago, Tom Donahoe, GM said:

 

I really do enjoy reading their sports coverage, but $28.99 per month? That's just nuts IMO. I was paying $13 per month and was debating it at that price.

 

Does that seem outrageous to anyone else? I don't have a lot to compare it to.

 

Meanwhile, new customers get $1 for 26 weeks then renews at $10.99 per month? WTH

 

the Wall Street Journal is $4 a month.  The Athletic is $1 a month if you hit both with promos.  Perhaps Buffalo News has a promo?

1 hour ago, Don Otreply said:

This righty here ^^^

 

. That and too many people want something for nothing…, if folk don’t in some fashion support local businesses, the all go away, be it the local true value hardware store, restaurants, newspapers, cleaners, etc etc, shop small when ever you can, it will help the town you live in, those folks are our neighbors. 👍

 

they should run ads like any other paper.  The people who work for large businesses are also neighbors.  

[Augie]

1 minute ago, RyanC883 said:

 

the Wall Street Journal is $4 a month.  The Athletic is $1 a month if you hit both with promos.  Perhaps Buffalo News has a promo?

 

Like, you can get the WSJ, The Athletic and TBN for $35/month? What an idea!  😋

[boater]

2 hours ago, Chaos said:

Lee Enterprises who owns 77 Daily Newspapers and has been in business since 1890, will be reaching out to you shortly to learn how to run newspapers.  Please be on standby for their call. 

Warren Buffett, one of the world's most successful and richest men, and former owner of the Buffalo News, is standing by for your call telling him he shouldn't have sold.

 

I would say Warrent Buffett's decision to sell a turd is better than Lee Enterprises buying decision.

 

Buffett fleeced a sucker.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

Just wait until you see the ticket and concessionaire prices at the new stadium.

[RiotAct]

3 hours ago, Wacka said:

Who still gets the newspaper? Dropped the daily when my mom's dementia got bad enough she couldn't read the paper. Kept Sundays  but stoped delivery when it went up to $3.00. Brother and I would split it but then stoped buying it when the Sunday went up to $4.00 and then $5.00 within months.

wait they want $5 now for the Subday edition?  lol

[PromoTheRobot]

3 hours ago, Wacka said:

Who still gets the newspaper? Dropped the daily when my mom's dementia got bad enough she couldn't read the paper. Kept Sundays  but stoped delivery when it went up to $3.00. Brother and I would split it but then stoped buying it when the Sunday went up to $4.00 and then $5.00 within months.

 

I get two local papers, plus I subscribe to two online world/national news outlets. Three before I dropped the BN.

56 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

I have a question, and maybe it’s been answered, but what does it cost if you pick one up….wherever you pick up a newspaper now. I see them in the grocery store sometimes.

 

I might look at a book store if I needed one? I don’t love it, but I get it. Paper died a while ago. I’m still a hard cover guy.  

 

A buck 25 or 50. Sunday papers are like $5.

[MarkyMannn]

1 hour ago, Old Coot said:

Print media is dying. I pay over &80 per month for my local paper. Is it worth it? No but old habits die 

Yeah my mother in law pays just about $1,000 a year for the printed BN

[PonyBoy]

2 hours ago, boater said:

I refuse to be a Buffalo News subscriber again.

 

I tried home delivery at their teaser rates. When the morning paper would arrive at 2 PM, if at all, I attempted to cancel. You have to navigate a complex phone tree and be willing to wait on hold for an hour to cancel. All by design of course. Even when you finally break through to a person, then you're subject to high-pressure sales tactics to stay.

 

Scoundrels.

Took me about an hour to cancel my $1 newbie subscription.

[Augie]

8 minutes ago, PonyBoy said:

Took me about an hour to cancel my $1 newbie subscription.

 

Have you ever had a better hour?   😋

 

I’m glad you passed the stress test. 

[PonyBoy]

1 hour ago, oldmanfan said:

Local newspapers should have laser focus on what is happening in their towns.  That is an invaluable service.  It is easy to get national news, but without a good local paper reporting in things like city council meetings, school board meetings and such citizens stay uninformed.  That’s not a good thing. 

 

I've been around the country a bit. Boise area Idaho now, a few local articles which they repeat for a few days. Mostly AP regurgitated bunk. 

 

We've traveled on our anniversary for decades, buy a local paper to get the vibe of where we stayed. It's been homogenized for years. 

The local reporting as we knew has been phased out a long time ago. Many of us on this board remember the awesome papers, columnists of the past.

It's a different era, be glad we lived it when we did.

7 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Have you ever had a better hour?   😋

 

I’m glad you passed the stress test. 

 Got paid actually, I was working, had them on speaker. Still want my dollar back 😃

[Einstein]

2 hours ago, Tom Donahoe, GM said:

Totally fine. But as a current customer it isn't worth 28.99, that's my point. Albert Einstein would have noticed this subtlety

 

It’s not worth it to me either. Just don’t B word when it’s gone completely.

2 hours ago, BUFFALOBART said:

...And pay CASH, for the service. Bank fees, for small businesses, are killing them. My local Wine Shop, (in tiny, Altamont, NY) pays over $1200/Mo., just for credit card transactions. - Doesn't sound like much, but this is a one room shop. They thank me, when I pay in cash.

 

You should tell your local wine shop to pass on the credit card cost to the consumer and offer a reduced rate for cash. Lots of businesses are doing it now. 

[BigDingus]

5 hours ago, Tom Donahoe, GM said:

Meanwhile, new customers get $1 for 26 weeks then renews at $10.99 per month? WTH

 

Is it an online subscription? Can't you just create a new email address & account to get that price? 

 

Or is this a physical newspaper subscription?

[Big Turk]

5 hours ago, Tom Donahoe, GM said:

 

I really do enjoy reading their sports coverage, but $28.99 per month? That's just nuts IMO. I was paying $13 per month and was debating it at that price.

 

Does that seem outrageous to anyone else? I don't have a lot to compare it to.

 

Meanwhile, new customers get $1 for 26 weeks then renews at $10.99 per month? WTH

 

Yeah it's crazy...they are gonna lose a ton of customers at that rate.

 

It probably isn't that much more to have the entire paper delivered to your house.

[T&C]

This place and others.. are a small cache of who really cares about this "situation". Not many give a ***** when whatever you want to read what goes on in Buffalo (local news sites) and dozens of other sites are just out there. It can't be that desperate. Dump it and take a look around.

 

 

[Marcus Aurelius]

Bring back the COURIER EXPRESS 

[Dablitzkrieg]

Imagine subscribing/paying for any news source

[The Frankish Reich]

4 hours ago, Aussie Joe said:

I quite enjoy reading the morning paper at the local cafe whilst having a coffee and breakfast  … 

 

I will miss it when it’s gone..

Agreed. I was an aging holdout, unfurling my newspaper at coffee shops for years while everyone else was asking “what’s the Wifi code.”  I finally gave in. Print is dead. 

[Gugny]

6 hours ago, Tom Donahoe, GM said:

 

I really do enjoy reading their sports coverage, but $28.99 per month? That's just nuts IMO. I was paying $13 per month and was debating it at that price.

 

Does that seem outrageous to anyone else? I don't have a lot to compare it to.

 

Meanwhile, new customers get $1 for 26 weeks then renews at $10.99 per month? WTH

Our local paper is going to print/deliver 3 days/week beginning next week. 
 

They tried to spin it as a bonus, since the paper will now be packed with more news/articles. 
 

Who wants two-three day old news?

 

On top of that, they are getting rid of their delivery people and the USPS will now deliver it with the mail. 
 

So now I can’t read the paper until after I get home from work. 

 

I emailed and asked if the subscription would go down. 
 

Hard no.

 

For those reasons … I’m out.  

[HardyBoy]

4 hours ago, Chaos said:

Lee Enterprises who owns 77 Daily Newspapers and has been in business since 1890, will be reaching out to you shortly to learn how to run newspapers.  Please be on standby for their call. 

 

Come on, they're buying the papers, saddling them with debt, liquidating the business and selling the super high value real-estate that a lot of these news papers had acquired in the heart of cities, then turning around and using the loses to offset their taxes on other investments...this isn't Hurst or Orson Well's character Citizen Cane or more recently Sinclair media consolidating local news to control messaging.

 

This is Bain Capital type private equity crap that is highly ethically questionable stuff...granted I don't think print papers were long for this world, but these companies buying newspapers are not trying to keep them going, for the most part. If I'm wrong and I misread stuff when I looked into this in the past, I'm happy to change my opinion, but there are real consequences in local government to not have reporters looking around at stuff to keep people honest.

[Beck Water]

6 hours ago, Tom Donahoe, GM said:

 

I really do enjoy reading their sports coverage, but $28.99 per month? That's just nuts IMO. I was paying $13 per month and was debating it at that price.

 

Does that seem outrageous to anyone else? I don't have a lot to compare it to.

 

Meanwhile, new customers get $1 for 26 weeks then renews at $10.99 per month? WTH

 

Yeah, I'm out of the area and don't have too much interest in much of the content now.  That's gonna lose me.