Richard Baggaley Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Hi all. I live on the continent but back for a week or so. Normally I pop into W H Smith's and buy RCME but I have been to 3 of them plus 4 supermarkets and no one has even a spot for the mag anymore! Where the hell can I get it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EarlyBird Posted August 3, 2022 Share Posted August 3, 2022 Radio Control Models & Electronics | August 2022 (classicmagazines.co.uk) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Baggaley Posted August 3, 2022 Author Share Posted August 3, 2022 That's just sad. Looking around I can't buy a CD either. What the hells happened to shopping?! I've ordered one thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin b Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 15 hours ago, Richard Baggaley said: That's just sad. Looking around I can't buy a CD either. What the hells happened to shopping?! The internet. 🙃 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin collins 1 Posted August 4, 2022 Share Posted August 4, 2022 My Smiths stocks it, was in there yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toto Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 My WHSmiths in Edinburgh does not seem to stock it either. Apparently, you have to order it. .... one customer down. I dont want to subscribe as I've had issues trying to unsubscribe with some magazines in the past when you get fed up after finding it's full of about 75% repetitive adverts. I only want to buy now and again. I'll read it second hand when handed in by other club members. A pity really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outrunner Posted May 20, 2023 Share Posted May 20, 2023 You can order single issues from this website, just go to the shop. If you are really keen on this hobby then I would suggest you subscribe to RCM&E as it's the only regular magazine in the UK specifically for RC flying. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toto Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 I'm afraid I need to eat my words ... or maybe a little humble pie perhaps. I popped into WHSmiths with no real expectation of getting the magazine ....... and there it was. The very last copy. So either ordered in insufficient numbers ..... or fly's off the shelf at record speeds. Either way ..... I'm happy. ... picked up a copy of Flying Scale Models at the same time ..... plenty of them. I'll try and get next months and if I'm sold on it ..... the subscription may come. This months looks ok ... but there again, I've not read it front to back, back to front and every other possible way yet. It has potential. Toto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jenkins Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Just remember Toto that this forum exists because some of us buy RCM&E regularly even though not all of the articles are of interest to us. If no one bought RCM&E, there would be no forum. It seems to me that you have gained a great deal of information from using this forum so please remember that when you are making your decisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyB Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 (edited) 19 hours ago, Peter Jenkins said: Just remember Toto that this forum exists because some of us buy RCM&E regularly even though not all of the articles are of interest to us. If no one bought RCM&E, there would be no forum. It seems to me that you have gained a great deal of information from using this forum so please remember that when you are making your decisions. Maybe, but why does that have to be the case? Plenty of forums exist without magazines to support them; just because that is how this one came into being, it doesn't mean that always has to be the case. If I were the owner I'd be trying to make sure that the magazine and the forum were both indepedently self financing, rather than one supporting the other (the addition of extra advertising here in recent times indicates they agree). Personally I don't subscribe to the mag because there is not enough in it related to my (admittedly fairly niche) interests, so I just pick up a copy whenever there is something I do really want (like a specific plan). I know that doesn't help the magazine much in the long run, but I'm realistic enough to know that my behaviours alone are not the thing that will make or break it, and it isn't my my job as a consumer to try and ensure RCM&E lives on forever. Sorry if that sounds pessimistic, but in the long run I just can't see how a genralist RC paper mag makes the money needed to sustain itself when you look at what is happening to the wider hobby and the other factors that affect participation (competing interests, ageing demographic, rise of online sales and pastimes etc.) Edited May 22, 2023 by MattyB 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jenkins Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 Fair enough Matty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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