Arbiter/Referee offer?

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

I got an email from a certain officiating magazine yesterday. It was supposedly offered to people who use the Arbiter assigning website. It offered the magazine for $20/yr.

1) What's the usual subscription for the magazine?

2) Anybody else use the Arbiter and get this email?

1) Usual subscription price, according to the website of a certain officiating magazine, is $44.95. I don't recall ever paying that much for it. But these days I get it as part of my NASO subscription, which is now about $1,239,483.12 / year. But it includes liability insurance which will come in handy the next time some idiot parent sues me for ruining little Johnny's chance for a full-ride D1 scholarship at that vitally important 3-4th grade "showcase" game. Or even the next time my offer of a Red Stripe beer is misunderstood.

2) Yeah, I got the email too.

[Nevadaref]

Anyone have a problem with the people who run the arbiter system using the personal information of officials on the system to market a product for another company through what has to be a corporate agreement?

If your association uses arbiter for assigning do you have to agree to receive these solicitations?

[BktBallRef]

I got it as well.

One of the things I don't like about Referee is that they offer a your intial subscription at a low $20-$30 rate then hit you for 44.95 to re-sub.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

One of the things I don't like about Referee is that they offer a your intial subscription at a low $20-$30 rate then hit you for 44.95 to re-sub.

That's true for 99% of all magazines.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

That's true for 99% of all magazines.

Concur. But, just let it lapse one month and they'll beg you to come back - and at a good rate!