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Sick of freeskier mag

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jorb.co
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i just received the first issue of powder and freeskier in the mail... (yay) and so i unwrap it and as always in freeskier, there is the lange girl poster with skis on the back right? well it used to be like stickers and posters and the occasional dvd, but this and last year, its been that poster in the buyers guide, and then some ski utah stickers in january or something. this is stupid!! i might not even renew my subscription and stick with powder because it has better stories and pictures!! im very dissapointed.

Aug 25 2009 5:27PM
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Dizzyskier
Posts: 364 - Karma: 114
It's a fantastic magazine if you like looking at ads of Peter Olenick
Aug 25 2009 5:35PM
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jibjunkie
Posts: 3807 - Karma: 191
and the dudemont
Aug 25 2009 5:37PM
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GnarthVader
Posts: 38 - Karma: 10
i have a subsciption to freeskier and i never get a new issue when im suposed. to anyone els have that problem?
Aug 25 2009 5:46PM
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DR.SHRED
Posts: 2134 - Karma: 503
i havent got my issue yet
Aug 25 2009 5:52PM
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GnarthVader
Posts: 38 - Karma: 10
thats what im saying. i think its a good magazine though.
Aug 25 2009 5:58PM
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abc8tr8we98g
Posts: 498 - Karma: 25
last year i only received 2 out of 6 issues...it was a bummer but i got a free year subscription this year for it...
Aug 25 2009 6:15PM
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A-Lee
Posts: 256 - Karma: 19
same
Aug 25 2009 6:17PM
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Funnel
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Freeskier is terrible.  Lots of ads etc. 
Aug 25 2009 6:20PM
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Dan-Man
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I quit subscribeing several years ago, when it was the same 10 dudes who got pics and stories in every mag. back in the dayfreeskier was way sick!! they had that series where they hit up 3 mountains every year and did shoots, and then would cover each shoot as a story in the man, i miss those dayz. back then they also covered up and comers.  nostalga i guess.

freeskier really needs to step up it's game.

Aug 25 2009 6:23PM
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Shlogan
Posts: 4942 - Karma: 430
ya, seriously freeskier what's the issue?
ba dom bom chi
Aug 25 2009 6:46PM
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00000000
Posts: 11075 - Karma: 82,508
SBC SKIER

problem solved
Aug 25 2009 7:33PM
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EastCoast315
Posts: 3136 - Karma: 137

Skiing magazine is dank shit. Best IMO

Aug 25 2009 7:35PM
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Lemuel
Posts: 14477 - Karma: 10,515
I don't remember any dvd's or shit loads of stickers and posters coming with a freeskier mag.  You must have been lucky.  I may subscribe to powder next year seeing as my 3 free years of subscriptions is ending haha.
Aug 25 2009 7:35PM
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Magnetic
Posts: 845 - Karma: 229
I was a bit disappointed i blew through the whole thing in like 15 minutes with reading the "articles"
Aug 25 2009 9:51PM
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invader7
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i agree it has wayyy better stories and articles
Aug 25 2009 9:55PM
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JTL
Posts: 2275 - Karma: 338
all i know is that i looked up my subscription online and it said i am subscribed until 2014. and i don't know how.... i subscribed for a year last year and i sent in a  " one free year " card...
Aug 25 2009 9:58PM
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mBall
Posts: 1690 - Karma: 2,827
i got a subscription in february and havent recieved one issue...
Aug 25 2009 9:59PM
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Panchuk
Posts: 1610 - Karma: 355
i lol'd
Aug 25 2009 10:01PM
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Lemuel
Posts: 14477 - Karma: 10,515
Do people no research this stuff?  The last issue is the February issue, and like most other magazines, they come the previous month (January) and since that is the last issue, you haven't gotten one.  You know there are only 6 issues a year right?
Aug 25 2009 10:03PM
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~~JEFF~~
Posts: 1045 - Karma: 301
i subscribed to powder mag last year, and only recieved the october mag in late march,
GAY.
Aug 25 2009 10:07PM
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Ryan*
Posts: 1827 - Karma: 1,195
Powder's special edition McConkey memorial mag was really great, and the buyer's guide in it was pretty good too
Aug 25 2009 10:39PM
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polka.yardSAIL
Posts: 459 - Karma: 8
same!
except my subscription comes free with my pass anyway :D
Aug 25 2009 10:53PM
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barberdude
Posts: 520 - Karma: 140
I've been getting freeskier since it came out for free. I don't know what the deal is, because I don't always buy movies that include the subscriptions but some how they keep coming, actually to my parents house.

Though I will say, after reading the Shane McConkey tribute issue of Powder Mag, I want to get a subscription to Powder. I read that magazine cover to cover and thought it was great. I haven't had a subscription to Powder in over 6 years, but I think its time to go back. They just need to bring back the superpark issue!

Aug 25 2009 10:59PM
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PhilboydStudge
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I think Powder is so much better than Freeskier. Way too many ads, and it doesn't seem like they really even consider the companies that don't pay them money
Aug 25 2009 11:00PM
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DBeck
Posts: 1275 - Karma: 63
a freeskier subscription is like a dollar a year or something... why do you complain.. yeah its not all that great, but i get it anyways cuz it pretty much costs nothing so why not support the one freestlye ski magazine, even if it is pretty dissapointing sometimes.
Aug 25 2009 11:41PM
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caucasian_chad
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uhhhhhhhhhh.....
Aug 25 2009 11:42PM
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bootleg_BEN
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Isnt it only like !! dollars at first and the 3 to renew?

So why complain it has ski stuff for super cheap?
Aug 26 2009 12:53AM
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R.Fahey
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Because it doesn't have to suck.   Why settle for a shitty product when they could just make a good one? 

Aug 26 2009 1:00AM
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bootleg_BEN
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That is true, but i enjoy cuz i get to read about skiing.

But if it was like 20 or 30 dollars then it would be a different story.
Aug 26 2009 1:01AM
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Shane_McWannabe
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freeskier has sucked since day one. The very first issue ever with Johnny Moseley on the cover sucked and every issue since then has sucked.....

Aug 26 2009 3:14AM
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Johnolerud
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Aug 26 2009 9:49AM
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SkierX
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Honestly, there is a reason they offer such deals on subscriptions. A magazine worth actually buying would not be a buck a year for a subscription.

If I had to pay more than $10 a year for it, I would certainly not be a subscriber to Freeskier.
Aug 26 2009 9:54AM
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jorb.co
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AGREED
Aug 26 2009 1:35PM
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jorb.co
Posts: 2581 - Karma: 468
well up here in canadia, its like 25 bucks plus s/h
Aug 26 2009 1:46PM
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ashamedkrew
Posts: 1194 - Karma: 424

i honestly don't understand how people can complain so much about a magazine, they put a heck of a lot of work into it and its just fine

Aug 26 2009 3:23PM
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Lemuel
Posts: 14477 - Karma: 10,515
not into the buyers guide they don't.  They used to when there was a legit review for every single piece of gear in the magazine.
Aug 26 2009 4:19PM
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jksl
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i don't even pay the dollar for it, don't need that shit cluttering up my coffee table.
Aug 26 2009 4:30PM
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wrenegade
Posts: 6631 - Karma: 41
Ski Journal FTW.
Aug 26 2009 4:50PM
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Yung_Gnarley
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i enjoy that magazine much
Aug 26 2009 8:34PM
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*Nickdel*
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i paid for a subscription last year and never got 1  issue
Aug 26 2009 8:42PM
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Malczyk
Posts: 1433 - Karma: 1,880
agreed... Ski Journal focuses on quality, timeless content that can be enjoyed for years to come. If you dont have a subscription I reccommend asking for one for you birthday or jsut omwing a few lawns and getting one, you won't regret it!
Aug 26 2009 8:49PM
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Afeld
Posts: 3516 - Karma: 84
same thing
I am not pleased with the way the treat subscribers
Aug 26 2009 8:49PM
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Sinuous
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ED HARDY GLOVES FTW !!11!!
Aug 26 2009 9:03PM
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*stew
Posts: 488 - Karma: 124
i always get freeskier and powder and have always liked freekier a little bit better but know i have realized how much better powder is... powder ftw!!
Aug 26 2009 10:58PM
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7X
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Freeskier really has sold out to the corporate world. I hope someone from freeskier sees this and realizes that they need to get back to their roots.  I just bought a NZ skier and I could believe how much better it was than freeskier. 
Aug 26 2009 11:00PM
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*Dos*Planker*
Posts: 2983 - Karma: 168
ya sometimes mine dont even come
Aug 26 2009 11:15PM
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niels043
Posts: 814 - Karma: 184
so many ads so little content, we all know bills gotta get paid but honestly... where is the line drawn? i'd much prefer a lower budget mag with lots of great content over freeskier.

why can't someone win the lotto and give matt levinthal and the guys from freeze a few million to do something sick
Aug 27 2009 12:47AM
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Walkawalka
Posts: 314 - Karma: 43
yeah ski journal is so awesome. The photography is really good and the paper that it is printed on is higher quality, very few ads and it has interesting articles about the entire ski world, there are alot of amateurs ripping and its nice to see for a change.
Aug 27 2009 1:04AM
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Dustin.
Posts: 13839 - Karma: 7,704
I'm so ashamed of the magazine that I have a perfectly good Freeskier die cut that has just been sitting on my desk for the last 6 months.  I don't want it on any of my stuff.
Aug 27 2009 1:30AM
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Leeyum
Posts: 1285 - Karma: 168
freeskier is an excuse for a few people slob on Clarke, Willis, Pete O and Dumont's knob. I have concluded if you are pro and hang in Boulder you Will be in the magizine. Let's see some features in the park ski world of Japan, South America Norway, France etc....... There is wayyy more to skiing than Keystone and it's local boys. It's quite a sad excuse for a mag. I feel like they fail at every project they start, Road Trip Challenge, movie tour blogs etc... I believe the mag could be sick it just needs some new ideas to help it out. e
Aug 27 2009 1:31AM
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