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ian field

"JosephKK" wrote in message
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"John B" wrote in message
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On 26/08/2007 ian field wrote:

Apparently the September issue of Elektor is supposed to have a
free LED driver PCB - mine didn't and the newsagent vigorously
denies any part in its disappearance.

Its not the first time Elektor has arrived sans freebie and I'm
beginning to suspect foul play! Can any other reader tell me how
it was packaged, glued to the front cover/plastic envelope
........etc etc?

TIA.

Mine was attached to the top left corner with double sided tape.
Unfortunately the SM inductor had snapped in half in the post. They
made a great fuss in the magazine about developing and distributing
150,000 units of this freebie, unfortunately they don't seem to
have even considered how to package it so that it would arrive
safely at its intended destination.

That was pretty much about how they got them so cheap they could
give 150,000 away - if it was so cheap maybe they could replace all
the ones that didn't make it one way or another.

No way, the labor involved would kill them. Except possibly using
cheap Chinese labor to just send duplicate inclusions to all
subscribers.

Why only subscribers?! - At least they got a broken one on the magazine
through the post, what I gather from subsequent posts I probably wasn't the
only one who bought from a newsagent that didn't get one at all!