[modeleng] Re: Gossip
- From: "Ken Strauss" <ken.strauss@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:40:04 -0500
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> From: modeleng-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:modeleng-
> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Dayman
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:53 AM
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [modeleng] Re: Gossip
>
> "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.
>
I had access problems when the archive was first made available several
years ago. After my MEW renewal a few months ago I lost access (and it is
still not fixed). I agree about the website and Mr. Clarke did nothing to
soothe ruffled subscribers. It seems inconceivable that a British magazine
would choose a largely French speaking distributor for North America!
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