San Diego Reader

The WORST advertising you can do for your restaurant or business. They will not tell customers that owners have changed and no longer taking the coupons they sold under the old business. OVER charge. and there is so many more companies that will at least give you some of the coupon profit plus people seem to use them more than the reader.

These guys do it right! Thank you for inviting Tres taqueria cantina to the first annual tacotopia challenge this year as one of the top 30 taco shops in San Diego!
Professional and personal at the same time… The staff at the reader is really what sets this experience apart from other publications.

It’s free. You pick it up and look at it. Great reference for bands and shows, sometimes a good restaurant tip. It’s worth the price (free).

the worst thing in advertising you can do is to put your money to companies like reader or Get one free. it is so bad that they hiered bunch of bullies to give you hard time to advertise with them .we are so unhappy with this company we are surprise how a company like reader can stay in business. it is the waste of time and money putting ads in the paper printing in general and advertising in reader especially.
we put a complain about them with BBB which reads as follow.
We opened a new dental office on North Park area and looking to do some ads Mr. M Dickson came to our office and talked to us to run the ads after back and forth and rewriting the ads a couple of times he started to get very pushy and insisted that we have to go with his recommendation, we had no choice as he knows about ads and we don‘t know anything the ads went out and we got couple of calls but no costumer and not a single dime. we called him and he played all kind of games and he did not change the ads he ran the ads for few times and nothing i request for new rep. and after few weeks they introduced C. Guevara and she told us she is going to help us and for sure we will get some costumer, she also ran the ads and nothing at all she charged my card in advance for two weeks and we were very discouraged, we did not get a single patient. after a while they gave the file to another Rep. J. Milewski very rude and unprofessional started calling me and sending emails and treating us if we don‘t continue with them they are going to ruin our credit and taking us to court and sending us to collection. Now they gave the file to another Rep, K. Boyd he did not even review the file or anything he demand payment even though they charged me and did not run the ads. I will go to all social media and write a review about San Diego reader they are unfair they are not good at all and their ads don‘t work for sure.

The Reader is the best free publication in San Diego. It is about five times the size of its competitor City Beat, is much more attractive looking, and it gives comprehensive listings of upcoming events in San Diego as well as many coupon deals.
On the political side, it keeps people informed about local politics without being a sock puppet for extremists on either side of the political divide. Its owner is reputed to be conservative on some issues. That being said, I wrote a letter disagreeing with The Reader and they published it. I posted a comment disagreeing with City Beat and it was taken down the next day.

Where have my previous Unilocal on The Reader at their new location gone?
They were not bad Unilocal at all and me thinks that maybe they should have left them up since I will not be mincing words here.
Their Neighborhood News section used to be full of interesting, juicy stories on REAL NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS by REAL, LIVE NEIGHBORHOOD REPORTERS! But some power-​mad egomaniac editor has taken that section of the Reader and ruined it. In what can only be guessed as a cost-​cutting measure, now boring stories on school board machinations and dumb mutterings on useless drivel written, for the most part, BY THIS PSYCHO EDITOR using all kinds of pseudo names that are not his own. This is what’s known as FAKE REPORTING. Such a shame!
Also, when you win stuff from The Reader, they say they will send it out but never do. That means you gotta call them up and feel like you are bugging them. Jim Holman is wonderful and deserves better than what these blood-​sucking employees are doing to his good name.
The Reader earned 2 Unilocal Stars from me for just being around for so long and having some great music news and watchdog type reporters like former U/​T powerhouse Don Bauder.