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W. Raider wrote:

I'd just like to mention a thought I just had. We subscribers are pre-paying for issues, we're buying the magazine sight-unseen. If that's not loyalty I dunno what is. We don't have -nor necessarily want- the luxury of looking at an issue either freed from the bag or at least it's cover through the bag before we pay for it as newsstand purchasers do.

Oh my god! That's such a new idea! Sub Script Shuns? I would have never thought of subcribing to a magazine like National Geographic or Time! Maybe I could subscirbe to my local newspaper and get it delivered everyday and give some pimple face teenager a job.

Maybe we could suggest this subscription idea to Sports Illustrated and they could make more money and give out football phones.

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"You have the right to free speech. As long as, you're not dumb enough to actually try it." -Know Your Rights -The Clash

Interestedly enough half of those who left found their news somewhere else and never renewed their subscriptions.

That's an excellent point. It takes a buisness a long time to build trust. Trust does not come with one or two transactions. Yet, it takes only one or two bad ones to potentially destroy trust.

Apple's "switch" from iTools to .Mac still leaves an unpleasant bitter flavor on the tongues of many. MA going sleeveless is a similar situation for some, dare I say many.

W. Raider

http://www.cockeyed.com/science/adverti … ising.html

I wonder how MA would stack up against other mags in terms of content/ad ratios.

W. Raider

MacAddict is not an inexpensive magazine.  For the money we pay, we should be entitled to a sleeve. 

There are other ways to save money:
   - Don't print the sleeve in full color
   - Use cheaper, thinner paper for the sleeve
 
First, they took away the cool jumbo, graphic ocons on the CD.  Then, they took away the pretty Downy scent of the magazine.  Then the cut back on the number of letters in the letter section.  Then they put that ugly, over-serious font on the cover (ariel italics, I think).  Now... no CD sleeve??

I have every issue of MacAddict since issue 1.  Any more cut backs and I'll...I'll....just be a less-happy subscriber.

  - MaxAddict

TO ALL PEOPLE WITH THE #1 ISSUE:
In the letters section of issue 1 (or 2?) there is a family, called the A. Roach family. Back when Apple was down on hard times, they offered $32.50 per person in their family, and reccommended other macaddicts to do the same, to cure apples gigantic debt. If these Mac-Addicts are willing to send thirty bucks to a company they love, and expect nothing in return, Then I can spend an extra 6 cents per issue.

     Alas, Apple returned their check.

     I did all this off memory as my first 24 issues were stolen, and the people I whooped ass upon weren't the right ones. Damn.

TO ALL PEOPLE WITH THE #1 ISSUE:
In the letters section of issue 1 (or 2?) there is a family, called the A. Roach family. Back when Apple was down on hard times, they offered $32.50 per person in their family, and reccommended other macaddicts to do the same, to cure apples gigantic debt. If these Mac-Addicts are willing to send thirty bucks to a company they love, and expect nothing in return, Then I can spend an extra 6 cents per issue.

     Alas, Apple returned their check.

     I did all this off memory as my first 24 issues were stolen, and the people I whooped ass upon weren't the right ones. Damn.

Yeah, that was in Issue 1.

Would love to get my hands on an issue 01 with the cd that would complete my collection.

Been a subcriber since issue 02 and love the mag. The cd is much more time saving than looking for the apps online.

My March issue came with no cd cover and I've had to request a replacement since the whole issue came damaged this time

The options I got were wait until March 1 to request the replacement as that was when it would be available to the replacement provider. Extend my subscription 1 month or go buy the magazine at the newsstand and extend the subscrpition for the lost issue.

My problem is that in any case accept the newstand option I have to wait up to 8 weeks for the mag.

I for 1 would be happy to pay a few dollars more for my subscription to receive my disks in a sleeve. Having to jump through hoops to request replacements at least twice and wait for weeks to get that replacement is annoying at best.

The cost of paying people to man the replacement lines respond to the requests and remail a replacement has to be more costly than sending the cd protected in a sleeve in the first place.

Since my first magazine arrived issue 02 I've only had to request 1 maybe 2 replacements. We'll see what happens now month by month.