Cage, I agree with your point that there is no opt-out. However, there is still value. You are getting a magazine for a year (that most boys will want to subscirbe to anyhow). It's no different than when you sign up for a 5k race and the cost of signing up includes a tee shirt. Just bevcause I may not want the tee shirt, doesn't mean that the sign up fee didn't include value for the tee shirt.
Sorry, let's be clearer about our point.
The original poster attempted to extract the magazine value from the $125.00 application fee in order to state that the actual "tryout" price favorably compared to other clubs.
Our point was that the magazine subscription could have been valued at $0.01 or $124.99. Therefore, is the "real cost" of the tryout cost itself priced at $124.99 or $0.01?
Might be a silly point, but the real cost of the tryout is $125.00. Comparing components like the value of a magazine subscription seems significantly less important than looking at training time, practices, tournaments, and other value items associated with the full program.
