Magazine Rip Offs Revealed

I love style magazines so much I seriously don't know how many subsciptions to home decor, fashion and women's magazines I have. One thing I do know is that I have to pay attention to how I handle my subsciptions if I don't want to get ripped off. Some of the subscription renewals I get in the mail are pretty misleading. The wording makes it sound like I need to renew  my subsciption right now even though it doesn't expire for several months. Some promotional offers where they give me a chance to renew my subsciption and give a gift subscription are worded in a way that makes it look like I need to renew my subsciption, when in reality it's just a promotion. I think the biggest rip off I have come across was when I got a renewal notice for my Architectural Digest magazine at a "special rate" only to find out that the price for a new subscibtion is about $12.00 less than it for a renewal subscribtion for returning subscibers like me! I realized it would actually be cheaper to let my subscription expire and start over with a brand new subscription which is exactly what I plan on doing.  After all, 12 bucks is 12 bucks!