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Old 12-04-2015, 10:39 PM
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Well, sour grapes here too. I used to subscribe, but lost interest and let it go. They are not very savey marketers, I'd say. I don't care how small the market we represent.
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You don't want to get me started about the excellence buyers guide.
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Yeah, probably just as well that we're not in there, they never valued the 928, and the recent prices would just guarantee more gnashing of teeth for us. I take it as a sign of exclusivity and pride not to be in it.
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According to the cover, it's only from 356 to 918... They forgot the 924, 944, 928, 959, and a bunch of others
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Yeah, probably just as well that we're not in there, they never valued the 928, and the recent prices would just guarantee more gnashing of teeth for us. I take it as a sign of exclusivity and pride not to be in it.
FWIW, their Corvette buyers guide overlooks some of the obvious, too. It's not much better...

Guides, written by those who need them instead.
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More people saw this on CNN Money than have heard of Excellence.
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/autos/2...ic-cars/3.html
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It's all because I cancelled my subscription. Now they probably don't have any 928 readers at all...
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Originally Posted by M. Requin
It's all because I cancelled my subscription. Now they probably don't have any 928 readers at all...
Excellence is my favorite magazine. In fact I've let all my other subscriptions go.
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Originally Posted by Daniel5691
so what you are saying it should be renamed as

Poser Magazine Supporters

otherwise known as

PMS

???
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928sg:

LOL, I think probably, ALL of the "Excellence" staff secretly drive 928s, exclusively, and they are conspiring to keep the 928 prices LOW ! They only want us to think they all drive a Prius.
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In another world, another journalist who I think may be a freelancer now, wrote a "top 10" piece for the worst 10 of that marque. Funny thing is, the guy physically would not be comfortable in ANY sports car, and yet criticized many of them for their features and attributes.

Now that guy has a very unique name, and I used to read his stuff in another magazine when he was a staffer. Since that was the same era of the car(s) he criticized, I really wonder how many of those cars he ACTUALLY DROVE :roll eyes:

As I suspect with many, they hear things, and then write. No time to gather actual facts, or access to the cars.
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If we don't give them love, who will? Perhaps Excellence has been reading too many of this forum's posts when some of us run down high asking prices...



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