Sunday, March 05, 2006

What Do You Need To Subscribe?

First of all, subscriptions listed on this blog are currently only available within the UK.

To receive your subscription, you will need a UK delivery address. It can be either your home address or workplace address. However, at times, your subscription may be rejected because of the address you use may be a communal address like a students halls of residence. Usually, such addresses are considered high risk addresses from a long history record of various residents and their dealings or maybe some other resident have requested for the same subscription. Publishers do limit the number of subscriptions they may send to a physical address to protect themselves as a cost cutting measure from sending duplicate subscriptions.

Usually, you will need a bank account that allows you to have direct debit facilities. By authorizing some company to direct debit your account is giving permission for the company to take an agreed sum periodically. Most publishers prefer this method as it cut costs on transaction fees and invoicing and it also saves time. Most common UK bank accounts offer such facilities. You must always ensure that you have enough money in your account for every debit or else the bank would charge you a hefty fee for failure to debit the required amount at the required time. If you have several bank accounts, it doesn’t matter which one you use as long as it is convenient for you to keep track on your payments. I would strongly suggest those that do not have online banking facilities to activate it. Activation is free and can be done at your local branches or through the online banking site. Online banking will make monitoring your account easier as it is accessible 24 hours.

That’s all you will usually need to register.

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