Learn English – What does “Five times over!” mean here

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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:

Here’s introducing iDiva: Five Magazines in One

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:

At an introductory price of Rs 5 per copy

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.

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