I came across a sentence while reading Newspaper and I'm wondering what does the sentence mean in this context. This news article completed with the sentence Five times over!
. What does it mean actually here?
Excerpt from the Newspaper:
Here’s introducing iDiva: Five
Magazines in One that packs in the
best of five of India’s top women’s
magazines in a single new weekly.
. . .
. . .
. . .
A magazine that gives you all this and
more should cost the earth, right?
Luckily this one doesn’t. At an
introductory price of Rs 5 per copy,
we are sure you’ll find it a steal.
Five times over!
Best Answer
The trick to understanding this advert comes at the beginning:
So the publisher is saying their magazine is the equivalent of five other magazines.
Also they are selling the first issue at a cut down introductory price:
So, in their mind, the magazine is cheap even compared to a normal magazine, but because it is five magazines in one, the cheapness is exaggerated by that multiple, so this deal is five times better than any normal discount on a magazine, i.e. five times over.