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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Audio/Music Magazines and bingo cards
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Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 01:07:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 19 01:07:49 1984
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On bingo cards for info:
 >Another defect of the new-style HIGH FIDELITY is the games they are
 >playing with reader-service "bingo" cards. They dropped the cards
 >when they went to the new format,...
 >
 >Anyway, I have always felt that one of the prime purposes of these
 >"quasi-technical" hobby magazines is to serve as a conduit of
 >info between the advertising manufacurers/dealers and the readership,
 >and having Business-Reply-Mail reader-service was the best way to
 >fulfill that function,...

I hope other people have had better luck with bingo cards than I have.  I
don't know whether it's the magazines or the advertisers, but I get much
less than a 50% response to items I request, and it usually takes at least
three months to get even those responses.  I'd like them if it were
possible to get responses, but I've just about decided it isn't worth the
bother.

Anyone else have this sort of experience?
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Dick Dunn	{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd		(303)444-5710 x3086
	...Cerebus for dictator!