Author Topic: AMI is REALLY selling Flex and Muscle & Fitness! No Joke! (Read 22576 times)

adipo8 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:02:12 AM »

No one should bid on it - Let it go and let the other magazines split the market and keep it moving.

bmacsys · « **Reply #26 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:39:37 AM »

All the muscle mags suck. The way they insult your intelligence by trying to pass off ads as articles sickens me. They won't get money from me while they have SHIT for editorial content.

benchthis · « **Reply #27 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:41:44 AM »

who do i make the check out too

snarky · « **Reply #28 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:57:44 AM »

Quote from: bigdumbbell on June 14, 2006, 10:50:15 AM

could be true...fact is, the numbers for flex and M&F are horrible

Not really. Fact is, the numbers are great. That's why the asking price is high.

Tre · « **Reply #29 on:** June 14, 2006, 11:59:19 AM »

Quote from: bmacsys on June 14, 2006, 11:39:37 AM

All the muscle mags suck. The way they insult your intelligence by trying to pass off ads as articles sickens me. They won't get money from me while they have SHIT for editorial content.

No argument there.

snarky · « **Reply #30 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:04:21 PM »

Quote from: bmacsys on June 14, 2006, 11:39:37 AM

All the muscle mags suck. The way they insult your intelligence by trying to pass off ads as articles sickens me. They won't get money from me while they have SHIT for editorial content.

The magazines aren't trying to insult your intellegence. The advertisers create those ads designed to look like edit. Your beef should be with them.

Tre · « **Reply #31 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:05:57 PM »

Quote from: snarky on June 14, 2006, 12:04:21 PM

The magazines aren't trying to insult your intellegence. The advertisers create those ads designed to look like edit. Your beef should be with them.

I understand what you're saying, but the previous poster's point was that he isn't going to support that practice or the recycled training articles.

bmacsys · « **Reply #32 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:07:46 PM »

Quote from: snarky on June 14, 2006, 12:04:21 PM

The magazines aren't trying to insult your intellegence. The advertisers create those ads designed to look like edit. Your beef should be with them.

There should be clear line drawn between commercial content and editorial content.

The Showstoppa · « **Reply #33 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:09:29 PM »

I'll give them a $100 for the whole lot.

bmacsys · « **Reply #34 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:10:38 PM »

Quote from: snarky on June 14, 2006, 12:04:21 PM

The advertisers create those ads designed to look like edit. Your beef should be with them.

Isn't Muscle Mag International and Muscle Tech supplement or whatever its called the same entity? The Muscle Tech ads are pawned off as "real" articles.

Azure · « **Reply #35 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:13:04 PM »

Quote from: Tre on June 14, 2006, 11:59:19 AM

No argument there.

Completely agree as well. Plus they have the same old boring people in the magazines every month. How many articles can you read about Ronnie's 23 inch guns and to get them you do this training routine

snarky · « **Reply #36 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:22:41 PM »

Quote from: bmacsys on June 14, 2006, 12:10:38 PM

Isn't Muscle Mag International and Muscle Tech supplement or whatever its called the same entity? The Muscle Tech ads are pawned off as "real" articles.

But that's Muscle Mag, NOT Muscle & Fitness, NOT Flex. MD has the same problem. Why do the Weider/AMI titles get slammed for the same thing their competitors are dealing with?

bmacsys · « **Reply #37 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:26:08 PM »

Quote from: snarky on June 14, 2006, 12:22:41 PM

But that's Muscle Mag, NOT Muscle & Fitness, NOT Flex. MD has the same problem. Why do the Weider/AMI titles get slammed for the same thing their competitors are dealing with?

I meant all of them, namely the AMI mags.

Tre · « **Reply #38 on:** June 14, 2006, 12:39:15 PM »

Quote from: Azure on June 14, 2006, 12:13:04 PM

Completely agree as well. Plus they have the same old boring people in the magazines every month. How many articles can you read about Ronnie's 23 inch guns and to get them you do this training routine

For the past 20+ years, they've done a poor job of making and marketing new stars.

Consumers tend to dislike stale products.

timfogarty · « **Reply #39 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:42:38 PM »

AMI is keeping Men's Fitness. That formula obviously works. Too bad they couldn't apply a similar formula to more hard core bodybuilding.

240 is Back · « **Reply #40 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:49:22 PM »

the ads are awesome

Manninen dude · « **Reply #41 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:50:51 PM »

Boss Blechman just told me that he purchased Flex.

240 is Back · « **Reply #42 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:52:12 PM »

Quote from: Manninen dude on June 14, 2006, 01:50:51 PM

Boss Blechman just told me that he purchased Flex.

should be interesting.

Manni, how many more AMI athletes do I have to demolish before you guys give me a column? Sheesh.

Manninen dude · « **Reply #43 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:53:08 PM »

Quote from: snarky on June 14, 2006, 12:04:21 PM

The magazines aren't trying to insult your intellegence. The advertisers create those ads designed to look like edit. Your beef should be with them.

Exactly. If you feel some company is making BS claims, dont buy their products and also tell to your friends to avoid them.

Manninen dude · « **Reply #44 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:54:42 PM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on June 14, 2006, 01:52:12 PM

should be interesting.

Manni, how many more AMI athletes do I have to demolish before you guys give me a column? Sheesh.

Actually we will give your a MD column. However, you are not the author and its called "240 is Punk"

240 is Back · « **Reply #45 on:** June 14, 2006, 01:58:02 PM »

Quote from: Manninen dude on June 14, 2006, 01:54:42 PM

Actually we will give your a MD column. However, you are not the author and its called "240 is Punk"

I see you're the funny one on the MD staff.

dantelis · « **Reply #46 on:** June 14, 2006, 02:23:06 PM »

And after AMI totally devalued the products in two short years, old Uncle Joe Weider swoops in and picks them up for a song, thus making a huge profit from the sale and re-purchase of his franchise!

Actually, as little as these magazines are worth now (does anyone still buy Flex and M&F anymore?), I'd think we could pass the hat here at GetBig and come up with enough to purchase them ourselves. I'll chip in the first $5.00.

DragonsBreath · « **Reply #47 on:** June 14, 2006, 02:35:20 PM »

You could have seen this coming from a mile away. Nice going AMI.

McGough, speak on this. we know ur reading this!

bmacsys · « **Reply #48 on:** June 14, 2006, 02:36:34 PM »

Quote from: Manninen dude on June 14, 2006, 01:53:08 PM

Exactly. If you feel some company is making BS claims, dont buy their products and also tell to your friends to avoid them.

It has nothing to do with that. It is the habit of trying to pass off paid ads as editorial content. These magazines and supplement companies are in bed together. They deliberately try to blur the line between what is a legit article and what is just a infomercial type article with no intent but to hype a particular product.

YoMamaBeenLurking · « **Reply #49 on:** June 14, 2006, 02:39:17 PM »

Quote from: Ron on March 30, 2006, 02:11:44 PM

Ok - lets get somethings straight.

The Olympia Weekend this year will be the biggest yet, with more booths and more people than ever before. There is no problem with the Olympia Weekend, nor the promotion of the Olympia Weekend, nor the sponsors of the Olympia Weekend. They will be doing just fine. Even the title sponsor is new, pumping in a lot of monies for more prize money, and more excitement.

Now, as for AMI, Weider Pubs is doing just fine, and Pecker has much bigger problems to take care of then deal with the profitable side of things.

So yes - many of us, including myself - have already booked the rooms, time and plan to support the Olympia, the athletes that participate in it, and everything else associated with it. Like it or not, the Olympia is the biggest bodybuilding event of the year (Arnold is smaller for bodybuilding only). The die hards and the purests and the peopel that enjoy bodybuilding come to the show. And that is that.

Nothing is going to beat it right now. Plain and simple.

Hey Ron, ready to come back to planet earth yet?