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Author: Seamus (---.force9.co.uk)
Date: 28-02-2005 18:57
Just a thought,
How about any of us* with shops offering a discount to Velovision discussion users? Good for Business, good for promoting cycling, etc.
*Knowledgeable folk may be suspicious here just because I don't have a shop.
I would have , of course, been first to offer such a discount did I do so.
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Author: BenKinetics (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: 28-02-2005 22:12
Singletrack Magazine has a subscriber's club, which gets discounts.
Perhaps a scheme like that?
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Author: Arch (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: 01-03-2005 08:55
Yes please! Discounts at Betty's Tea Shop, Pizza Express and the Maltings for me please.
Didn't Bike Culture Quarterly/Bycycle have a club... ;-)
<Duck and cover>
Would there have to be membership cards, or could we use a code word? 'Seamus' perhaps...
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Author: Tom (---.park-s46b.dslaccess.co.uk)
Date: 01-03-2005 10:41
Great idea Arch!
Pete, I know where you can buy about 3 tons of Dutch Bici(y)cle overshoes very cheap! ;-)
... there's so much time, and so little to do. No, wait a minute...
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Author: Arch (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: 01-03-2005 12:55
"Pete, I know where you can buy about 3 tons of Dutch Bici(y)cle overshoes very cheap! ;-)"
Buy!? Nah. Go to enough roadshows, you'll get them free...
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Author: Andy Scaife (---.fast.net.uk)
Date: 01-03-2005 15:57
I remember THAT "Club". Seems to me that they'd just fallen prey to someone's sales pitch, as the "Club" just seemed to be a catalogue of silly offers for health insurance and the like. I complained and was told that it was managed by some company, and not Open Road at all.
I remember being p***ed off with the largest of the clubs for MG owners, for the same reason.
Andy Scaife,
BikeRescue
York, UK.
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Author: Seamus (---.force9.co.uk)
Date: 01-03-2005 18:10
Wassock that I was I actually gave those nice people some of my money for a year and all I got out of it was a credit card sized piece of card with, "Bycycle," written on it.
I aslo complaine dthat the sorts of things being offered discounts upon did not seem to accurately reflect any potential lifestyle choices likely to be held by readers of that magazine (whenever it showed up)
Impertinent thread topic really 'cos on Saturday I ordered some stuff, unavailable from local dealers, from Ben. (think your blog works well).
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Author: BenKinetics (---.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk)
Date: 01-03-2005 22:16
Hah, yes, and I've already got your cheque so nar nar nee nar nar ;-)
I think it's an interesting idea, though - seems to work for Singletrack...
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Author: Arch (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: 02-03-2005 08:52
I don't know anything about how this kind of thing works, but I suspect it has to be run by a separate company, unless the magazine has a big publishing house infrastructure behind it. As I remember, VV's infrastructure is mostly timber and fitted into a very small office... ;-) And sales pitches can be very effective, especially inflatable five-a-side ones (sorry, in-joke that about 3 people will get).
So, Seamus (and everyone). What are the lifestyle choices that readers of VV are likely to make? Apart from the blindingly obvious 'bikes'.
Beer?
Cake?
...
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Author: BenKinetics (---.server.ntli.net)
Date: 02-03-2005 12:28
Simplest solution is that each subscriber gets a membership card with an encrypted number on it. The mag (or website) has a list of all dealers signed up to the scheme. Then, when you order, you give your subscriber number.
Very simple to set up...
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Author: Tom (---.park-s46b.dslaccess.co.uk)
Date: 02-03-2005 12:39
Assuming the datum lifestyle is Pete's, then home cinema equipment, cutting fluid and cast treats for a start...
... there's so much time, and so little to do. No, wait a minute...
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Author: Arch (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: 02-03-2005 17:15
"and cast treats"
Cats treats I think you mean... Unless a cast treat is a piece of foundary equipment I don't know about...
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Author: Tony Smith (---.cosh.broadband.ntl.com)
Date: 03-03-2005 12:55
I thought he meant "cast treats", that this was some connection with the home cinema?
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Author: Tom (---.park-s46b.dslaccess.co.uk)
Date: 03-03-2005 13:58
Now you've made me ponder it, I suspect that some complex and diminutive casting in an obscure alloy would be more like Pete anyway...
... there's so much time, and so little to do. No, wait a minute...
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Author: Andy Scaife (---.fast.net.uk)
Date: 06-03-2005 16:40
Pots and kettles here methinks! What would your own 'consumer demographic' come out like i wonder?
Citroen suspension fluid? sock dye?
Andy (this week's receipts for; Woody Allen DVDs - fine chocolate - Ruby Tuesday cider - sweet potatoes - purple D-Ms - Brooks proofide - 'Good Charlotte' gig tickets - Jasminun nudiflorum) Scaife
Andy Scaife,
BikeRescue
York, UK.
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Author: Tom (---.park-s46b.dslaccess.co.uk)
Date: 07-03-2005 14:24
Andy! How could you! You should know better than to infer that any of my Citroens use suspension fluid! Good low-tech peasant transport, both of 'em...
Far be it from me to infer anything negative about any Velovisioner's shopping demographic ;-)
... there's so much time, and so little to do. No, wait a minute...
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Author: Tony Smith (---.cosh.broadband.ntl.com)
Date: 08-03-2005 12:42
Careful now - look what happened last time this turned into a motoring forum. I'm sure that started with Citroens too! Nothing against them - we've had 3, though I'm afraid they've all been of the green goo drinking variety. My wife won't have a 2CV after watching a friends one blow over in Sweden. I think she's also a bit concerned about image, judging by the reaction when I bought a Brompton!
I suppose I also shopuld declare that among my more unusual machines in the past have been a couple of AEC Matadors. Not very practical but great fun to get back at the idoits in SUVs!
That's all i the pasty now, these days most of my money seems to go on bills, children and animals!
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Author: Andy Scaife (---.fast.net.uk)
Date: 08-03-2005 14:16
Well, Tom, not many of us can make the statement "None of my Citroens"!
Andy Scaife,
BikeRescue
York, UK.
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Author: Tom (---.park-s46b.dslaccess.co.uk)
Date: 08-03-2005 18:56
But what a group to belong to, eh? ;-)
... there's so much time, and so little to do. No, wait a minute...
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Author: Arch (---.york.ac.uk)
Date: 09-03-2005 09:05
Andy, Tom, stop it. Next you'll be growing antlers and chasing each other off your territories. And the Maltings just ain't big enough to accommodate antlers. ;-)
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