Horseplayer Magazine

[The Skeptic]

What ever happened to Horseplayer Magazine?

It was a great magazine, glossy, high quality....website no longer working.

Is it no longer around?

Sorry, but I was cleaning out my closet and wanted to renew it and can't find anything online really about it.

Oh, and here are my past issues for sale on eBay.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/140846611038?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Auction closes tonight...

[Tom]

Magazine is still around.
Typically late, usually thin.
Nowhere near the promise it showed when it came out.
Probably 25% is devoted to horse players. The big names no long write article for them.

The website has been down forever. I suspect they are trying to win enough money at the track to hire someone to start it for them! :rolleyes: :D

The occasional good article makes me keep it, but I know I am paying far too much for the product.

[Dave Schwartz]

Without a website, how do they get new subscribers?

[Overlay]

Without a website, how do they get new subscribers?
Probably the old-fashioned way, with a subscription post-card in each issue

[Dave Schwartz]

That wouldn't be NEW subscribers, then, would it?

[chazz]

If anybody is interested, there is a digital Horse Racing Magazine on line.


www.issuu.com/stridemagonline (http://www.issuu.com/stridemagonline)

[Overlay]

That wouldn't be NEW subscribers, then, would it?
I understand your point, but I believe that I've seen the magazine in various retail venues from time to time. I wouldn't think that it distributes exclusively by subscription, does it?

[Overlay]

As an added thought, the magazine might run ads in various racing-related periodicals that would include a toll-free number or an order form that one could use to subscribe. (However, I wouldn't know whether the magazine does that or not.)

[Dave Schwartz]

I wasn't aware there was a number to call.

My marketing friends call this the "sales prevention" approach.

:lol:

[Overlay]

I wasn't aware there was a number to call.

My marketing friends call this the "sales prevention" approach.

:lol:
"Sales prevention" would be if the number weren't toll-free, wouldn't it? :)

[Dave Schwartz]

Well, I don't know because I can't seem to find one. LOL

[Tom]

*bump*

Anyone heard anything from HP magazine?
I think the last time I got one was the BC.
The web site is still down.

I want my magazines or a refund.
Anyone else being stiffed?
I am going to file a complaint with the State Attorney General.
Suggest anyone do the dame...maybe some will go to the paddock and hand the jerk a summons.

[MightBeSosa]

All horseplayer magazines die broke.

Except for American Turf, which for some reason is eternal
http://www.thetimecapsule.com/folders/Joe%2096/4.7.111.jpg

[McCarron]

I've written for HP Magazine 6-7 times over the years. Over the past few years I've had a real hard time getting paid. The website is down because the webmaster wasn't getting paid either. It's a shame as it had promise...

[wiffleball whizz]

Foxwoods gives out American turf for free...

Me and my friend are seniors in high school or a year afterwards I pick up a copy of American turf And they had horses to watch and best bets....well one night I got the magazine and to be honest im not sure who paid for the magazine but 6 MTP at penn national there was a best bet at 5/2....had $60 to my name and bet $30 win.....horse was nowheresville lousiana

[Robert Goren]

When they figured out you had bet half of your life saving on the horse, they stiffed.

[rrpic6]

*bump*

Anyone heard anything from HP magazine?
I think the last time I got one was the BC.
The web site is still down.

I want my magazines or a refund.
Anyone else being stiffed?
I am going to file a complaint with the State Attorney General.
Suggest anyone do the dame...maybe some will go to the paddock and hand the jerk a summons.

I know I wrote this before (so many HorsePlayer Mag threads). I got stiffed a very long time ago, almost ten years. I was able to actually talk to someone there via telephone. Some smartass woman told me that the Mailman probably stole my magazine. I told her I was a Mailman and that was truly ignorant. I asked to speak with Tom Quigley and she said he's too busy to talk to me. I did e-mail and write to Quigley many times, with no response. I do like the Paddock idea!

RR

[wiffleball whizz]

[QUOTE=Robert Goren]When they figured out you had bet half of your life saving on the horse, they stiffed

HAHAHAHAHAHA