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LVA - "free read" offer

#1

I received a promotional email offer from "Las Vegas Advisor" that begins with this paragraph:

We're so proud of the January issue of the Las Vegas Advisor newsletter that we'd like to share it with everyone. So, even if you're not an LVA member, for the first time we're inviting you to take a look for free at the current issue and see what you're missing.

There is more promotionla language and then hyperlinks that take you to the LVA site where you eventually are provided with two images of the current issue & two links (one for HTML / one for Flash). But, when you click on either link, you are presented with a copy of the July 2009 issue. I wrote back thanking them for the offer and laid out the above information. Hope they manage to fix this. As someone who has not become a subscriber so far, I'd like to take a look at the January issue for free.

Neil M.

#2

nemartin2002 wrote:

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I received a promotional email offer from "Las Vegas Advisor" that begins with this paragraph:

We're so proud of the January issue of the Las Vegas Advisor newsletter that we'd like to share it with everyone. So, even if you're not an LVA member, for the first time we're inviting you to take a look for free at the current issue and see what you're missing.

There is more promotionla language and then hyperlinks that take you to the LVA site where you eventually are provided with two images of the current issue & two links (one for HTML / one for Flash). But, when you click on either link, you are presented with a copy of the July 2009 issue. I wrote back thanking them for the offer and laid out the above information. Hope they manage to fix this. As someone who has not become a subscriber so far, I'd like to take a look at the January issue for free.

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Looks like this is fixed. Link is:
http://tinyurl.com/yhoqeqq

Scan down the page for a link to the Jan newsletter in either new flash or old html formats.

#3

Looks like this is fixed. Link is:

http://tinyurl.com/yhoqeqq

Hi Kathy:
It's now fixed, I just checked. Copy & paste the above link & it takes you to 1/10 issue

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#4

Actually, it's not really 100% fixed. It only gives you January 2010 if you
click on the "Flash" version.

If you select the HTML (old) version, the cover page will say January 2010.
But, if you click on any of the articles, they are all from the December
2009 issue.

Not a very good impression for potential new members.

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM, dougalou <dougalou@aol.com> wrote:

Looks like this is fixed. Link is:

http://tinyurl.com/yhoqeqq

Hi Kathy:
It's now fixed, I just checked. Copy & paste the above link & it takes you
to 1/10 issue

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#5

Thanks for all the responses & assistance. I've got it now (and it looks like the problem above has been straightened out too).

Neil M.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Luke Fuller <kungalooosh@...> wrote:

Actually, it's not really 100% fixed. It only gives you January 2010 if you click on the "Flash" version.

#6

Actually....no....it's not fixed (as of 12:00pm today).

Clicking on the "HTML version" link will take you to this page:
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/whyjoin-archiveissue-oldformat.cfm
will take you to a "Free Sample Issue" index page that says
"January 2010 - Vol 27 • Issue 1"

Clicking on any of the links on that page, such as 'entertainment'
will take you to this page:
http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/whyjoin-archivesection.cfm?Section=Entertainment
which contains an article from December 2009, with all kinds of
December information.

All of the links on the Index Page (that I tried) went to December 2009
articles. And, some of the links did not even work at all.

Pretty shitty web design. Very unprofessional. And....definitely
not impressive.

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:44 AM, nemartin2002 <nemartin2002@yahoo.com>wrote:

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Luke Fuller <kungalooosh@...> wrote:
> Actually, it's not really 100% fixed. It only gives you January 2010 if
you click on the "Flash" version.

Thanks for all the responses & assistance. I've got it now (and it looks
like the problem above has been straightened out too).

Neil M.

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