November BCM online now

[HighTechRedneck]

Good news!  The November BCM is online now.

Also please note that as part of the recent changes, BCM has new contact information:

The new phone is 714-799-0042.

The new address is:
7246 Garden Grove Blvd.
Westminster, CA 92683

The Contact Us system has been updated to direct questions/feedback to the new contacts.

Due to an error, contact form submissions since the transition may not have gone through.  That has been corrected.  If you have used the contact us page in the last week and not received a response and today's announcement of the new issue doesn't answer your question, please return to the Contact Us page and resubmit your question.

I am still a part of the forum, and will help out with web design projects, but all questions/feedback regarding the magazine or subscriptions need to be sent as per above.

[rv_safetyman]

Hi Mike - glad you are still hanging around.

When you go to busconversions.com and click on magazine and then click on "online edition" it asks for user login information.  I tried my normal forum login and that does not work.

What do we do to download.  Can you give a direct link?

Jim

[luvrbus]

Mine doesn't work either Jim I sent a pm they replied "will get back to you in 1 to 3 days" kinda sucks

good luck

[HighTechRedneck]

Jim & Clifford, "You have Mail". 

Clifford, the message you got was an automatic reply that confirms receipt of the question by the system and gives an outside estimate on reply time.  Sometimes repsonses are quick because someone is working at the time.  Other times it takes longer because BCM doesn't have a full time office staff.

[Busted Knuckle]

Hey Mikey glad to see that yer still help'n out.

I have never been able to navigate the online version.
  BK 

[Mex-Busnut]

I was able to download mine without any trouble, and can say you guys did a great job!

[Le Mirage]

The new address is:
7246 Garden Grove Blvd.
Westminster, CA 92683

What deception!

I'm just come back to my home in Quebec, Canada, after visiting an aunt at Villa Park, Orange county, Ca. I dreamed to meet BCM's adminitrators or Mike Kadleyz at this office (7246 Garden Grove Blvd.
Westminster). I saw nobody! I know, some busnut will say that in 2011 the offices are at home but...the address is not at home!

So, I thought to see MorseCreek bus too or some bus conversion (for sale or whatever)....Nothing! Only a dirt office like an dump station and two old MCI in the same condition that the office!

That seemed not serious this business!

My dream has drowning....

Sorry...

(sorry for my unperfect english...I'm a french canadian who try to speak english and love bus conversion!...)

[belfert]

Why is it deception just because nobody was in the office?  Bus Conversions Magazine is not a full time operation.  There are many small businesses that don't have a full time presence at their office.

[Jeremy]

I think he means there wasn't even an office....but certainly there is no question of deception, and I imagine that isn't really what Le Mirage meant to say anyway.

This situation is a bit of an issue with my business - I frequently get people 'phoning up to ask what our opening hours are because they want to come to our shop and read the magazines (probably as an alternative to actually buying any). Even when it's explained to them some seem utterly flummoxed by the concept that a business can be 'online' and 'mail order' only, and convinced that it must mean there is something shady or underhand going on.

Jeremy

[Le Mirage]

You know what?

So, I wanted to pay my subscrition (renewly) «directly» on place and to meet the people behind this business.

And then, I remember, many years ago, on MAK's pictures magazine, around 1998, showing many bus conversion for sale or «in progress» on the parking...I thought to see the same thing and to meet guys with the same passion that me...



 

[Busted Knuckle]

Gaëtan,

First off let me make it clear that I'm neither an advocate nor a adversary of BCM's founder Mike Kadleyz. I have had several dealings with him and they all were fair deals.

Now as for your expectations of Mike's operation. I am sorry to say that you did find the location of Mike's former and once again office.

Mike probably closed the office when he handed over the control of the magazine to Mike Sullivan.
Mike publicly said on this forum he had scaled back his involvement in the buses on all fronts.
He has other business interests than just BCM, Moose Creek Cabins and his bus sales.

Having delivered buses to that location for him I know that is where his office and storage lot were/are. Some of the work on buses was done there and some off site.

Now also knowing that he had several Moose Creek Cabins that took him quite sometime to sell, and the current market I'd venture to say that he is only building them on order now.

As for the couple dirty old MCI's sitting out back, well there sits a couple buses for sale or the next Moose which ever comes first.

Not all operations are huge corporations with mega $ properties and inventories sitting around collecting dust while mega staffs build more to have sit next to the current stock.
  BK 

[Le Mirage]

OK.....sorry for my post!

[Rick 74 MC-8]

I know nothing about the operation of
the magazine or Mike. But if you really want a disappointment go see liberty coach in north chicago illinois lol


                Rick 74mc-8

[Busted Knuckle]

OK.....sorry for my post

Gaëtan,
My intentions were not to make you ashamed of your post, nor defend Mike.

But merely to point out that a misinterpretation of your expectations verses reality of what Mike's operation was/is does not necessarily constitute fraud.
  BK 

[Le Mirage]

OK.....sorry for my post

what Mike's operation was/is does not necessarily constitute fraud.

Ohhhh there is a mistake. I have never supposed an irregularity (you write «fraud») in my post. Only signaled my disappointment...

For Liberty coach...I will not go to see...my heart is «fragile»