How Come No OGR Magazines at Barnes and Noble

Heck, we don't even have a Barns & Noble anymore.

The local one has a competing magazine for O scale, which sells quite well. But it doesn't cover three-rail at all.

Don,

FWIW I bugged the heck out of our Barnes and Noble about 18 months ago. So much so that they did carry it for a while. When I couldn't pick up my usual anymore, they stopped carrying it. If all else fails, be a pest ask, ask ask!

If you have not tried this, I often see at B&N, OGR in the transportation section with the mags about 1 to 1 trains rather than in the hobby or modeling section.  Good luck. 

That's one thing with these big box book stores, particular hobby magazines can be just about anywhere depending on the store-- with model trains, with real trains, with other transportation--mostly cars, with crafts and hobbies.  The better ones have a full time magazine person, the others a part time or series of part timers.

OGR is sold in the vast majority of Barnes & Noble Stores. They may have been sold out, or that particular store may not carry it.

Rich, is it sold there or just read there by the cheapskates that I threw out my store for reading and not buying

Rich, I check even though I get mine in the mail. I've never seen one so I guess there's no interest in O gauge on the island. I did see it in the Oahu stores. Don

I bought several issues of O Gauge RR at the Knoxville,Tn store last year.I have not been back since Christmas this year however.

Those were the days before a Kindle and a Tablet can pull up a book. In Chula Vista they closed theirs a couple months ago.

It's just a rumor, but I've heard that you can send a check to OGR and they'll send you a copy every month.  It's not as much fun as going to Barnes & Noble, but it's more reliable.

B&N can't keep it on the shelf!  OGR selling faster than Playboy! 

Sometimes, I will purchase extra copies at P&D Hobby Shop,

Fraser, Michigan

Use them as gifts.

Gary 

• Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway

 Not trains, but another hobby. We sealed a few mag.s with food-savers, or in mag. sized "comic" sleeves, for the on the rack, and kept unpackaged copies under the counter.

We would swap them at checkout time, and return the package to the rack.

 I was asked to stop looking at one in the same shop before I worked there. So I went outside and brought my copy in (I was using it to reference a part number to save him time because it was very busy ).

I was much friendlier doing his job later   

Yeah, we had one guy who came in every Saturday, would take the moms chair into the book and magazine section and stay there for hours reading magazines. One day I walked in and asked him for the chair, he stood up and I dragged it to the bsck room right in front of him. i haven't seen him since

If you don't see OGR at your local Barnes & Noble ask to speak to the newsstand lead and tell them you'd like them to stock it. If you know of others besides you who would buy copies tell them that too. It varies from store to store. At the store where I worked they only carry Classic Toy Trains; however I stopped by the Chesapeake store earlier this month and they had CTT, OGR, and also O Scale Trains.

My wife has me booked on an (8) day cruise.  Paper may be good, I don't think most of those electronic devices will work. 

Have seen a lot of "readers" at the local hobby shop.

Cost to plastic wrap them? Would discourage reading rather than purcahsing.

Nope. Most cruise ships don't have wi-fi at all. My wife and I went on a week-long Alaska cruise in May (we went on Norwegian but they're all pretty much the same) and you should have seen the reactions of people who couldn't use their cell phones for anything other than taking photos.

You say that until you find the plastic wrap stuffed between the magazines slots and at least one of each of the plastic wraped magazines has been opened

Yep

Yeah, I've seen that plenty of times at various book stores over the years. Many British magazines come in wrappers for some reason.

There's a flipside to this, in that many hobby shops I've seen in my lifetime have had all the magazines and book wrapped up tight. I don't buy any publications with no idea of the content. And some stores get downright jerky if you even dare to ask to see the inside of one of those $60+ books that are wrapped up.

For the life of me, I don't get why a seller can't understand that you want to know what a book looks like before you buy it!

But Matt, I do get your point. Thumbing through to see if you want is one thing. Sitting down and reading it cover-to-cover with no intention to ever buy is something totally different.

That's why we didn't wrap them all.

It only detours the smarter, more caring 3/4 of the population.

"Momma always said, you cant fix stupid"

Cost? 10 mag's monthly, two quarterly- 15 minutes spread out, and a buck or two a month in bags, no pressure in upkeep if slammed. Some distributors used to offer sealed mag.s also. Extra cost of that I don't have a clue about anymore.  

i don't mind if somebody checks out a mag before buying one or before buying something but we get people who just read me and never buy anything. It's ridiculous and irritating. Not nearly as irritating as the guys who return stuff that the bought online and it was broken.

I can always find it at the Barnes and Noble on Hilton Head Island. If you are vacationing down this way, stop off and you'll have reading material for your time on the beach.