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Ron Mahoney · 17th April 2007, 20:35

Wow!!!

I know how Alfred The Great felt - you spend your life defending the realm, developing an education system putting in place the country's first legal system and all you get remembered for is you forgot to watch some friggin' cakes!

Seriously though to make a responce to a couple of points - first we've not got the first issue uploaded yet. It's at the PDF stage and now they turn it into the animated version - don't ask me how! As you'll see shortly a few of the advertisers are quite excited by the new format and rather than just run their normal advert they've wanted to jazz things up a little.

With regard to not answering e.mail or the telephone - I don't know if this is the done thing and I'm sure I'll be told if it isn't but anyone with any problems can speak to me directly on +44 (0) 7745 914 255.

I pay for a serviced office in Liverpool that should either take a message or pass you through to the office where if I'm not in you either get the answerphone or go back to the switchboard if its full/in use. If you leave a message I will get back to you but once again I've now listed a number you can always (virtually) get me on.

As far as 990 - well I think a few others have described in their own words what went on - if any of you are out of pocket by £18 or more then please let me know where Don McGregor lives and I'll try and get your money after Tony Perrin and I recoup the £45K that was awarded us in court.

When BTB was set up we offered anyone that got in touch to switch their subscription - we didn't need to but we did. Don't ask me how many got in touch but I know there were quite a few - judging by the numbers I spoke to at various dive shows.

I've also gone on various forums stating that if you think you missed out then send me an addressed A4 envelope with how many magazines you think you missed out on and I'd make them up with BTB back issues. This was (and still is) a TRUST thing as the 990 databases ended up in Fort William, but if you tell me you missed out on X copies then I'll believe you. So Matt and anyone else - pick up the phone.

As far as advertiser paid for magazines - I think you'll find every magazine (certainly diving ones) are reliant on advertisers money - to me it makes no odd's. Your subscription payments and magazine sales counted for about 18% of revenue.

So if you think that we'll be running adverts for and giving gushing reports on crap manufacturers gear well I think our track record speaks for itself - and yes it would be very easy to flood the magazine with crap equipment, crap dive centres and full of holiday dive destinations - but if thats what you want you know where to get it.

Lets see what the future holds eh?

Ron

17th April 2007, 20:35	#35 (permalink)
Ron Mahoney New Member Current Rebreather/s: Dolphin Other Rebreather/s: Dolphin Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UK Posts: 23	Re: Beyond The Blue - Important Announcement Wow!!! I know how Alfred The Great felt - you spend your life defending the realm, developing an education system putting in place the country's first legal system and all you get remembered for is you forgot to watch some friggin' cakes! Seriously though to make a responce to a couple of points - first we've not got the first issue uploaded yet. It's at the PDF stage and now they turn it into the animated version - don't ask me how! As you'll see shortly a few of the advertisers are quite excited by the new format and rather than just run their normal advert they've wanted to jazz things up a little. With regard to not answering e.mail or the telephone - I don't know if this is the done thing and I'm sure I'll be told if it isn't but anyone with any problems can speak to me directly on +44 (0) 7745 914 255. I pay for a serviced office in Liverpool that should either take a message or pass you through to the office where if I'm not in you either get the answerphone or go back to the switchboard if its full/in use. If you leave a message I will get back to you but once again I've now listed a number you can always (virtually) get me on. As far as 990 - well I think a few others have described in their own words what went on - if any of you are out of pocket by £18 or more then please let me know where Don McGregor lives and I'll try and get your money after Tony Perrin and I recoup the £45K that was awarded us in court. When BTB was set up we offered anyone that got in touch to switch their subscription - we didn't need to but we did. Don't ask me how many got in touch but I know there were quite a few - judging by the numbers I spoke to at various dive shows. I've also gone on various forums stating that if you think you missed out then send me an addressed A4 envelope with how many magazines you think you missed out on and I'd make them up with BTB back issues. This was (and still is) a TRUST thing as the 990 databases ended up in Fort William, but if you tell me you missed out on X copies then I'll believe you. So Matt and anyone else - pick up the phone. As far as advertiser paid for magazines - I think you'll find every magazine (certainly diving ones) are reliant on advertisers money - to me it makes no odd's. Your subscription payments and magazine sales counted for about 18% of revenue. So if you think that we'll be running adverts for and giving gushing reports on crap manufacturers gear well I think our track record speaks for itself - and yes it would be very easy to flood the magazine with crap equipment, crap dive centres and full of holiday dive destinations - but if thats what you want you know where to get it. Lets see what the future holds eh? Ron __________________ Editor Beyond The Blue Magazine www.beyondmagazine.co.uk Last edited by Decodiver : 18th April 2007 at 08:46. Reason: Formatted phone number correctly
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