Looking forward to seeing how this works. I've had reasonable success with contact mag ads recently, so back in September decided to give the Vivastreet publication a go. I signed up and paid for the 2nd edition which I was told would be out soon - I'd just made the deadline. They told me they'd send me a mock up of the ad when it was ready, as well as a copy of the magazine.
Apparently VS tried to phone me the day after I made payment, to tell me their publishers had gone bust so that edition wasn't going out. About 1 month later I'd not heard or seen anything, no copy of anything. So I emailed them, and that was when I found out that it had not gone out. They did then send me a copy of the advert, which looked great, I am very impressed with it, apart from a typo error - they'd typed the name of a town twice. Too late to change it for the November edition I've been told, they have however offered me a free advert in the December edition to make up for it.
Considering that I've previously exchanged emails with them, I'm surprised they didn't email me when they couldn't speak to me on the phone, and that I was just left after paying a reasonably hefty sum to them.
Me and VS just don't seem to have an easy time.