Originally posted by cstmwgn
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Sponsors pushing product and giving it away to where it will get ink probably also means they're ready and up there to sell and ship it to customers, some companies making the "best" stuff may not be interested when a guy like me calls, who knows. Magazines are really (and sorta have to be) one big advertisement, their task is bringing attention into the marketplace, manufacturers who want to participate can buy ads and send stuff, companies who would rather hide in a corner or niche can do it their way too but don't expect too much attention from a media that's in the business of attention.
I've had some hard lessons buying parts from companies very-much favored over time by magazine writers, and canceled subscriptions when I felt the magazines participating in pushing those products (or in some cases collaborating with the thieves selling them) were full of crap... Just how it goes. I don't think it's possible for the magazines to really tell us what the best products for me are anyhow, out here in the jungle we sorta hafta work it out for ourselves.
It's like some of those mags, you-know...I'm just mainly reading 'em for the pictures...
(Just my opinion.)
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