Your custom 4WD and your big boy toys

Well I fail to see how this magazine has the nerve to come on to this forum and ask for pictures to help them sell their mag without paying for coming on this site.

In my case I do pay to advertise on this site but I also made the mistake of running an ad in one of their mags for 12 months and got done a beauty.

I ran a small ad in their mag promoting my isolators.

As an incentive to advertise with them, as part of the 12 month campaign I was promised a featured article.

NEVER HAPPENED.

But to make matters worse, halfway through my 12 months of ads, they run a feature guide about isolators.

Guess what, I read through the guide and my isolators don’t even get a mention while other brands of isolators, NOT advertised in their mag get a mention.

As it turned out, by the time I finished reading their “GUIDE” I was ever so glad my gear was not mention.

The “GUIDE” was nothing more than a grossly misleading promotional article for their big time advertisers.

And just to add insult to injury, the month after my last ad ran, someone from their mag rings me and told me they were to get info about a featured article.

I told them my ads had now finished, and this clown tells me I could run another 12 month ad campaign to go with the featured article.

I’m not allowed to post up what I replied to this clown, but you can imagine.

Again, I think they have a hide coming on this site to help them sell the mag without paying to advertise here first.

Not the first business i have heard that from DRIVESAFE, just speak to any ex employees of that rag to find out how they do things.

I have and this friend worked for the mag for a number of years and said it was the best job she ever had.

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I prepared a (non 4wd) car for someone and they were offered a spread in a part time ricer mag (of the same publisher) and it was talked over with the owner of the car and I agreed but had a doc drawn up to prevent them from publishing anything that wasn't vetoed by myself and signed off. I provided a list of all the parts used and a write up of everything done and who as outside contractors I used.

The first draft of the article came through and not only was not one supplier mentioned but their advertisers who were in the mag's names were substituted, same for other service providers. I took to it with a big red marker and corrected it all. Came back, reedited back to original.

Ended up playing letter ping-pong until I got jack of it and went to the suppliers etc and had a doc made up preventing them from publishing any pics of stories of it at all delivered by one of their lawyers. Then they still sent a mock up through 15 months later wanting approval to publish.

This mob sure as hell left a bad taste in my mouth, and not sticking up for them, but I wonder if other magazine mobs are as bad?

what would be nice is some stroys on the old stuff, like tracking down a few Isuzu county's, and tagging along on a trip, or following a bunch of springers or RELMA, could do the same with the jeep bunch as well.

This is one at short notice
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...2011/10/18.jpg:D

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Originally Posted by fender95vnt

This is one at short notice
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...2011/10/18.jpg:D

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That would be published as Toyota pulls Land Rover backwards out of sand:eek:

Wayne

The Mag only seems interested in late model vehicles anyway.
We ran into a guy from the mag at Zig Zag a few weeks ago.
He introduced himself and said to Brendan than the mag would like to do a feature on his 130 Puma on Portals.Now this is a beautiful truck,and deserving of a feature somewhere,Brendan said he wasn't interested,but that he should look at my truck,as it has lots of good bits and pieces fitted.The guy from the mag,didn't even acknowledge the comment and walked away without another word.Guess they have seen too many white Defenders:cool:

Wayne

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...11/11/1070.jpg