This Months NAG

MooDy

MooDy

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So who bought a copy of NAG this month and what did you think about the Dirt 2 sand in the packaging?
 
I had quite a few complaints from customers who opened them and got sand on their floors.
Also a lot of questions along the lines of are these free as theve got dirt in them or people wondering if they are water damaged:confused:
Also I have a lot left over this month which is unusal.
 
I wonder if a lot of potential customers picked up the magazine, felt the sand and put the mag right back where they found it.
 
Okay...the sand was okay...but if got into the DVD cover and it clinged to the disc. BAD MOVE. Then they have this new excuse that they cannot do "spine" printing anymore because you're limited to the number of pages you can have in the magazine as opposed to this number stapling thing. It's total BS.

You can get MORE pages with spine printing. Look at Cosmopolitan and Men's Health...SPINE printing.

there is something fishy going on with the NAG. It's got LESS content in it and the reasons that are being given is dodgy at best.
 
I'm looking forward to double dvd's though.

I'm NOT looking forward to 9 Billion gigs of freaken japanese and or old game trailers though.
 
Neo said:
Okay...the sand was okay...but if got into the DVD cover and it clinged to the disc. BAD MOVE
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The discs are sealed in their own little sleeve - so I think they had that covered - and I havnt had anybody complaing that the discs were damaged by the sand but I see on some of the left over copies that the sand is starting to scratch the covers.
 
Neo said:
Okay...the sand was okay...but if got into the DVD cover and it clinged to the disc. BAD MOVE. Then they have this new excuse that they cannot do "spine" printing anymore because you're limited to the number of pages you can have in the magazine as opposed to this number stapling thing. It's total BS.

You can get MORE pages with spine printing. Look at Cosmopolitan and Men's Health...SPINE printing.

there is something fishy going on with the NAG. It's got LESS content in it and the reasons that are being given is dodgy at best.
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Spine binding is much more expensive. We're in a recession. That's all there is to it.

I think perhaps you've misunderstood Michael's explanation - the magazine couldn't have more than 100 pages because it would be too expensive to print. Hobbyist magazines like NAG don't have the same budgets as Cosmo and FHM.

Also, there are fewer pages mostly because there are fewer ads. The actual written content hasn't been reduced much (if) at all.
 
I thought it was a very dumb idea. For one it damaged the cover, making it full of little dents. It also could have potentially gotten into the dvd sleeve and scratched the dvd (luckily mine was okay). The marketing person clearly wasn't thinking past ''how cool would this be''. :/
 
I can't believe they actually put sand into the mag, I mean wtf? lol

@Azi - I read somewhere that NAG actually loose or break even on each mag they sell. Its the advertising that makes them their cash.
 
As someone who comes up with ad ideas for a living I officially declare this completely daft.

If I'd presented it to one of my superiors I'd have taken at least 30 lashes.
 
Grimspoon said:
@Azi - I read somewhere that NAG actually loose or break even on each mag they sell. Its the advertising that makes them their cash.
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That's true for every magazine.
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That. :P

And given the currenteconomicclimatelol, advertisers (especially the sort of advertisers in NAG - i.e. small independant businesses) aren't buying ad space. So the magazine has to cut costs somewhere. Bye bye spine.
 
Azimuth said:
That. :P

And given the currenteconomicclimatelol, advertisers (especially the sort of advertisers in NAG - i.e. small independant businesses) aren't buying ad space. So the magazine has to cut costs somewhere. Bye bye spine.
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Bu they can afford to fill each mag with sand? lol :p
 
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