Those who want a printed magazine surely can
figure out how to get one if the magazine is
delivered to your PC as a pdf. Hint: It's called a printer.
You could even print it reduced size if you want
or at least the article/s you are interested in
and even save money by printing in black and
white if the colour picture isn't of great interest to you.
As for keeping records of gliders having come up
for sale it's called "save page as" or some such
when you drop down the file menu in Windows.
There are heaps of free sites on the net where
you can advertise your glider for sale or see
what else is for sale. Tim Mara runs one at
wingsandwheels.com, Andrew Maddocks another(don't
know if that one is free) there is
www.segelflug.de , www.soaring cafe.com etc etc.
Printed classified ads are a thing of the past.
Ask the newspaper proprietors who have seen their ad income decline steeply.
It is 2011. Faced with a redo of the official
magazine an organisation in 2011 decides to keep
doing it the way it has been done since the 1950s
and we have a bunch of glider pilots exhibiting
the same failure of imagination and unwillingness
to try anything new or different. What is being
done right now in gliding clearly isn't working
and worldwide the sport is circling the drain.
I'm not terribly surprised but I find it sad.
Mike
At 09:21 AM 7/07/2011, you wrote:
I agree.
Another advantage is that keeping the magazine
means that you have a history of gliders that have come up for sale.
I have just put up an online ad (a beautiful
Libelle). The ad cost is more than $30 and it
will disappear in 30 days if I donât keep feeding it.
Bring âem back I say.
Richard Robinson
PS: This is not a free promo but you could go
GFA>Classifieds>single seaters and have a look.
PPS: Other wise I love the new mag. I hope they
will be keep up with the level of content.
From: <mailto:discusdri...@gmail.com>Bruce Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 10:22 PM
To:
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of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Gliding Australia!
Hi,
I might be a bit of a luddite, but I wish that
the new magazine format retained the
classifieds. I always turned to the classifieds
page first to see who was selling what, and to
dream....hence my confusion when I stated at the
back of the mag as usual, and got to the front
thinking that would be an unusual place to put
them, and then realised that they had been omitted.
On-line classifieds might be great for those who
are actually in the market, but for those that
are casually window shopping I reckon the
published version in the magazine is nice to
have. I have a full row of links on my browser
banner already, and the window shopping GFA
classifieds don't warrant inclusion.
Could it be argued that the price of on-line
advertising should be reduced as it does not
reach as broad a market? Potential buyers need
to make the effort to view it, whereas in the mag it is right there.
Plus, it's an easy way to fill a page. Moving to
a 2 monthly format probably won't reduce the need to chase content.
And yes, I have purchased items listed in the
classifieds in the past, including some impulse buys.
PS - Now the only advertising content is that
which is written as "for information" by agents.
This has been an abuse of privilege for many
years - not naming names, but this practice is
disgraceful. Newspapers charge money for that
kind of "free press". Plus there are laws
requiring it to be identified as an advertising
feature. We masses are being taken for fools,
not just for reading it - but for allowing the
free subsidy to continue. Don't ban it - but recoup a fee for the service.
Bring back the class (ifieds).
Bruce
On 3 July 2011 21:47, DMcD
<<mailto:slutsw...@gmail.com>slutsw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>it was legally necessary for GFA to have a
means of communicating with all members
I think if you talk to the editorial team from this current emanation,
there is no intention of filling the mag with this stuff. It is to be
communicated by the internet.
If we pay for Gliding Australia through our subs, and that and
advertising covers the expenses of production, then what's to lose by
giving the surplus copies away for free (in pdf form in the net)?
Sure, it would be nice to see RAA and HGFA pilots queuing up at the
newsagents to buy their copy but they are hardly likely to until they
see the quality etc.
D
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