[Sca-cooks] OT: Cooking Club of America

[Brandy Collins]

Been signed up for a month, gotten a few plastic
gadget thingies, recipe cards, cookbooks
If you sign up to be a tester, you're picked "at
random" to get something for free.  The testing
section in the back of the mag ranges from a plastic
cutting board to the turbo cooker (see infomercials ;)
Dana's right though, it is more of a magazine
subscription than a free-stuff club.
Breandewyn



--- Dana Huffman <letrada at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From what I could tell the year that I did this,
> basically
> they're selling a magazine subscription.  The
> magazine was
> average, and not too bad a deal unless they've
> raised their
> price since then.
>
> I never did get to the trying new products part
> because you
> have to send for the form to fill out to sign up for
> it,
> and the form to get the form wanted membership
> numbers and
> such that I never got around to putting together
> (partly
> because I wanted to wait until I moved and then
> couldn't
> find my paperwork and the little plastic card they
> sent --
> you need a number from the card AND from the sticker
> they
> send later).  Some of the products being tested were
> worth
> more than your membership fee, but mostly it was
> stuff like
> bowls and spice mixes.  Possibly on the form I never
> got
> around to ordering you can tell them if you don't
> want to
> mess around testing mixes, or whatever.  I suspect
> the
> hoop-jumping may be partly to weed out people that
> would
> forget to send their review forms back, but it would
> make
> sense to match people up with someting they'd use
> (not, of
> course, that that means they do it...)
>
> There were supposed to be deals on books and such
> but they
> stopped sending me stuff the first time I didn't
> want
> something and sent it back.
>
> I did get a cute set of "pinch"-"dash" measuring
> spoons and
> a rubber tube supposedly for peeling garlic out of
> it, and
> found an useful article in one of the magazines.  If
> I were
> a working mom I probably would have found the
> magazines
> more useful -- heavy on the budget, family,  and
> shortcut
> stuff, not a lot on cooking-for-one.  As I recall I
> paid
> $24 for a year and didn't feel cheated but didn't
> renew
> either.
>
> HTH
> Dana/Ximena
>
> --- Maggie MacDonald <maggie5 at cox.net> wrote:
> > Has anybody else received the mail propoganda
> about this
> > new thing?
> >
> > They're offering to give me a cutesy hand grater
> gizmo,
> > and give me the
> > chance to test new kitchen products, swap recipes,
> etc.
> >
> > Just what exactly are they? and is it worth the
> postage
> > involved?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Maggie
> >
>
>
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