[AJD] ebay # 280197269334 - great job on TC

[Frank]

Krieg:

never said I was unhappy........never said I was a dissenter!!!!

never said it was NOT a great job!

Frank
gremaux at midrivers.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kreig" <astroguy at nas.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [AJD] ebay # 280197269334 - great job on TC


> JR,
>
> You and your staff are a doing a great job!!  No need to waste your 
> efforts
> on a dissenter!!
>
> One always has to ask themselves;  "What have I done to improve the 
> hobby?"
> I wont mention my small efforts but I do know there are more happy TC and 
> NG
> collectors than unhappy ones.
>
> Keeep up the good work.  Kreig
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "J.R. Hobbs" <jrhobbs2004 at yahoo.com>
> To: "JD List" <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 3:27 PM
> Subject: [AJD] Fwd: Re: [JDAT] Re: ebay # 280197269334
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Frank,
>>
>>  If you knew anything about the economics of the publishing business,
>> you'd know that what you propose simply isn't possible. The rest of this
>> year will be far more TC than NG, but there will be some NG this, and 
>> will
>> be for the foreseeable future. You have to realize that people like Jack
>> and myself, no matter what our personal preferences might be, have to try
>> to please over 18K subscribers per issue, which simply isn't possible.
>>
>>  As for the cover photo, I thought it was great, no matter who it was
>> taken for. But everybody likes different stuff. We get people who are
>> PO'ed we won't put a photo of their chrome-plated butchered-up pulling
>> tractor on the cover (not gonna happen, EVER) ,so it's a no-win 
>> situation.
>>
>>  I'm sorry, I don't think we're out of balance. How many more times would
>> you like us to go over every fact and re-run (for the 4th or 5th time)
>> every photo we have on, say, early Model "D" Tractors?  There's no
>> interest in them. We've not had a spoker D at Expo for 3 years!!  If we
>> covered what's popular right now, it would be "20" and "30" Series
>> tractors. I think you'd get sick of those in short orderl
>>
>>  I'm sorry you feel the way you do. I hope that someday you'll see that
>> we're doing what we think is necessary for the hobby to continue. Jack is
>> 65, I'm 55, disabled, with a possibly terminal illness, and there's 
>> nobody
>> coming up to take our places.We're trying to recruit people and getting
>> nowhere, because you have to devote your life to this, and young people
>> don't want to do that. What's gonna happen when Jack says "Enough", or if
>> I die?  If we don't get this info out while we're alive, it may never get
>> out at all. Chew on that for a while.
>>
>>  JR
>>
>> Frank <gremaux at midrivers.com> wrote:
>>
>> JR
>>
>> still think you should put NG in their own mag.......then you will say 
>> put
>> implements in one too........
>> I am only interested in two cylinder and don't read about NG.......I do
>> agree with you that there is a place just don't think it is this
>> mag........I also agree that it is a tractor that is becoming collectable
>> but.......
>>
>> The picture is a great picture and I imagine Mr Cherry was proud of it as
>> his son and future family should be....
>>
>> could be some sort of balance in your mag but ...........
>>
>> Frank
>> gremaux at midrivers.com
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