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Elektor Magazine.
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. |
Elektor Magazine.
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. -- John B |
Elektor Magazine.
"John B" wrote in message t... 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. |
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In message , ian field
writes 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. Checked them in two local WH Smiths on Saturday, none had then and there were no indications that they ever had them. TIA. -- Clint Sharp |
Elektor Magazine.
"Clint Sharp" wrote in message ... In message , ian field writes 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. Checked them in two local WH Smiths on Saturday, none had then and there were no indications that they ever had them. If you look at the post from John B, you will see that his arrived but was broken. |
Elektor Magazine.
flipper posted to alt.binaries.schematics.electronic:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:19:52 GMT, JosephKK wrote: John B posted to alt.binaries.schematics.electronic: 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. Sounds kind of typical in so many ways. Maybe, or maybe not, but in either case I disagree with your analysis. The authors being hack engineers presume that the publishers understand the reason that such distribution takes place. Well, that would be not just a mistake but a whole raft of them. What on earth would lead 'hack engineers' to presume the publisher's understand their engineering, motivation, or unique expectations? That isn't the publisher's job and it would be irrational to imagine you could throw just whatever the heck you feel like at them and it just 'magically' work out, and 'for free' no less. The publishers not only do not, they are seriously anathema against anything that requires any kind of special handling, and they are ****ed about such inclusions and the impact on the "bottom line". Everybody works on a 'bottom line' and it's irrational to expect someone else to not only read your mind and do your job for you but eat the cost of it as well. The authors only hope is to offset the added costs with a payment from advertisers. Part of that added cost is ensuring that their 'clever idea' works and that appropriate publishing arrangements are made. .... I rather suspect that neither were as 'unaware' as you suggest and that they thought whatever the agreed upon means was would do the job well enough but that, somewhere, somehow, someone missed or underestimated a problem. I had asserted that there was a mismatch between the engineers' expectations and the publishers' constraints. Perhaps i conveyed it poorly. |
Elektor Magazine.
flipper posted to alt.binaries.schematics.electronic:
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:04:25 GMT, JosephKK wrote: flipper posted to alt.binaries.schematics.electronic: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:19:52 GMT, JosephKK wrote: John B posted to alt.binaries.schematics.electronic: 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. Sounds kind of typical in so many ways. Maybe, or maybe not, but in either case I disagree with your analysis. The authors being hack engineers presume that the publishers understand the reason that such distribution takes place. Well, that would be not just a mistake but a whole raft of them. What on earth would lead 'hack engineers' to presume the publisher's understand their engineering, motivation, or unique expectations? That isn't the publisher's job and it would be irrational to imagine you could throw just whatever the heck you feel like at them and it just 'magically' work out, and 'for free' no less. The publishers not only do not, they are seriously anathema against anything that requires any kind of special handling, and they are ****ed about such inclusions and the impact on the "bottom line". Everybody works on a 'bottom line' and it's irrational to expect someone else to not only read your mind and do your job for you but eat the cost of it as well. The authors only hope is to offset the added costs with a payment from advertisers. Part of that added cost is ensuring that their 'clever idea' works and that appropriate publishing arrangements are made. .... I rather suspect that neither were as 'unaware' as you suggest and that they thought whatever the agreed upon means was would do the job well enough but that, somewhere, somehow, someone missed or underestimated a problem. I had asserted that there was a mismatch between the engineers' expectations and the publishers' constraints. You did more than that. You detailed what you thought the 'mismatch' was and it is that to which I disagreed. Perhaps i conveyed it poorly. Naw, I think you conveyed what you meant just fine. Then come up with better data and convince me. |
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