FAO: Zwolf

[ShockDiamonds]

You read BMW Car don't you? In electronic or print formats? The former is published, but I can't find the latter anywhere. Looks like a distribution prob. Normally get a copy in the post but nothing this month. Meant to call them but didn't get round to it...

[XB70]

Do you still have the S600 ShockDiamonds?

[ShockDiamonds]

Nah changed it at the start of this year for an E39 M5 then recently changed that for an E38 750i Sport Individual. But will probably change back in due course...

[ShockDiamonds]

Oh just a quick additional point to Zwolf.... I found the 'phone number of the chap that bought my first M5, and he aint selling. But thanks anyway...

[Zwolf]

I do, print format and it has got progressively harder to get hold of all year, used to be stocked quite freely in local newsagent, petrol station and Sainsbury's, but as of about four or five months ago, I've only found it on or within a couple of days of release at WH Smith, meaning a dedicated trip into town.

I was wondering if it's a ploy to get people resubscribing. I did, but then stopped and bought it on an ad hoc basis following a short browse, but Xmas pressie from my wife is next year's subscription when she gets around to it.

That way the magazines themselves will be cheaper, as will the lack of trips and parking charges. Whilst I'm demonstrably au fait with online media, I prefer such things in print.

[ShockDiamonds]

Zwolf said:

I do, print format and it has got progressively harder to get hold of all year, used to be stocked quite freely in local newsagent, petrol station and Sainsbury's, but as of about four or five months ago, I've only found it on or within a couple of days of release at WH Smith, meaning a dedicated trip into town.

I was wondering if it's a ploy to get people resubscribing. I did, but then stopped and bought it on an ad hoc basis following a short browse, but Xmas pressie from my wife is next year's subscription when she gets around to it.

That way the magazines themselves will be cheaper, as will the lack of trips and parking charges. Whilst I'm demonstrably au fait with online media, I prefer such things in print.

Yep same here when it comes to my magazines. Keep toying with the idea of subscribing in order to guarantee a copy even though am supposed to receive a free one from the publisher Hasn't materialised this month for whatever reason.

[Zwolf]

I'd also wondered if circulation had dropped, perhaps in light of many switching over to iPad format, so distribution costs had to drop for the fewer people dedicated to print, ergo fewer outlets.

[ShockDiamonds]

Yeah maybe. Found it in the end in a local independent newsagent, who claims can order it from there on an ongoing basis. So between him and Unity I should be able to find it.