[modeleng] Re: Gossip
- From: Jeff Dayman <jeffdayman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:53:24 -0500
"I'm just bitter because, after exchanging several emails, she hasn't
managed
to restore my access to the MEW archive. The problem is somehow related to
living in Canada..."
Hi Ken,
I suspect it has far more to do with their website and web host company
being the worst pieces of crap online, rather than the fact that you live in
Canada. It is a shame, their is great content in the website, but the site
itself is of such low quality (for a publishing company, after all) it is
beyond belief.
I used to subscribe to the paper edition, but after getting totally pissed
off at the idiotic responses of David Clark to the ExpressMags North
American Distribution discussions in forum and in private, I quit. There
were a number of other Canadians upset at the same time, not sure whether
any of the others resolved their delivery issues. To their credit,
MyHobbyStore did send me copies of all 16 of the mags I paid for but never
got from ExpressMags. However to this day, Clark has never explained the
much higher subscription pricing for Canadians than for subscribers in other
countries or why no one at ExpressMags is accountable for missing and very
late mag delivery. By the way, when I had digital access during the
subscription period it worked about half the time. Sometimes I had no access
in the morning but it worked at night, other times no access for a week,
then it worked fine for a month.
One David Clark addition to the mag that I really hated was the "free gift"
thing when you subscribed. I kind of expected that these free gifts would
not be offered to non UK residents, OK fine, being Canadian I more or less
expected that of an offshore mag. But when lots of folks in UK started
complaining they weren't getting their gifts, and valuable mag and forum
space started to be used for apologies and explanations and discussions of
these missing/late free gifts, I was annoyed. I think he misread model
engineers in general to think that offering a bit of cheap tat workshop
equipment would win enough business to justify it, let alone not adding
staff to administer any complaints about missing items etc. The "free gift"
BS really took away some of the "class" or "cachet" of the 100 year old
Model Engineer for me, and put it closer to cheap "popular knitting" and
"house beauty" type mags.
JD
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Strauss" <ken.strauss@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:24 AM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: Gossip
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-
>> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Barrie Purslow
>> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:12 AM
>> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Gossip
>>
>> Ken,
>>
>> I have met Diane Carney many times trackside and have bought several
>> nameplates of her. She came to our club a couple of years ago and gave a
>> presentation on nameplates. She is a rather quiet unassuming kind of
>> person, not one to blow her own trumpet but clearly knowledgeable in our
>> field.
>> In her presentation she showed a picture of the vice she used to cut out
> the
>> etched name plates with a hack saw and then hand file and polish them to
>> size. The vice had seen more work than mine!
>> Her husband, Peter Walker, drives mainline steam, runs a 5" gauge LNER
>> Pacific and a full size steam wagon.
>> None of this guarantees that she will be a good editor of ME but I think
> we
>> should give the lady a chance - she can't be any worse than recent
>> appointees.
>>
>> Barrie
>
> I'm happy to give her a chance and I agree that she can't be much worse
> than
> the recently retired editor.
>
> I'm just bitter because, after exchanging several emails, she hasn't
> managed
> to restore my access to the MEW archive. The problem is somehow related to
> living in Canada...
>
>
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