Got a copy of Esquire in the mail yesterday, which was weird, since I hadn't subscribed. Turns out that Computer Shopper has ceased publication after the April edition and they are substituting 3 issues of Esquire for every remaining issue of CS. Talk about the end of an era! I remember when Computer Shopper was the locomotive pulling the Ziff-Davis gravy train. What could be better than a business model that has a magazine made up almost completely of paid advertisments? The internet giveth and the internet taketh away, I guess. R.I.P.

Ah...I loved that magazine too!
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Aw, that sucks! I remember the days when I'd tear through that magazine, watching the configuration I wanted drop in price month after month...

Now, of course, you can do it in realtime...

Ah, those old phonebook sized magalogs were the bomb....sadly, the last one I looked at was less than 1/4" thick...

I have never heard a word from them, i found out they ceased publication in a tech forum story. My sub was good till 2016 but like a good FW type it was all free. Does anyone have any contact info on the esquire switch ?...

Thanks fuzzymello, the stumbling block is always the "authorised agent", i have no idea who provided all those free subs for me.

Just like PC Magazine -- no more print version. No doubt PC World will fall at some point, too.

My PO used to make a special trip just to drop it off.

I remember those old, phone book-sized issues printed on cheap newsprint. I found a great deal on my old 486-based PC from there.

Computer Shopper was a great magazine, but it also taught me one of my first harsh lessons on buying PC's mailorder in the early 90's... Vendors that only accept COD *might* be shady...