roguevogue Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Did you spot it, boasting about it now they are.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveG Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Hehe excellent Nick!! Nige you need to write in complain on their vagueness and give them the exact no. of pages of adverts. Cheers Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Cheers Nick, blood pressure time, saw this too, reminded me of my e-mail to the editor of Land Rover Excuse of a magazine you mean this post : I wasted £3.65 today I feel, ............................on the August Issue of LRE. I sat on a train, and after 12 mins I had "Read it" (or read anything vaguely of interest.....) I sat on the train, and then had an idea.... I did an analysis of the whole magazine, Jeeeez, the number of pages of adds ! Anyway, I was so seriously fed up with this I have just sent this off to James Taylor Editor of LRE on the basis that if we / I / readers don't say whats wrong, then they will sit there slapping themselves on the backs thinking its a great "Job Done" So, Do you reckon I'll get any reply ? here's what I sent, ............... and yes I was reaaly hacked off as to just how C54p it was...... Dear Mr Taylor, LRE Magazine ……………..Do you think its value for Money ?…………… REALLY ?…………….. I stopped my subscription a while back, and today I bought a copy as I was going to be on a train for a good long while…………..thought it may have improved ?....... Nope, its got worse............... Time actually spent reading it …. ?….about 12 mins……..longer to do this Analysis : (each line is a page) August 2005 £3.65 Nothing of real interest, .................... lots of average articles............... .........just “padded†out to take up space ?......... 220 pages, (inc front & Rear Cover) 1.(Front Cover) – uninspiring photo – is that the best you can do .............for a COVER Shot ? 2.Advert 3.Advert 4 Contents Pages 5 (also page 5) Padding started ? 6 Who’s Who…. 7 Boring editorial… 8 Advert 9 Advert 10 Rather ‘Average LR’ article ….6 Pages !!!!!!!!! 11 As above 12 As above 13 As above 14 As above 15 As above 16 Advert 17 Advert 18 Advert 19 Advert 20 Advert 21 Advert 22 News & Info – Boring and Padding ? 23 News & Info – as above ? 24 Advert 25 Advert 26 Green Oval – Yawn 27 as above same 2 pages touch more padding ? 28 Advert 29 Advert 30 Reader Feedback – Yawn again….2 pages 31 2nd page – still yawning…. 32 Web Watch ? – is that the best you can extract ? 333 Advert 34 Advert 35 Advert 36 5 Page article on Discos (boring) 37 page 2 38 page 3 39 page 4 40 Page 5 – really simple surface stuff…… 41 Advert 42 Advert 43 On the wrong track ? 3 pages 44 boring 45 nothing worth reading 46 Advert 47 Advert 48 Advert 49 Roverphile – 5 pages of padding 50 page 2 51 page 3 52 page 4 53 Page 5 54 Advert 55 Advert 56 Advert 57 Advert 58 Advert 59 Advert 60 Advert 61 Advert 62 Advert 63 Advert 64 Advert 65 Advert 66 Advert 67 Advert 68 Driving the future 5 pages 69 but it all been done before 70 many times 71 and better 72 …..5th page of it…. 73 Advert 74 Advert 75 Advert 76 Punishing Quarry…4 pages 77 Interesting 78 but very surfacey 79 could be done much better 6/10 80 Advert 81 Advert 82 Advert 83 Advert 84 Advert 85 Advert 86 Advert 87 Advert 88 Dodgy Motor 4 pages 89 interesting 90 but a lot of 91 padding ? 92 Advert 93 Advert 94 Advert 95 Advert 96 Advert 97 Advert 98 Advert 99 Advert 100 Advert 101 Advert 102 Advert 103 Advert 104 Advert 105 Advert 106 Advert 107 Advert 108 Home workshop 4 pages 109 boring 110 read a Haynes 111 manual for this………. 112 Advert 113 Advert 114. Advert 115. Advert 116 2 PAGES !!!! on how to 117. replace a track rod ? – Jeeeez 118. Advert 119. Advert 120. 3 pages on replacing a steering box 121. use a Haynes manual 122. Jeeeeeeeeeeez again – hopeless 123. Advert 124. Advert 125. Advert 126. Advert 127. Advert 128. Home workshop again 129. 2 Pages – hardly riveting stuff 130. Advert 131. Advert 132. Advert 133. Advert 134. shock article 135. 2 pages about a LR that had wrong shocks fitted ????? 136. Advert 137. Advert 138. Advert 139 Advert 140. Advert 141. Advert 142. Advert 143. Barker View – Fair but nothing riveting 144. Club & Motorsport news… 145. Padded to make 2 pages 146. Advert 147. Advert 148. Advert 149. Advert 150. Clubs – 2 Pages ? 151. Padded again…. 152. Advert 153. Advert 154. Advert 155. Advert 156. Running Reports ? 157. 5 158. rather 159. boring 160. pages 161. Advert 162. Advert 163. Advert 164. Advert 165. Advert 166. Big Blue Meanie…. 167. 4 pages 168. nothing to 169. interesting really ? 170. Advert 171. Advert 172. Advert 173. Advert 174. Advert 175. Advert 176. Tooled Up 177. 4 pages from the ark 178. it would be ok 179. but there's nothing really good so far… 180. Advert 181. Advert 182. Advert 183. Advert 184. The lost tiger trial 5 pages 185. its 186. ok 187. but 188. standard stuff…………………. 189. Advert 190. Advert 191. Advert 192. Bi centennial LRs 193. just plain dull……… 194. Advert 195. Advert 196. Advert 197. Advert 198. Advert 199. Advert 200. Advert 201. Advert 202. Advert 203. Advert 204. Heritage 205. 2 pages on old brochures…..wow 206. Advert 207. Advert 208. Advert 209. Advert 210. Advert 211. Advert 212. Advert 213. Advert 214. Advert 215. Advert 216. Advert 217. Index (advert really) or just plain padding……….. 218. Hodder way ….its ok, but hardly worth the time to read… 219. Advert 220. Back page … Advert This really is awful..... pages and pages of Adverts, and the few articles in there are just plain boring, ...but I WANT TO BUY MAGAZINES TO READ LEARN AND BE IMPRESSED AND ENTERTAINED BY.... Take a look at the USA Magazines, run by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, ................ loads of detail, technical info, specials, modifications, upgrades (that doesn't mean bolting on a "Goodie"), and articles that take ages to read because they are well written, about interesting subjects that you just do not see elsewhere.... If you wonder why your sales are low or falling, perhaps the above lack of effort or "freshness" might just show why, .....this magazine is going to be bought by a new owner for a short time or a individual thinking about buying...not long term die hard enthusiasts who will take out subs and rush to get there copy of LRE to see what exciting innovative and interesting articles there are in it............ I will be very very careful about wasting my money on LRE again, ...............I'll see 1st if there is anything work buying it for.............. I don't expect to get a reply to this e-mail, as you will probably just laugh and bin it................. and I did get a reply, and I did offer the 90 as they were interested in an article, which I then told them to (as they had closed LRE Forum) that, in my opinion the best thing they could do was ** **** ********* and **** ** **************** *** ****** tonsil ******* ***** *** ***** **** ** gerbil on stilts. Kin junk UK 4x4 mags Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbocharger Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Ooh... you'd better be careful before the magazine pull this thread. Oh no, wait .. .they can't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 the issue pictured has 100 pages of adds again then a write up on a chav'd 50th a few stories about Billing what a load of crud! It arrived in the post free and after counting the adds pages left via the bin the same day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguevogue Posted September 10, 2005 Author Share Posted September 10, 2005 Thats the thread I had in mind Nigel. All the content not adverts is a repeat or rehash anyway, bloody rubbish. Didn't it used to be "By enthusiasts, for enthusiasts", more like "By hipocrites for advertisers" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Scrapiron Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 Hey, who's got time to count pages? Quit the wingeing boys. And look, I've never heard of the bloody mafia. I'm not a Godfather - got it? I'm an enthusiast. The Land Rover Enthusiast. Capiche? Now look at that issue - Mama, what a beautiful magazine. Scomparto bello!! Fifteen of those ad pages I had to do a favour for. And to get those ten pages of editorial that give Scrapiron products as best buys, I had to sleep with Ricky the Finger Green's wife. Merda, I had to wear a paper bag over my head....balena....boccalone! But boys, we all gotta live. You think I'm ricco sfondato? You think red paint is cheap? So shut it! Last customer who disagreed, I cut his tongue out and welded it to his NATO hook. If you wanna have a discussion, I'll send round a limo.... One way ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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