AAM - Will you be re-subscribing?

[Guest]

I'll watch it for a week, and if it doesn't re-appear I'll regretfully remove our links to it.

[Guest]

just starting to collect machines found the website aam ' i sent in a subscription last month ?? has it closed now ?? guess i will get the cheque sent back to me any day now

[Guest]

If you have read what's been said before on this string I think you'll have picked up the gist of where things stand (and figure that next month's issue is unlikely to be 'in the post'). I think all of us who have had outstanding subscriptions will be most interested to see if you get your cheque back...or more interested to see whether he has the cheek to cash it! That being said, the magazine is fondly missed..though this website does offer some solace.

[margamatix]

I completely agree, and I too found the letter arrogant and offensive.

I am also not interested in the new format- here's a quote

"The intention is to produce a very basic advertising medium, similar to how the AAM first started, no time consuming glossy print or fancy articles, just a regular method to keep in touch and buy and sell their stuff"

Well, why would anyone pay £36 per year for that? If I just want to look at machines for sale, I can visit eBay for nothing. If I want to "keep in touch", I can do that here, far more effectively and for nothing.

Very much unimpressed.

[margamatix]

To my mind, annoying as the two year 'hicup' has been, better the glimmer of a mag and auction calander than none at all.

I paid £36 to read articles about collecting and restoring slot machines, and about amusement park and fairground rides along with photographs etc.

I did not pay £36 to receive a photocopied list of the same hopelessly overvalued machines for sale every single month.

I feel that we have all been incredibly patient here. After about a year without the appearance of AAM, a post was made on this forum about the magazine's disappearance. Within two days, I had received a mailing from Steve Hunt, grumbling about "internet libel" and promising exciting new developments with the magazine soon.

One year on, nothing whatsoever has happened, but within days of someone else starting a thread, I have received by post another "jam tomorrow" mailing, the main purpose of which seems to be to advertise his forthcoming auction.

I have been saving for over a year now to add a £350 allwin to my very small collection, and getting my £36 back would mean a lot to me. To read that Steve Hunt spent over £1000 at a Christies auction when he has repeatedly ignored my emails asking for a refund simply adds insult to injury.

I would urge both buyers and sellers to boycott his auction.

[badpenny]

To my mind, annoying as the two year 'hicup' has been, better the glimmer of a mag and auction calander than none at all..............
An interesting slant on things I feel.

When John Hamson folded his magazine following finding himself at the wrong end of someone spiking his live auctions, he immediately sent out cheques for the outstanding subscriptions. In fact he even paid for a year's subscription that had been won in a competition. That I believe is gentlemanly conduct and honouring one's committments.
My subscription to AAM either ended just before its demise or I may have been owed a copy or two I really don't know, however I had no intention of renewing as my owed copies in exchange for contributions were not honoured and the format no longer matched my interest.

As for the opening comment from a previous poster regarding "glimmers" & auctions calendars". If I do business with anyone who then gives me cause at anytime to think that self gain is more important to them, than, how others view them. I tend to distance myself.
Good reputations need constant maintenance and once muddied take a lot more to get clean than is often realised. This is an essential rule when in business or relying upon the support and goodwill of others.

I wish Steve well with his future enterprises.... as I would anyone, but will not be visiting, his pier or his auctions. Old sayings about chickens coming home to roost etc. spring to mind.
Hells teeth! I'm beginning to sound like my old dad now!

Badpenny

[pennymachines]

I think enough spleen has been vented.
I'm locking this topic.

[bryansjim]

AAM topic merge - Site Admin
Received a flyer from the AAM today its seems a lot of subscriptions had ended before the magazine did (mine had not). No mention of internet liable in this one and Steve has a lot of catering equipment for sale.
Anyone care to comment?

[coin-op]

There's already been a closed off debate about anything to do with all issues associated with the AAM mag situation etc, so there does'nt seem to be much topic here to comment on. Basically a flyer has materialised. So really it's case of take it and use it or don't.

[terry]

AAM topic merged - Site Admin
AAM DEAD??!! Not on your Nelly! No sooner have the rumour mongers started to peddle tales of his premature death when Steve pops up with the trump card...issue No.6 of the new "improved" AAM newsletter. Featured in this issue is another riveting weather report from the pier (it's been sunny this weekend), and a dozen ads for stuff that folk can't shift on ebay!! What you all have to realise that this newsletter is Steve's "Get Out Of Jail" card on the lost subscriptions front. As soon as you take delivery of your morning post with the inconspicuous white A4 envelope tucked away in the pile, you have effectively accepted the "Kings Shilling" and allowed him to creep ever closer to compensating us in the form of a photocopied sheet of uninteresting lip service. Steve's magazine and auctions used to be great but it's sad to see his and AAMs name on an obviously contrived and very cheap vehicle of escape. I wonder what sort of product will be on offer when everyone's subscriptions have expired? I suspect nothing!

[Bent Copper]

AAM topic merged - Site Admin
I don't want to start a rant war, but I just wondered how many people would be re-subscribing to the AAM (more like AAN now) when their current subscription runs out.

The subscription is £18 for 24 issues. So will you be re-subscribing?

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[margamatix]

No. It seems to me that these flyers are supposed to be the "missing" AAM magazines. I didn't pay £36 for this but have now given up on getting Steve Hunt to honour his side of the deal.

Meanwhile I expect to continue receiving a photocopied sheet of A4 paper every fortnight until Steve considers that he has fulfilled his side of the bargain.

I would never deal with him again.

[cheeky]

I have voted a resounding 'no'. We must support Southern Counties Auctioneers and Jerry's mag in full.

I was interested to hear that over 100 people went to Steve's last auction. Yes they really did. I know that most of those have moaned on this site as well. What can I say?

[Robin]

I think that the AAM magazine is no longer viable. Steve appears to have other interests now, and does not appear to be as committed to the magazine as in the past.

[bryansjim]

John Hanson tried it but prior to his 2nd or 3rd auction someone (I have my suspicions) rung the auction venue saying that they were from the gaming board and if the auction took place the machines would be seized as he did not have a gaming license. The license being a ridiculous amount and the magazine being only a hobby ,the auction being less than 100 lots John had to cancel.
This upset John and I think helped in finishing the magazine though any owed subscriptions were paid off.

[Robin]

Further to comments regarding Steve, and lack of replies. A very good friend of mine departed last year to the slot machine arcade in the sky. As he was a subscriber to the AAM mag, I contacted Steve to stop the magazine and pay outstanding contributions to local charity. To date have had no reply at all. What happened to common decency?

[trevmo]

I don't want to start the whole AAM thing off again, but has anyone received a newsheet thingy in the last month, or is it just me he's picking on?

[jimmycowman]

I didn't go but would be interested if it was open and did he sell anything? Someone must have gone ????