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April 11, 2006
Getting value for your money
We'd love to know how much money the Bleeding Edge column has saved for its readers over the years. We suspect it's in the millions. Take this morning's email from a Green Guide reader who went shopping for a BenQ FP202W monitor after our recent column:
I priced the BenQ monitor at Harvey Norman at QV in Melbourne during the week. The sales rep was very knowledgeable -”You want the model referred to in Bleeding Edge!” However they want ~ $950 for it. I think your column referred to a price quite a bit lower than this – care to inform me?We've had a couple of e-mails from readers who were able to use that column to get wide-screen computing on a budget and are loving it. And yes, we passed on the details to the reader, as a result of which he'll be saving a few hundred dollars. From just one column.
We spend untold hours making sure that the column isn't just a review of a piece of software or hardware, or an opinion dashed off in an hour or two, which is what you get from most technology columns. Bleeding Edge is full of useful tips and hints and resources that will save readers time, money and frustration. We spend untold more hours - and hard cash - providing this blog and the forum for readers. We could make a lot more money if we just dashed Bleeding Edge off in half a day, didn't respond to e-mails, didn't provide the blog and the forum, and took on some well-paying freelance work. Instead, we prefer to keep the faith with our readers.
We're asking readers now, to keep the faith with Bleeding Edge. For just $25 a year, you can have the column e-mailed to you. You can get bonus columns and more information. You can even ask us where we found those prices that we come up with, from reliable vendors.
Why not email us at subscriptions@bleedingedge.com.au for the details?
Posted by cw at April 11, 2006 10:01 AM
Comments
Charles, why don't you put a "Subscribe Here" button on the site in a prominent position rather than having people seeking out details by email? Is it a technical issue or something other?
Posted by: Blackwatch at April 11, 2006 01:07 PM