Author Topic: Flex magazine, terrible...!! (Read 10052 times)

Noze · « **on:** March 08, 2006, 02:44:54 AM »

I have been a subscriber of Flex for about 4 years and when I first ordered the magazine I always received it within a week after it was published in the US
(I live in Europe). After Weider publications was sold to AMI the once great customer care has deteriorated to point of a joke. Not one issue has been delivered when it was supposed to and I have to BEG for my copy with several emails and often I do not receive it at all.

If I receive my mag it usually over a month late, and there is really no point in reading an old magazine.

Now I am missing the latest copy and their customer care hasn`t even bothered to answer me.

Time to subscribe to MD, I think...

Bluto · « **Reply #1 on:** March 08, 2006, 02:59:02 AM »

for every issue of flex, you could get a copy of a porn mag instead

Noze · « **Reply #2 on:** March 08, 2006, 04:12:26 AM »

Good point

Slick Vic · « **Reply #3 on:** March 08, 2006, 04:24:41 AM »

Flex magazine subscription sucks! It'll be on the stands for a week before you get your copy.

CaptainDominate · « **Reply #4 on:** March 08, 2006, 06:37:38 AM »

noze, yea youre right man fuck flex magazine, i get mine late every fucking time too, and they also send mine to a previous address when it was changed a while ago, the funny thing is that customer service tells me theyll extend my subscription, then 4 or 5 months before my subscription expires then bombard me with renewal notices that say "final notice" even after i pay almost immediately. ill be subscribing to MD soon, flex customer service is a fucking joke

michael arvilla · « **Reply #5 on:** March 08, 2006, 06:56:49 AM »

LAURA got me 2 subcriptions for christmas
(Flex and Muscular Developement)
i have recieved MD still waiting on Flex!..................

IndustryInsider · « **Reply #6 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:30:29 AM »

Interesting numbers for you all direct from this weeks min newsletter…

March 6, 2006
Media Industry Newsletter (min)
Vol. 59 No. 10

Second Half 2005 Magazine Analysis

Flex Rate Base/Circ Guarantee
None claimed

Single Copies (%) (Newsstand Sales)
70,529 (-7.3%)
This is not a sign of poor customer service, producing a withering product editorially is most likely the culprit for the decline in sales here.

Subscriptions (%)
41,111 (-13.4%)
This decline looks to be right on par with your customer service woes.

Total (%)
111,640 (-9.6%)

Ouch!

alexxx · « **Reply #7 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:33:18 AM »

Flex is garbage material! Read the web!

Jr. Yates · « **Reply #8 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:40:25 AM »

Quote from: alexxx on March 08, 2006, 11:33:18 AM

Flex is garbage material! Read the web!

flex is all eat your brocolli and you'll be Ronnie in no time....Ronnie knows that when he has a big workout coming up he maxes his squats just like his brocolli intake.

alexxx · « **Reply #9 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:42:59 AM »

Quote from: Jr. Yates on March 08, 2006, 11:40:25 AM

flex is all eat your brocolli and you'll be Ronnie in no time....Ronnie knows that when he has a big workout coming up he maxes his squats just like his brocolli intake.

Yes Junior! Ronnie knows that in order to get big you need to take in your minerals.

dmorgan41178 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:47:27 AM »

i prefer info from net. dont buy any of that garbage anymore.

Jr. Yates · « **Reply #11 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:54:21 AM »

Quote from: alexxx on March 08, 2006, 11:42:59 AM

Yes Junior! Ronnie knows that in order to get big you need to take in your minerals.

haha! ok i just ran and grabbed an old one...heres a line straight outta the book...."When it comes to rib-eye steak, Bui cleans his plate almost as quickly as he can clean a 315 pound barbell."

alexxx · « **Reply #12 on:** March 08, 2006, 12:01:37 PM »

Quote from: Jr. Yates on March 08, 2006, 11:54:21 AM

haha! ok i just ran and grabbed an old one...heres a line straight outta the book...."When it comes to rib-eye steak, Bui cleans his plate almost as quickly as he can clean a 315 pound barbell."

hahaha I got one too. When it comes to buns squease them dearly or the juice loses seemly.

c-u-n-hell · « **Reply #13 on:** March 08, 2006, 12:03:32 PM »

Quote from: alexxx on March 08, 2006, 12:01:37 PM

hahaha I got one too. When it comes to buns squease them dearly or the juice loses seemly.

IS that because your asshole is huge from being dicked down by your uncles or what

Jr. Yates · « **Reply #14 on:** March 08, 2006, 12:26:28 PM »

"like everything else in his bodybuilding regimen, matt duvall keeps a tight grip on protein intake"

Adam Empire · « **Reply #15 on:** March 08, 2006, 12:40:45 PM »

My subscription just ran out (after over 5 years) and i am done. I have too many late or even missing copies lately. The part I hate the most is the sugar coated articles. This is a sport that is very interesting when all things are included (just look at the range of topics on this board). Flex ignores some news just to "save" the world from seeing the "bad" things about bbing (obvious topics).

The problem is that this sugar coating or ignoring alienates the core fanbase that buys their mags. I have MD cleans house as the only mag reporting on the new fed - just to spite the sleeping Flex mag.

240 is Back · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2006, 12:43:17 PM »

how did MD rank in that similar min page?

Oldschool Flip · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2006, 01:14:58 PM »

I quit reading the others after I read MD. I am most interested in Lee's column and Dexter's columns. It's also cool to read about some of the "drug" articles. Except for all the advertising at least MD isn't sugar coating bodybuilding.

Jr. Yates · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2006, 01:59:23 PM »

Quote from: Oldschool Flip on March 08, 2006, 01:14:58 PM

I quit reading the others after I read MD. I am most interested in Lee's column and Dexter's columns. It's also cool to read about some of the "drug" articles. Except for all the advertising at least MD isn't sugar coating bodybuilding.

yes i agree...and i love the pros columbs too!

White Bread · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2006, 02:02:21 PM »

You had better subscribe to MD then. In fact, when I called to order (about 10 months ago) some sweet babe by the name of Terry hooked me up big time. I only remember her voice because it was sooo nice. But anyway, the one time I missed an issue, she sent me a new one without any questions asked...which is too bad, it would have been nice to speak with her longer. But anyway, just as in any business, SERVICE is KEY! Not only does MD serve NO BULL, its service seems to extend beyond that. Im happy.

Bluto · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2006, 02:03:03 PM »

i dont buy any magazines any more either... i look through them a little when they come out in the store, but i just cant see myself buying them and reading about obvious stuff like barbell curls and stuff like that...

Jr. Yates · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2006, 02:15:57 PM »

i get a kick out of ramblin freak though.

Oldschool Flip · « **Reply #22 on:** March 08, 2006, 05:41:47 PM »

Valentino's stories about him shittin' on himself, getting into fights, and being bitched slapped and treated like a dog by Mercedes is hilarious! Yeah I love reading the RAMBLIN FREAK too!

Slick Vic · « **Reply #23 on:** March 08, 2006, 05:51:21 PM »

Quote from: michael arvilla on March 08, 2006, 06:56:49 AM

i have recieved MD still waiting on Flex!..................

No surprise there.

Cara from MD · « **Reply #24 on:** March 09, 2006, 08:52:58 AM »

Quote from: White Bread on March 08, 2006, 02:02:21 PM

You had better subscribe to MD then. In fact, when I called to order (about 10 months ago) some sweet babe by the name of Terry hooked me up big time. I only remember her voice because it was sooo nice. But anyway, the one time I missed an issue, she sent me a new one without any questions asked...which is too bad, it would have been nice to speak with her longer. But anyway, just as in any business, SERVICE is KEY! Not only does MD serve NO BULL, its service seems to extend beyond that. Im happy.

I'm gonna print this thread and show it to Terry cuz it will make her day! And yes, she is one of the sweetest people I've ever met in my life!

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