Who is tempted by the AE stamp subscription?

No thanks. I'm never paying anyone to cancel a sub. I would rather pay a little more for what I know I want than pay less for what I may not want.

I was interested until I saw the price (which I thought was too high).  What made me run from the offer was the cancellation policy. No thanks!!

I adore Ali and her style of memory keeping, I really do...but this subscription thing of hers is really disappointing. That cancellation fee is ridiculous...seriously...why?? Why that kind of cancellation policy? I would totally pay $19.99 a month for her stamp but to commit to a whole year? That's a long time. The fact that SC is behind the scenes is disappointing too. I don't trust them. Doesn't Ali know how so many scrapbookers feel about them? We all know she read the 2peas message boards and surely she saw all the bad SC posts.....

So, do we think that her stamp sub and her other kit sub will be run the way SC runs their kit club? Create a frenzy, create a huge demand and never have enough product? I want to help support Ali and I also wish her the best but I have so many reservations...

I think the price and commitment are too high for something sight unseen, and the cancellation policy is just absurd. There are too many other great products out there to buy that don't have so many strings attached. I'd pass.

No. Way. $24.99 for 4x6 inches of stamps that will probably look like all of her other stamps (because they do look the same to me). I want my "story" to look like my story - not AE's.

I am a great fan of subscription boxes - for instance, I get the Pop Sugar Must Have box. You don't know what you are going to get month to month, but one thing you do know - the items will have a good value versus cost of box. I always price it out on Amazon and my box is routinely $125-plus for the monthly fee of 39.95. I also love SBR kit clubs - but again, I'm going to be about the value, not the "limited" fervor. I'm down to just getting the scrapbook.com monthly kit because you get a great value - this month it was $54 worth of stuff for $29.99. With products like Technique Tuesday stamps now showing up in my discount craft store, I am just not willing to pay for the whole exclusive thing. Ten to one I'm either going to get my hands on it some other way a whole lot cheaper or someone else is making the same exact thing or a reasonable facsimile.

And, can I say, I'm really over scrapbooking designers acting like they invented scrapbooking.  Telling your story isn't anything new, right? LOL  Oh, but you change "telling" to "crafting" and all of the sudden you can charge 24.99 for a couple of inches of stamps.  I don't mind some innovation, mind you, but it just comes off odd to me.

I just can't order anything until I see the stamp set and yes, I find the cancelation policy upsetting

Ali Edwards made a post on the Paperclipping forums that made it sound like each month, will basically be a 4x6 stamp set and a mini class including Videos and PDFs on using the stamp of the month to tell a story, in which case, I could justify the cost.

I'm not quite yet able to subscribe sight unseen though, I'm not a stamper, I do this as an artistic outlet, not for the storytelling and I'm a SC subscriber so I am already getting a stamp every month, so unless the stamp is something that would truly help me tell a story I feel is worth telling, I have to pass.

There's a lot of same-ness in stamping for me. I like Ali a lot and think she's a fantastic designer, but I'm tired of her handwriting and fear there's going to be a lot of that in the sub. I'd purchase some of the stamps if I liked them, but not sight unseen.

I would say because with a page kit club you make the layouts once with the stuff you get, put them in an album and call it good. You won't ever get that same collection of stuff again. A stamp is made to be used over and over and over again. At what point will it get old to stamp "BEST DAY EVER!" "love THIS!" or whatever once-hot-but-now-tired cliche on my pages repeatedly? It's just the nature of the product. There aren't too many stamps (other than maybe alphabets and number sets) that can be used repeatedly in a scrapbook without looking pretty much exactly the same, every time.

Now when you consider that you can go to a LSS or box store with a coupon (or when the stamps are on sale) and get a comparable decent sized clear stamp set for 30-40-50% off retail just about any day of the week without paying shipping, plus you can pick exactly what you like with no commitment to buy another thing ever, and it just makes the price way too high even with the added benefit of the online stuff.

For me it's a numbers game with kits. I get 20+ items in a monthly kit, including papers, embellies, stamps, etc. I'm sure to like at least a portion of those.  I will pay for someone to coordinate and source and secure a number of different items for me from a variety of manufacturers. This is the value that a kit club provides to me.


With a stamp sub there's only one item, and stamping tends to repeat. I do trust Ali as a designer, but as I would be annoyed if I received one product and didn't like it for $20. If I'm buying a single item I want to see it first.

Now that I've made peace with my anger I'm still agonizing. I've been an Ali Edwards follower for years, I even have some of the older books that she wrote and anytime Technique Tuesday had classes based on her layouts at CKC I was there.

As much as I hate the company that shall not be named, I'm thisclose to selling out and subscribing.

Thanks for that info- the price then makes more sense!  I'm still going to wait to see the stamp though.  I love the idea of her story kit- hopefully more info will be forthcoming soon