diggin4clad
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I don't know the exact date they went under.Yeah since what, last Fall?
I don't know the exact date they went under.Yeah since what, last Fall?
The March 2019 issue of Western & Eastern Treasures Magazine will be its last printed issue and from that point on the magazine will only be available in digital format. I'm wondering if this will be the first step toward disappearing like other MD'ing magazines like Lost Treasure, Treasure, Treasure Search etc.etc.
I totally agree with you that eventually W&ET may soon be gone after going all digital.I think that it is a real shame that printed magazines like Lost Treasure & Western & Eastern treasure that have been around for so very long will no longer be around. I doubt Western & Eastern Treasure will be around long after it goes all digital. Lost treasure started pushing the digital version a few years back and even had a free online monthly version. They even gave away a free detector every month . In the end I guess not enough people subscribed to their digital and it all shut down. I used to send suggestions when I saw news articles that would make good articles. Didn't see anything about it in the last issue I got so it must have been a sudden decision . If anyone has any farther information on what happened I would love to know.
Well this Suxs ... I have many months left on my subscription and like many here I'd rather have print to read lengthy articles than a digital version. Maybe it just me getting old. The only thing that stays the same is the fact that everything changes. This is no exception.
I used to get these way back when and I still miss 'em. I am always picking up old back issues.
I just now did a quick search and you might have seen this site already, but just in case here is a site with an archived old bottle magazine online -
https://issuu.com/antiquebottles/docs/september12final-optimized
I just now did a quick search and you might have seen this site already, but just in case here is a site with an archived old bottle magazine online -
https://issuu.com/antiquebottles/docs/september12final-optimized
I used to get these way back when and I still miss 'em. I am always picking up old back issues.
I just now did a quick search and you might have seen this site already, but just in case here is a site with an archived old bottle magazine online -
https://issuu.com/antiquebottles/docs/september12final-optimized
Wasn't aware of that site - Thanks Gary!
When I called them on the phone I was told that I'd only receive 5 digital issues to replace my five print issues I had left. Contacted them by Email and they gave me a year to make up for the difference in price but I won't be renewing when the time is up.Well this Suxs ... I have many months left on my subscription and like many here I'd rather have print to read lengthy articles than a digital version. Maybe it just me getting old. The only thing that stays the same is the fact that everything changes. This is no exception.
Glasshopper, your post with the magazine photos reminded me that I have ONE old issue of Old Bottle Magazine (1975). See photo below. Forgot where I picked it up, but I must have bought it for the insulator story, as I was into glass insulators for a while also.
Jim
That's a very sad story......same thing sort of happened to me. I lost many back issues of "Treasure", "Treasure Search", and W&ET magazine from the 1980's and some old books on metal detecting, not to mention a box full of oddball finds when I moved back in 1990. I think my ex-wife may have "accidentally" or even on purpose threw them all away.
When I called them on the phone I was told that I'd only receive 5 digital issues to replace my five print issues I had left. Contacted them by Email and they gave me a year to make up for the difference in price but I won't be renewing when the time is up.
Yea I think they're shooting themselves in the foot. A lot of people are not going to renew when the subscription runs out and I don't see how they can attract new subscribers equal to those who let their subscription lapse with only a digital version.
Me I like to take my mag and read in the hot tub but dont see that happening with a digital version. Oh well the death of another good magazine. I'm guessing they did this due to costs but forgot to factor in the subscriber's wants and wishes.
it's a shame that after more than 50 years its come to this.Yea I think they're shooting themselves in the foot. A lot of people are not going to renew when the subscription runs out and I don't see how they can attract new subscribers equal to those who let their subscription lapse with only a digital version.
Me I like to take my mag and read in the hot tub but dont see that happening with a digital version. Oh well the death of another good magazine. I'm guessing they did this due to costs but forgot to factor in the subscriber's wants and wishes.
With Tesoro out of business they'll lose some advertising money and I noticed that for a while now Kellyco hadn't been running ads anymore, another big source of revenue gone.With such a limited market of viewers out there , you wouldn't think they could afford to loose the share of the market of people that like printed copies.
Today 2-12-19 I received my instructions from W&ET regarding the conversion of my subscription to digital. Only thing is, I converted it a week ago. I guess the mail is slow around these parts. Also, I called to see if back issues other than the annual "Silver & Gold" issuesare still available for sale and was told that they are not due to a lack of interest.
I was thinking that they'd want to get rid of as many as they could now that they're going to digital only but the guy I talked to didn't seem to want to bother trying to sell me any. A while back they were selling back issues for $2 each.Some one could probably buy up all their old back issues and sell them in batches on line ,if they could get them cheap enough.