I contacted them to see about a demo so I could post a review for my readers here and on the other sites I frequent, in addition to the facebook groups I own and admin on. It seems about 45k readers here and several thousand members on those other groups didn't qualify me to be able to do that, am I offended, no not really.
I think you guys are worth it but hey I can always go buy one and they are cheap enough, sooooo that's what I will do.
Something did trouble me though. I've found that if you make a good product you aren't worried about What people might say, its simply here is an awesome product or I'm not interested. I have a nasty reputation for calling a pos product a pos, (unlike the big name magazines in the store) and this worries people that put out sub par products.
When I received this reply from them in an email I began to wonder.
Hello Jerry,
Thank you for contacting us, we are always happy to send out samples for review however we need some more information from you before we can move forward. Can you provide a list of all of the social media sites including Face book pages and communities you are a part of? As well as what could we expect your review to look like, can we see samples of your work? Please understand our situation, we have to check out every possible reviewer because we have had a few bad instances where we have to track down the reviewers and it takes 3-4 months to get a review or the reviewers target audience/following isn’t what we are looking for etc.
No reviewer takes 3-4 months, unless (just a thought) the mag didn't hold up well and they reached some back room deal?
As it sits these guys are going up against some well established names in the industry, and it will be an uphill battle, will I recommend them? Nope. If I buy one of their mags and it does great will I then recommend them? Yep. But would still be worried about the customer service.
As it sits right now I would and will tell everyone just stay away, maybe after there more open to honest reviews from people like me that won't do puff cake reviews then we will see.
On second thought, these guys are from Colorado, perhaps their just high?..lol