Today you can sign up for the monthly Current Blackjack News for $12.25 per quarter or $49 per year. Tomorrow the prices will jump to $25 per quarter or $79 per year.
Single-issue prices also are going up. If you want the March issue you can order it today for $10 or wait until tomorrow and pay $12. The March issue will be published on Sunday, 3 March.
To order, click on Online Catalog at the top of the left frame.
Stanford Wong
I don't even know where I am on my subscription - quarter, annual? If the latter, can we extend for the $79 per year?
Neko
raising the price of CBJN will increase activity on Trackjack.com?
Just curious,
MF
I don't even know where I am on my subscription - quarter, annual? If the latter, can we extend for the $79 per year?
Probably you are quarterly -- most people are. You can extend your subscription today if you want, to take advantage of today's price.
You can switch to annual if you want.
Stanford Wong
raising the price of CBJN will increase activity on Trackjack.com?
I think the future of Trackjack depends more on its ability to keep up with changes in rules and playing conditions than on the price of CBJN.
What raising the price on CBJN will do is allow us to hire an editor for it, and to pay for news from some cities that currently do not have paid reporters. Hiring an editor is important if CBJN is to survive after I no longer am willing or able to edit it myself. Paying for news is the time-tested way to get news, so the quality of CBJN should increase after the price increase.
Stanford Wong
I was just wondering if someone could give me a current feeling on subscribing to CBJ21 or BJ Forum. I am unsure of what service to use. I am mainly interested in being able to get info on the preferred games availible to a counter. I play 4 times a year in vegas and i love to keep up on conditions. I am still a beginner and I can use all the help I can find. So could someone answer this for me. I would like to subscribe today to get the best deal. Thanks
Go to the link below. There you will find a detailed description as well as a sample issue that you can download. The sample is a regular issue of CBJN, except that it is several months old.
CBJN lists nearly every casino in the USA, and includes rules, number of tables, table minimums and maximums, number of decks used, and typical penetration levels.
I would not dream of leaving on a Las Vegas trip (or Reno, Tunica, Biloxi, etc) without the latest issue in hand, and the majority of players I know feel the same way.
In addition, a subscription also gets you access to the CBJN website, where changes and corrections are noted.
Disclaimer: I am the San Diego area reporter for CBJN.
Thanks I ordered cbj21. My only worry was that I used to have a subscription to the rge forum but i found that every three months was not accurate enough to plan a vegas trip. Now with this generation of emediate communication via the computer I now can get quick info. I take my lap top with me to access!
at the $10 price?
CBJN lists too many casinos from all over. What if I only want the current conditions in Vegas or Reno for example. Ever thought of publishing short, targeted versions of CBJN?
RN
It is 12:11 AM Friday. I just got home and read your announcement of the price increase. Went to the order site to order a year subscription and it was already up to $79!
I honestly don't think that 12 hours notice of an increase of that magnitude is fair, nor do I think it is treating very well the loyal customers who make this site work (and profitable).
Can you work something out for those of us who just happened to not be at their computers every hour of the day (at least today!).
Thanks.
CBJN lists too many casinos from all over. What if I only want the current conditions in Vegas or Reno for example. Ever thought of publishing short, targeted versions of CBJN?
Targeted versions require more work. We can offer the total package cheaper than targeted versions. If you want only Vegas or Reno, we could do it for you but we'd have to charge you more than if you simply take the same version we send to everyone else. Would you be willing to pay more to get just the part of the newsletter you want?
Stanford Wong
Don't you think?
Subsribers had a month's notice. But we did not use the price increase as a marketing tool, except that it was mentioned for the month of February in the writeup of CBJN that you see when you click on the Subscriptions link in left frame.
Stanford Wong
the most effective way was to post the info as you did yesterday. But only a few hours before the deadline.
I still think you owe your loyal customers more consideration and more of a break. Maybe, again for existing customers only, a couple more days grace period, considering the word obviously did not get out, even with the note in the newslatter.
What newsletter?
SW, if it's so cheap to offer the full info, then why increase the cost?
If all I care about is the Vegas conditions, why should my membership fees pay some slumball in Mississippi?
Perhaps you should ask your subscribers which reports are the most important/useful? Then you could decide which reports are most financally viable.
BTW, am I grandfathered cost-wise having subscribed prior to the price increase?
Jay
SW, if it�s so cheap to offer the full info, then why increase the cost?
It's cheaper to offer only one version of the newsletter than to offer multiple versions of the newsletter. That fact is independent of the cost of offering one version.
If all I care about is the Vegas conditions, why should my membership fees pay some slumball in Mississippi?
No part of your membership fee goes to any slumball in Mississippi.
Perhaps you should ask your subscribers which reports are the most important/useful? Then you could decide which reports are most financally viable.
We try to balance the expense (time and money) of gathering information with the market for that information. For example, more than half of the money we pay reporters goes to the five who cover Las Vegas.
BTW, am I grandfathered cost-wise having subscribed prior to the price increase?
You will not be subjected to the new price until renewal time rolls along. You will receive all issues that you already have paid for at the previous price.
Stanford Wong
And thanks for having CBJN in the first place. Despite the unfortunate price increase, it is still a publication offering one-stop info unavailable elsewhere.
Jay
