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Fine Scale Modeler Reader's Survey
Sabot
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:03 AM UTC
In the October issue of FSM, there is a green reader's survey. Question #3 asks about what hobby publications you read. It lists Hyperscale.com and Internet Modeler. We should send in the ballot and write in Armorama.com in the "other" spot. It's postage paid so it won't cost you anything if you already get the magazine.
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:11 AM UTC
Sounds like a winning idea to me! :-)

BUT, I can't seem to locate one in mine.
Sabot
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 07:24 AM UTC
It's a big fold out in mine, 44 questions.
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 08:12 AM UTC
Too Bad! Because I just stop subscribing them, I received the last issue (september2002).....
But to everybody that got an issue send them out...
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:07 AM UTC
Great idea Rob. I sent mine in today.
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:26 AM UTC
In the October 2002 issue? (the one with the 1/32 Corsair?)
I can't seem to find the survey? Was it on a thick green card in the middle, like the subscription cards are on?
I don't think I got one...

And I love surveys...

YodaMan
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:27 AM UTC
Hmmm, I quess I got jipped. There's no fold-out!
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:33 AM UTC
I got ripped off too!

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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:54 AM UTC
I already took care of it :-)
Nice,big red letters too.
Sabot
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:54 AM UTC

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In the October 2002 issue? (the one with the 1/32 Corsair?)
I can't seem to find the survey? Was it on a thick green card in the middle, like the subscription cards are on?
I don't think I got one...

And I love surveys...

YodaMan
Mine was wide enough to be attached by all three staples. The multi page fold out was longer than a legal sized piece of paper with a peel-n-stick strip to close it up and mail it out. If you got it, you couldn't miss it. I get my FSM via subscription, maybe it is not included on newsstand editions or only in random issues.
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:58 AM UTC
I get the subscription copy too. I searched their site for info to no avail. Sooo, I sent an inquriee via email. Maybe I'll get a replacement.
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 11:58 AM UTC
I have a subscription too but...............no reader survey in my Oct edition
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 04:06 PM UTC
I subsrcibe also and did't get anything. I didn't tear anything out (never do) so I couldn't have tossed it. Thanks for the heads up. I will shoot them an e-mail and let them know that I am a subscriber and which site I visit.

Thanks for the heads up.
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 05:58 PM UTC
Good one Rob will send it out today tell Jim to get his buckle tightened a little more (:-)
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Posted: Monday, September 16, 2002 - 11:24 PM UTC
Here's their response:

Dear Kenneth Fortier:

Thank you for contacting us. While we are not sure why you did not receive a
Reader's Survey in your issue, may we suggest you go to our website,
www.finescale.com. We have a survey online we invite you to fill out.

The survey online is: How many unbuilt kits do you have? ...bummer.
matt
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Posted: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 12:25 AM UTC
I didn't recieve one either

Matt
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Posted: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 12:29 AM UTC
Well, I too checked my FSM and no survey. The staples did not look like anything had been removed, so I guess it was a random survey, (not in all copies.) Too bad I would have liked to pass on this site. It's great :-) I will have to continue selling the site through word of mouth.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 10:35 AM UTC
I got mine,so now I will include this site.I get my FSM from a LHS anyway,maybe a bit more $ per year,but it gives me a reason to go in and look around.
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Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 10:02 AM UTC
I got one in the magazine I bought from the local hobby shop. All 10 of the copies they had there had a survey in it. I filled mine out and sent it in...

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Posted: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 10:32 PM UTC
Well I guess I will have to go out and buy a copy af FSM this weekend. I saw it at my local hobby shop this week so I know they have it. And if you folks had not said something about it. I would have most like passed this one up. So THANKS...I will go and buy one tommorow and fill out the survey. Meanwhile, Another weekend is right around the corner......Yeahhhhh, Something else to be REALLY HAPPY about !!

DAGGER-1
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Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 12:45 AM UTC
My subscription copy also came without the survey and was slightly disheveled as if the printing press tried to put it in, but missed On to their website.
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Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 03:48 AM UTC
Rob,
Nice idea. :-) :-) :-)

Thanks for the extra effort everyone.

Jim
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Posted: Thursday, September 19, 2002 - 06:29 AM UTC
No problem, Gunnie's going to buy the remaining FSMs with the survey inside and mail them in himself. Right Gunnie?
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Posted: Friday, September 20, 2002 - 02:39 AM UTC

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Thanks, Andrew, for writing. Indeed FSM just included in its October issue
several thousand survey forms, but they don't go to every magazine.

The survey gurus say that we get an accurate sample if we can receive back a
thousand or so forms, so we only mail the quantity necessary to ensure we'll
get that thousand based on a certain historical response rate. Very
scientific, I'm sure, but kind of a mystery to me.

To be honest, this survey is somewhat less useful to me than the e-mail
survey I send out after every issue. We take a random sample of e-mail names
(dedicated to the survey only, no marketing of names taken for this list)
and ask participants to evaluate each issue and FSM overall. The mailed
survey is more useful to our advertising sales and circulation people to
determine the overall state of the hobby and if the magazine is on course
for serving manufacturers.

If you'd like to be in the pool of names for the e-mail survey, just go to
our FSM homepage and find the button that says something like "Would you
like to participate in a survey?"

Thanks so much for the kind words, and don't hesitate to let me know if we
can do anything for you here at FSM.

Cordially,

Mark Thompson
Editor, FineScale Modeler
PO Box 1612, 21027 Crossroads Circle
Waukesha, Wisconsin 53187
262-796-8776


This is what I got in reply to my E-mail. Doesn't mention the web site but I made sure to tell them how much it has helped me since I came back to modeling.
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Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2002 - 09:43 PM UTC
HI Folks: Just wanted to tell everyone that I bought my copy of FSM and it had the survey in it. I filled it out and sent it in this week. It had some interesting questions. So that was okay.

DAGGER-1
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