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I've bit my tongue long enough!
It looks like they may be hoping to replace the "old" Members Plus with the newer, Customer Index. This is all well and good if you know EXACTLY what you are looking for. BUT, SO many of our requests are for recipes that are lost due to loaning a magazine out, or just misplacing/loosing it...i.e. my DANG Soups book that finally turned up!
Then there are the members like Theresa, who joined this forum to get a recipe she tasted, searched out and got HOOKED. She came in to get a recipe for a subscription she didn't have...went on to get the subscription and bought several of the special publications as well. JUST LIKE MYSELF! To my knowledge, she has plans to buy the WHOLE SET as soon as her situation stabilizes...JUST LIKE ME!
When I first joined this forum, I searched the archives for all the available recipes posted. It took a long time. I thought, what a cool thing...I can hear about a recipe and request it and not have to buy it....but then I realized what a GREAT magazine this was! I had to have them all! Any TRUE “culinary artist”* that would want to visit this site, or take the time to search this site for old recipes would feel the same way. *(cook...I HAD to throw that in!)
I subscribed and began my slow process of owning the WHOLE “SET”! I am a second year subscriber, hosted a subscription for my daughter (which I hope to continue), now own MOST of the special publications and 3 of the "SETS"...with plans on buying the rest...access or not. I would have to have the publications as a testament to the “awesome-ness” of the recipes! That and all the helpful tips, pictures, and sides.
I think the availability of the Member's Plus is a good thing and hope you decide it is worth continuing. I for one would be glad to have access, even if there was an additional cost to my regular subscription. Having a computer generated cookbook that allows me to save recipes online, this would be worth an additional cost. HECK, to know that I would not have to TYPE all these things in would be a GREAT incentive to subscribe!
The great recipes, lack of ads, and pictures of all the dishes makes this the ULTIMATE magazine on the market! I recommend it to everyone I meet! I know there have been changes in the format and complaints, but I have faith that the FIRST and ONLY subscription I have ever purchased, will continue to “press” on and publish a magazine I have grown to love. (I have appreciated the “nods” to our suggestions.)
All of this is not to take away from the current problem with people who are a part of the Member's Plus and have used the cookbook saver feature. I was not even aware of this feature....thankfully! That's another “ball of wax”! THAT would have seriously PI** me off if I was victim to that loss without notice. I am hoping this situation will be soon corrected.
Daphne
Keep your mind wide open.
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Thanks for the help - I have the last 3 or 4 years of the magazine and several of the cookbooks so I will look for it again!