Thanks for the feedback George, but you're wrong, you've made a number of assumptions... and assumption is the mother of all f%$kups. I am paying for the adverts that go with the story, so it is in no way free. This was all to be part of an advertising campaign to get my business known nationally.
In one thing you are right tho - it technically wasn't 'written' by them, but they compiled it without my knowledge and definitely without my prior approval. I would never have allowed it to be printed had I seen it before it went to print. It was in no way done under instruction by me, and in fact I was under the impression that nothing was going to be printed in this edition at all.
And as for your advice about planning the article, that is exactly what I did in the november edition, and I assumed I would have the chance to do so in december as well. I am definitely going to do the third one myself. The reason many people won't make sense of it is because it doesn't actually make sense. Its disjointed, random and has no flow at all.
Now don't get me wrong, compared to all other printed 4WD mags in this country 4x4 Action mag shines... its about real 4WDing, not brand new $100k+ shiny trucks no-one can afford. And I have spoken at length with Bobbie about this and have come to an agreement about a resolution (she accepts it wasn't right). But this wasn't supposed to just be a little ramble about my truck, it was supposed to be a (paid) spotlight on my ability and business direction. In that respect it fell flat and did more harm than good in my opinion.
So once again, thanks for your feedback. I understand you are naturally going to defend them given your involvement with the mag, but now you have a few more facts.
Steve
Jungle wrote:Just in defence of the 4x4 action mag.
The second article was not written by 4x4 action, it was taken from a collection of post from this web site and compiled by 4x4action. I assume this was done under instruction by Supralux.
I also assume that Supralux didn't pay for the article to be printed and as this magazine is all about stories written by the 4wder you quite often get articles that are not perfectly compiled. To me, the story in the mag looks just like the posts on the site. It also looks like supralux has just had a heap of free advertising for his company?
My suggestions for future technical write ups is that you need to give a timeline of events and need to give detail of order of photo's and details of what is in each pic.
You really need to understand that not everyone will understand what you have written. We are all at different levels of technical know how and some things really need to be spell out.
I hope this is the sort of feedback you were after Supralux.
Cheers
Jungle
(Yes, thats shameless trolling for votes, I have to do it before the electoral reform bill comes into effect 
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.... the best advertising is be word of mouth ..so if you give me all your money Ill tell anyone that you are a good bastard ( or whatever they want to hear ) 
