Me too. I’ve got my first edition from Sept 1992, with a few more years until around 1999. Since then, I’ve recycled most.I have a few from the mid nineties
discool
Well-Known Member
Does this mean that back issues will now become collectors items???
Hopefully
as i have the first five years in the in their annual binders in my loft. I did have fifteen years of them and so advertised on eBay but no offers, so ten years of them went to the tip.I went to all their shows from the first one and until the year the Great Storm arrived and the trade stands went flying and sadly where a stall holder died.
Gord Wedman
Well-Known Member
Putting the whole thing together is done on computers so you would think continuing with the existing digital edition would be possible but I guess there may not be enough money in it to pay all the bills. Would be nice if they gave me a refund....
Hippo
Lord Hippo
I wonder if LRO just needs to find it's feet more in the digital world, to be able to sell more online copies. It may be they don't have enough cash to continue creating the content. Or need some financial backing. Or another publisher may take it on. I remember when it stopped it's forum. Peeps were shocked but no other mag provided the same for free. It's a competitive world.
discool
Well-Known Member
The last LRO mag I looked at was June 2021 purchased at the airport …@£6.99
for a 3.5 hour flight, but was full of stuff on series LRs and Defenders plus a little bit bit on a battered disco 1 in Greece so not a lot to see magazine for the remaining 3 hours.LRM was full of Defender and off road stuff when I last looked many years ago.
E~FENDER
Active Member
Likewise … just not at Newbury - hope you found some bargains!
Simon Perks
Active Member
Me too very sad, so as I live in Switzerland reading the online version for me was the only way and I have just received the "end of life" notice. I wonder what happens to all the project vehicles the team have bought over the years. I grew up near Dunsfold and was shocked to see Dunsfold landrovers close and now this .. what is going on?
Alpine greetings
Simon
Alpine greetings
Simon
rich28uk
Well-Known Member
Bought a lot of Lro magazines since I had my first Landy, Fl2, since carried on with my disco 2 and now l332, with the occasional break in between when i didn’t have a Landy, as said a lot was old stuff, now and again had some Freelander 2 content, think couple of times had l322 stuff, and disco 2, cost kept going up so it averaged £5-6, no longer got any free item with it, and it got more and more full of adverts, I get there income is from people buying it and advertisers but when there on every page and a good half the magazine is adverts it’s expensive.
The reliance on adverts ruins everything
rich28uk
Well-Known Member
Absolutely, if they had the option £5 with ads (as in how it was- full of them) or say £8 without I’m sure most would pay £8 for ad free, don’t mind the odd one or back page etc but when it became 2/3 per page then after half way was just adverts. Basically £5-6 a magazine for some outdated Landy stuff and ton of ads, no wonder it went downhill for them.
That's a bit presumptuous
