The Road Rat Magazine
Discussion
I’m not overly impressed by the writing, nor the research. I find it’s more fancy photos (that aren’t actually that good at showing off the subject) that are “artistic” for the sake of it.
I find it’s like one of those expensive coffee table books and I’ve never really gotten those either-here, look at some pictures of the stuff I’m “into”.
Sorry to be a bit down on it but if you’re expecting anything like the heyday of motoring journalism from the 70s through to the early 00s you’ll be a bit disappointed.
What was that pseudo architecture magazine that was about a few years ago in all the desperately cool places-paper or something like that it was called?
It’s like that for cars.
I find it’s like one of those expensive coffee table books and I’ve never really gotten those either-here, look at some pictures of the stuff I’m “into”.
Sorry to be a bit down on it but if you’re expecting anything like the heyday of motoring journalism from the 70s through to the early 00s you’ll be a bit disappointed.
What was that pseudo architecture magazine that was about a few years ago in all the desperately cool places-paper or something like that it was called?
It’s like that for cars.
bungle said:
They must be getting a lot of flak re the postage, I got this email last night:
What a strange thing to send out.Road Rat auto-email said:
You left your magazine behind
Hi,
We asked the folks who built our website to send you this e-mail because — or so it seems — you decided pretty late in the process not to buy The Road Rat.
This may be because you didn’t much care for our shipping rates. To be honest a few folks have questioned them out loud. I can only ask that you consider two points. The first is the sum its almost exactly what the Royal Mail in the UK charges us to ship 1.1 Kg/2.2lbs of printed paper across Europe, across the world even across the UK. It’s a good rate, courier services cost much more. The other associated costs we swallow.
As a tiny business we can’t afford to swallow any more and — personally speaking — I’d rather not increase the cost of the magazine and feign 'free-shipping’ because there is no such thing as free shipping. There’s a reason Jeff Bezos is as wealthy as he is.
Best. And thank you for your interest. Mikey, Editor.
Hi,
We asked the folks who built our website to send you this e-mail because — or so it seems — you decided pretty late in the process not to buy The Road Rat.
This may be because you didn’t much care for our shipping rates. To be honest a few folks have questioned them out loud. I can only ask that you consider two points. The first is the sum its almost exactly what the Royal Mail in the UK charges us to ship 1.1 Kg/2.2lbs of printed paper across Europe, across the world even across the UK. It’s a good rate, courier services cost much more. The other associated costs we swallow.
As a tiny business we can’t afford to swallow any more and — personally speaking — I’d rather not increase the cost of the magazine and feign 'free-shipping’ because there is no such thing as free shipping. There’s a reason Jeff Bezos is as wealthy as he is.
Best. And thank you for your interest. Mikey, Editor.
The_Doc said:
The writing is proper, thoughful, literature, and not just a lazy journo copying and pasting the press release from a manufacturer.
That’s where I would disagree, I think the actual content is poor. It may be written in flowery prose on heavy weight paper but the actual content itself is incredibly light.
It’s “Wallpaper” (the magazine title) for cars.
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