Paris Match

Customer Rating:
Summary: Paris Match subscription
Comment:
I subscribe to Paris Match through Amazon.com because it's a fast and reliable way to do it. The subscription is expensive, but I find it's worth it. It helps me keep my French current, something reading books and academic material does not do. It also gives me another viewpoint on world events. Some of the stories are extraordinary, even though lots of the material is on a par with "People" magazine.. but that can be fun, too.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Paris Match - the latest news and headlines
Comment: Paris Match is excellent reading "en français" if you wish to keep up both your French and the news, reviews, in depth articles, humor and photographs of the rich and famous, along with philosophical essays.
It is a very good read, and a clever way to improve one's vocabulary whilst being entertained.

Customer Rating:
Summary: It made my mom pretty happy!
Comment: I bought my mom a subscription to this magazine for her birthday this past year. She loved it!

If your mom does not speak french, there is a pretty good chance that your mom will not like this magazine as much as my mom does.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Extremely poor service
Comment: I purchased subscription on December 23, 2006. Trusted Amazon to deliver a good service. The estimate for delivery was 4-6 weeks. Now, it is March 7, 2007; the magazine has never arrived; the provider of subscriptions first kept promising "any week now" but now they say I wouldn't start my subscription until mid-April. No explanation why. Cannot cancel and get a refund of $150. Extremely disappointed. Should have ordered directly - another French weekly, subscribed directed from the publisher a month ago and already received two issues. I am not even sure at this point I would receive my paid subscription for Paris-Match. I contacted the publisher and they told me they provide US subscriptions through a completely different agent. So, Amazon, what do I do now about my subscription?

Customer Rating:
Summary: Paris Match and no show
Comment: AMAZON, DITCH THIS AGENT AND FIND ANOTHER.


I still believe the magazine is worth what I had originally written (see below). However, I have not received an issue since I'd scripted the laudatory comments. I have contacted Amazon, the agent, and now Amazon again. So, I, too, will not subscribe through this venue. I'm better off paying more at a bookstore and receiving the product.

If I wish to be current with all aspects of polemics in the world a propos to the French slant, Paris Match offers the best of all. Without subscribing to a special magazine for each (politics, arts, actualities, photjournalism, opinions and surveys), Paris Match offers all. As a teacher of French in a public high school, I find Paris Match a valuable teaching tool that engages the readers to pursue certain topics with more research.