cmeon--Ottobre FINALLY arrived

[justinlove]

Did your's ever come? The replacement they sent from Finland finally arrived (on Thursday I think). I wonder if the first one will ever make its way here? What a disaster...hopefully they will figure out another way to ship before fall!

[cmeon]

Yay for you!

They took a WEEK to get back to my email- ugh. I know I'm warped by the age of smartphones and the near instant availability of connections, but, a WEEK!?

But, she was very nice and apologetic and they're sending me another, too- it was supposed to go out yesterday, so maybe next week? I do feel bad for them! Trying to save money (and with that kind of increase in postage I understand) and they end up having to pay to ship them out all over again. I wonder what happened to the ones the publisher was supposed to ship- did anyone actually get them?

[Deleted]

I ordered from their etsy shop and got mine within a week.

And I am in loooooooove. I'm already planning to sew at least 5-10 items from them . . . eventually lol

[cmeon]

Is it your first, HaB? I love having a subscription- if you sign up for one, you get a free back copy (of one they have in stock, at least) and get free shipping on any others you want during your subscription year.

[Deleted]

I had a subscription for a year and ran out at the beginning of this year. I'm going issue by issue for now but I will renew when the budget allows.

I love ottobre oh so much.

[cmeon]

Hey, did you "cancel" your previous subscription? I just bought a new subscription back in early April (once I saw 3/2012 and wanted it and then last week they invoiced me for a renewal, saying I hadn't cancelled 6 weeks in advance of my previous year's end date. It's all worked out, but, if I hadn't WANTED to renew right then anyway, that would've made me mad. :-p

I think I may pick up all the back copies I want this year and go edition by edition next year (assuming I remember 6 weeks out to cancel- LOL). The free shipping of back-issues is the only benefit of subscription past the first year I can think of, and with the USD->EURO conversion so volatile, it might be cheaper to buy them one by one anyway!