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Racing Post Price Increase
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any affordability checks done?
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lol ...indeed . the very few times i buy the post ; long train journey , sick of looking at a phone screen . well the lady at the mcr station shop always looks at the screen after scanning it ,just thinking " it cant be that price for a paper surely " !!!!
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The RP first appeared in 1986 i believe. Pretty sure is was 25p a day at the time as i used to get it delivered on Fridays and Saturdays as it was not much dearer than most other newspapers. And now its going to be £5.70 ? That is a huge price increase in 40 years percentage wise.
Newsprint cost is usually cited as the main factor in price increases, but a paper like The Sun costs £1.20 on weekdays now whereas it was 18p back in 1986. A much smaller percentage rise over the same period. |
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I stopped taking an interest in it years ago. One of the reasons was the “continued on page,….” Sometimes one article was spread over three pages. Also, on-line you have access to lifetime form - horses and dogs. For free too.
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Correct Dixie. April 86 Craven Meeting . Picture of Sonic Lady on the front before her reappearance in the Nell Gwyn.
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Sporting Life, free, everything you need, anyone paying even a shilling for anything needs urgent medical attention
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Maybe everything you need but I like sales prices and pedigrees
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The SL is just FAB Deptford.
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Irish racing.com
Is the dogs B O L L O K S  |
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It is Lucky that will now be my go to just looked better that the SL no more RP for me it pigs you off when you click something and there is half a story I was every day then major meets and Saturdays then Sats last yesterday no more when i can have a pint + a bag of crisps instead and get change.
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RP colour cards when working properly are the best imo
but irish racing, SL, ATR, TF all fair alternatives depending on what you want |
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irish racing captcha requests really p1sses me off
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Bank of England inflation calculator -
25p in 1986 is 76p in Dec 2025 Newsprint hasn't increased that much ffs It's a complete ripoff now |
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Is it a bit like a builder putting in a very over-inflated price for a job in the hope of not getting the work? Do they want the hard paper demand to die off?
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barstool31 Jan 26 11:49
Probably the final straw for me. Add on 25p/day delivery and it will be a £185.20 in March. Not sure about going on line. Is it pretty much the same thing? Blimey barstool, no offence, but are you still stuck in 1982 or something!  |
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£1 a day Online compared to £5.70.
Hardly rocket science |
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And, it is the same for every page you open, which doesn’t sound like anything but keeping five dog track pages open together makes for a whole lot of fewer clicks.
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Pretty much stu and don't mind it at all.
Only got a mobile phone last year and it has not left the house yet, only got that because we got much cheaper deal than having a land line anymore. Always carry and try to pay with cash, not on any social media platforms except this forum. Not that tech savvy but my son helps on that side if needed. Probably a few more on here like me and the last of a dying I guess. Thanks for asking and good luck. |
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I must admit I was a bit of a luddite in terms of the phones too barstool - my missus basically forced me to get one!
But the internet has been part of my life a long time in contrast - I was just amazed anyone on here didn't use the racing post online. |
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Especially as we all use an online exchange here...
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the paper in front of you and online comparison is akin to mince and quorn.
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Good morning barstool
Other than the mobile which I’ve had since 1987 ,I’m very much the same,this is the only social media I go on,,use cash as often as possible thankfully I think the cashless bit has peaked,and need the kids to help me with all this tech even the tv sometimes. |
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Someone has to pay for Mottershead to go to Brazil to cover the Dettori saga
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Should be n coverage whatsoever of dettori
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Used to get post, life every day, handicap book , weekender every week, from all that to the sun on Saturdays and big race meetings , sun has all the colors for about £1,30 and interesting articles, use Irishracing.com which I find a bit more serious than the post, I won’t pay for the post as it’s no help at all, other than headlines and a few articles but they ruined it behind the pay wall, can get everything else on line free, the post lost a lot of income from the tipsters millions a year and it was always part of enjoining the paper seeing who tipped what, there own tippers which you now pay for are more journalists the pro tippers, it’s just sad really that it’s come to this, most can afford the post and I would pay it but nothing justifies the £5 plus charge everyday anymore
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Why complain then buy ?
Endless list of things i stopped buying because of the vomit price,this included….. |
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On Saturday ts put up 1 selection at Leopardstown, Today for the same card you have to pay another £5.20 for 4 selections.
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Endless list of things i stopped buying because of the vomit price,this included…..
But also obvious alternatives online...even more reason not to pay for it. |
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Aceform would have struggled to read Janet & John,stu.
Those who continue to purchase the paper do so out of habit |
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I have cancelled a few subscriptions due to high prices,racing channels and football,never to return,supposing i was as rich as the person who has won one thousand million…..
Principle in life…… |
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Just like chasing a two bit tradesmen……or walking past high food prices in the supermarkets….easy enough tbh….
Tell them to get lost….. |
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What I've done to alleviate the price increases over the last four years is to cut down on the days I buy the RP. I'm down to an average of four days. Always Saturday and big meetings Ascot/ Chelt/ York etc. If increased cost is the reason for price rises do they really need the amount of contributers/tipsters that are employed at present? Take Spotlight as an example, a couple of months ago over a period of eight days I counted 13 different names writing up the summary/selections presumably all being paid. I've since noticed even more names down as Spotlight in the pages. I don't see why some enterprising company can't produce a simple daily paper only giving the Cards/Colours/Form or perhaps it's me thats simple. Bookies could do it. At present AFAIK Betfred and Paddy Power will give you a print out of the days/tomorrows cards FOC just a simple stapled together booklet which has betting f/casts and is ok. As you may have gathered I don't follow tipsters but I have several that I avoid. Sorry for the rant.
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there is a solution to this problem
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20 years ago I spent a week counting up the tipsters in the RP (yes I was bored) and it came to 67 covering all sports. 30+ were tipping horses.
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Not everyone wants to take a chance on pinching the RP,Busy
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Loper. I can easily believe your numbers it's way too heavy with so called experts.
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People moan about poor posts on here, but at least it's all free to read - you have to pay to read rubbish tips in a paper!
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And, in the main, they are rubbish stu. Just copy fodder much of it.
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Tipsters, too many. But Spotlight writes the form summaries and the betting forecasts as well as the tips. You could imagine large parts of this could be automated but the old Raceform paper ended up like this and it did not really work. Obviously AI has come on since then but at this scale, it is probably cheaper to carry on.
Features and analysis. These have come on under the newish editor. It is noticeable in the forum there are more requests for articles to be pasted here. Critics tend to gloss over these. News. No comment. |
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Absolutely disgusting, every single year without fail Racing Post goes up massively above inflation. This is what happens when you have a monopoly.
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