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Grafik: now cheaper at Mag Nation!

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Grafik magazine

Having been around in one form or another since the mid-80s, London-based Grafik is undoubtedly one of the most authoritative and longest running UK design mags out there.

Covering a huge range of design from animation to annual reports, typography to photography and phrenology (okay, there’s minimal phrenology) and corporate identity and illustration, Grafik is a monthly paper-based ode to the very best in design from the UK and around the world.

And in the interests of making it more readily available to you, our loyal customer, we’ve  teamed up with Grafik to get you a great deal.

It’s pretty simple: Grafik RRPs in Australia for $32, but if you buy it exclusively at mag nation stores, you can now get it for $25*. And if that’s not enough you, download a voucher from Grafik’s site which will entitle you to a further $5 off the current issue.

And if you want to subscribe? These new low prices are also available on our website.

Never say we’re not good to you…

* Don’t fret, Kiwi friends! This same deal exists in our New Zealand stores, but the price has dropped from $NZD39.90 to $NZD32.00.

FOUNDER OF MAG NATION AVOIDS GOING TO JAIL

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

In a previous blog post, we mentioned our ridiculous Christmas subscription offers. One in particular has caused us some angst.

We put up the following offer:

The person who buys the most magazine subscriptions between the 20th of Nov and the 20th of Dec gets them all for free.

We also mentioned in that blog post that we had thrown in some terms and conditions to satisfy our “legal department”, which is me. People still mistake us for a large multi-national organisation, forgetting that mag nation is obstensibly run by two guys. We don’t have lawyers and accountants and other smart people to help us run our business. We make do with the four hands that we have. Between us, not each.

Luckily however we do have some friends. So Adrian, who is a lawyer, and a smart one at that, emailed me and told me that having read our terms and conditions, we were being a little naughty.

We said in relation to this offer that if two or more people had bought the same number of subscriptions, that we would choose one at random to win the prize. Bomp Bow (I have no clue how to spell that you lose noise, but you know what I mean). According to Adrian, this is a “lottery” as it has an element of chance involved. We therefore might need a licence to do this. And a different one for each State.

Screw that. I wouldn’t even know where to apply for one. Sooo – we are changing the terms and conditions. If two or more people buy the same number of subscriptions, then the winner for the purposes of this offer will be the one that purchased the first of their subscriptions before any of the others.

There you go. No ambiguity, chance or lottery in that. Bloody lawyers. Bloody government and need for stupid licences. Just impede honest retailers from having fun and putting up crazy offers. Thanks Adrian. You created lots of extra work for me when I doubt anyone would have even noticed. At least I won’t go to jail now.