Rich Griff Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Hi Andy, Is it correct that every member of the BMFA will receive a "free" hard copy with stickers, of the 2025 February BMFA news, just like last year, please ? For 2024, a free February issue of the BMFA news with stickers was sent out. In that issue, on page 5 at the bottom of the page, if my memory is correct, there was a boxed article about the 2024 issues of BMFA news. It stated that 2024 BMFA news was going to be limited to 4 issues, but in the back of that issue, February issue, the BMFA advert stated 6 issues per year. May and August hard and digital issues ran the same advert. November issue of the BMFA hard copy still carries the incorrect BMFA advert, frozen in time, but the November digital issues carried the same incorrect advert, for all to see, until the incorrect advert was removed and replaced with the current advert. You may remember our pm messages. I free issues, how that is paid for remains to be seen. The magic £10 therefore paid for the remaining 3 hard copy issues, May, August and November. That means the cost of the 3 paid for issues costs.....well you can do the arithmetic. As we both know that problem has been sorted for the 2025 issues, both hard and digital. Had censorship not taken place on the other thread, it would have been completed as above, but with the added text in the next entry, not much more to come i promise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrumpyGnome Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 If you wany to contact someone, I'd suggest direct mail...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Griff Posted November 9 Author Share Posted November 9 Andy, you may have seen the "torture logic" comment in the budget thread, cost cutting. February edition is free to all members, at what cost i wonder..... Digital copy free but how to email stickers, mmmmmmmmmm May be at the time of membership renewal, say for before mid January 2024, due to printing deadlines etc....and admin..... Could not signed and paid up members "opt out" of receiving the hard copy with stickers, or "opt out" of just the hard copy, but receive the free stickers, or not opt out at all so receiving the mag and stickers, just like last year ?? Members not wishing to receive a hard copy and receiving one would probably do as they normally do, and bin the mag. What a waste....of BMFA money, effort, time and money ! The BMFA management may feel that it is easier just to send out the free February hard copy with stickers, money aware people that they are. Members wishing to receive the magic £10 copies, being 3 copies, as Februaries copy is free anyway, will be happy. How the Free February copy is funded, by the magic £10 possibly, or members subs, or BMFA reserves, is not known to me. Becoming a BMFA member in 2025 is appealing, as is the magic £10 cost of the 3 remaining BMFA news hard copies. Being sent the 2024 "magic £10 3 hard copies" , gratis, was lovely, which caused the initial thread, and to some extent this thread, to be made. Thanks for the opportunity to comment. Proper computers are great ain't they, lightening fast internet, a huge screen where the text leaps out at you, in your face nearly, and the spell check, wow. The only down side is the free bus ride into town and the time constraint of being allowed to use the computer. Cant have everything one supposes. ps before i forget, pictures saved as a safeguard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted November 9 Share Posted November 9 Excellent point GG. We don’t want to go down the same blind alley as the last thread on this subject where I think everything possible was said. I will close this off for the time being. 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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