Digit Patron Helpdesk: Everything you wanted...

[FatBeing]

We were having a slight problem with the database, it seems. Please try your codes today - they should work.

[Arun Kumar]

Now I have successfully entered the code for May. Thanks Fatbeing

[Chirag]

Patron code worked. Thnx Fatbeing.

[Aries]

When do we expect to change or add new gifts that are worth the wait???????

I have 300 points and i am waiting to redeem but cant do it because i have all the gifts mentioned in there....

please understand

[alekh_khanna]

plz plz change the gifts.. add better ones...thanx...

[soham]

Fatbeing has ealier said that they are goiing to upgrade the Digit Patron section. May be they are going to upgrade it in June (Part of Anniversary celebration).

[kayote]

No upgrade .... nothing being done!!!

[Aniruddh]

Now I have successfully entered the code for May. Thanks a Ton Fatbeing

[damnthenet]

When the patron program had started, there used to be gifts for multiples of 5 (like 45, 55). Now, there are only gifts ending in zeroes. Unfortunately, I got struck with a ending 5 after redemption of one of my gifts. I'm not able to do anything with the five points. What shall I do with them when it is going to be a waste always?
Why shouldn't digit consider giving 5 more points for those with such probs?

[rohitm_001]

The gifts must be changed.
Why any Digit reader will require books on Photoshop or Flash when the Fast Track series covers or will cover such topics.
Giving away past Digit issues is also futile as we are having it once a while as e-mags on Digit CD/DVD. Plus, reading about tech news of a year or more back is also not much fun.

Rohit

[Aries]

The June Special Edition is going to cost Rs.200/- or more. It is also a Special 5th Anniversary Issue. Therefore instead of 20 points, I think we should get extra points

Like its 5th Anniversary so 50 Points

What Say?

[E.T.]

Great idea. Should be implemented.

[drsethi]

Please give old copies of SKOAR for Digit Patron programme

[Red_Baron]

I have a few suggestions:

1. Please display the number of points a subscriber has BEFORE he/she enters the code. This way we can find out if there is a problem in the database system or are the points really being added.

2. Please make some arrangement that the subscribers can book future issues using the points.

[aryayush]

Originally Posted by drsethi

Please give old copies of SKOAR for Digit Patron programme

I like this suggestion. Maybe the more recent ones!

[Aries]

Originally Posted by Red_Baron

I have a few suggestions:

1. Please display the number of points a subscriber has BEFORE he/she enters the code. This way we can find out if there is a problem in the database system or are the points really being added.

2. Please make some arrangement that the subscribers can book future issues using the points.

I second these suggestions. Would be nice if implemented

[sandeepkochhar]

I think that the people maintaining Digit Patron are real pachyderms. No matter what people say they are not going to give it an ear. The Digit Patron program was started as a marketing stunt by Jasubhai. This was a period when Chip was just launched and Jasubhai people were facing stiff competetion. So in order to gain loyality they started this **** called Digit Patron. I have nearly 250 points and I didn't find a single gift worth redeeming. I suggest (though I know it will not be listened as always) to stop this bull**** right now. My last hope of Digit Patron's upgradation is vanished with June 06 anniversary. If they r not upgrading the gifts now they'll never do that. STOP FOOLING PEOPLE. You are already overpriced @Rs125/- with 150/- and 200/- tags in b/w for special editions.

[raval_manoj]

Dear rohit & sandip - I totally agree with both of you.
Current patron scheme is not good at all, and items available for loyal readers need to be changed. Some hardware items should be there in place of unwanted back issues of various mags, or latest encyclopedia - game cds etc

My digit subscription ends this month. I received reminder to renew, but now I'm not going to renew my subscription any more because of such type of cheating.

hey i got a code in the last page of digit magazine saying gifts can be won. so where do i type these codes
plzzz

[damnthenet]

hey i got a code in the last page of digit magazine saying gifts can be won. so where do i type these codes
plzzz

Go to www.thinkdigit.com/digitpatron
Create an user ID for U
Log on with ur ID
Enter the CODE!!

<Read the Patron Help there to figure out the rest>

[redhat]

Originally Posted by tuxfan

Just one question to Digit Patrol Helpdesk.

Why are subscribers not getting automatic credit for patron? I feel that is something so obvious. Secondly, that will also stop one menace. There are a few newsstand owners who subscribe and then sell the copies in open market. No one bothers to read the words "subscriber copy, not for sale". If such copies do not have patron codes, no one will buy them!!

Any answers?

This will stop people from buying subscriber copies. If the member is registered, just add their points automatically. The code will still be there in the copies for the newsstand. Please do this. Good request by tuxfan.

A desperate change is req. in the digit patron gifts secton. No one wants old issues of digit and Skoar. Better offer original software with the consent of the distributors. Even hardware stuff will do great.

[wizrulz]

The thread has been started in dec 2004 ...nos of replies to 14 pages suggestions/request ...we can say nearly nil....so what r all expecting form such thread.....even 1 suggestion being implemented.......????
THIS thread itself is BIG joke on members
It has croosed 14 pages and howmany replies form DIGIT hardly 5...everyone is shouting suggestions any replies ...no..some of ur suggestion r good ..which i had suggested to digit patron section mailing them....still no improvment...suggestion r good if atleast a thou8 is gevn over them...but i am sorry to say that....DIGIT sleeps over such threads.....
It was told to me by one of mods when i tried to highlight some poinst wrt digit patron that mods cannot do anything ..digit admin should look after it...so how many time digit admin have gone thru this thread and replied to queries and suggestions????

with all the earlier digit issues available as the pdf's. i feel there is no use in redeeming my points for that. Moreover they dont have any DVD (just 2 plain CDs each).

And yes... once the digit guys gave me a faulty cd/dvd (april 2005). I asked for replacement at least 5 times. The reply "we have dispatched it" but it never arrived. (I wrote 2 times after this.. 3 times earlier).

hell I wasted my 100 Rs for a scrap paper (duh)

Sorry to go off-topic but I'm pissed off

[sameer.pur]

First Of All-
Remove all the current 20 gifts from the list.These Are not of any use.
Beside them provide hardware gifts,skoar issues etc.

[Raaabo]

@ Wizrulz: You need to calm down a bit. Breathe in, breathe out... repeat forever...

What do you want? A reply for every post? Should I start replying to every post acknowledging that I have read it? Would you really like to see a post from me after every member's post... saying "I have read your post"? [I could set up a script to do this you know ]

There are thousands of members on here and just 3 or 4 Digit employees on the forum, obviously we will post a lot less than members...

Mods are NOT employees of Digit or JDM, so PMing them about issues regarding the magazine is a waste of your time as well as theirs. Please contact fatbeing or Raaabo for Digit related issues.


@ everyone:
We're working on better patron gifts. Things take time. Remember that this is a bonus that NO OTHER MAGAZINE will give you. You buy other mags you just get the mag. you subscribe to other mags, you get a chance to win something as crappy as a graphics card or a computer table. At digit we've given people the chance to win Cars, bikes and other cool things. We're not perfect, and our patron gifts are not the talk of the town or anything, but they ARE FREE!

We'll make them better as time goes by, and we're sure you'll like the gifts then.

For those of you who are not entering their codes because they dont like the current set of gifts... what will you do when we change the gifts and you find yourself short by 200 points -- which you have already earned, had you only entered your code regularly?

Write in to help at jasubhai dot com if you face problems entering your code.

Raaabo

[Chirag]

^^
Gfx Card. Which mag?????????

[wizrulz]

yeah now i am calm as u have replied(atleast after a week ).....but if we keep on shouting suggestions and troubles here and if no one is replying how we r gona know if its falling on deaf ears..????
Atleast u can do is keep us posted the progress or ur thought process on which ur working so that if we find anything wrong (acc to our view) then we can suggest..isnt it?
There r thousands of members but..are thousnads of members replying to this SPECIAL thread???
Abt PM to mods...i agree i PMed mods..sorry for that..but just ask fatbeing if i had not Pm'ed him abt this??? So i am not completely at fault.....
Yeah we all agree this a bonus...but then it should had been helpful for whom u have started this ...that is the digit regular buyers or i can say SUBCRIBERS.....the aim was to reward the subscribers..isnt it(u can always deny this).....but the same subscribers when suggesting nothing is said that yes this is beeing implemented or is in process. >> liek auto entering the patron points for members(read subcribers) etc......
Ya waiting for teh gifts to get good...hope one day i will redeem my points

One more thing the link form digit patron site to this forum doesnt works

AND YES I EXPECT A REPLY

[vijay_7287]

i have redeemed this book on photoshop.. twice over with something like 100 points ... but stiil it didnt reach me .. how sad !!!

the first time i did it in the 1st week of december last year

and then some time back in june this year ... and guys have stiil kept me waitin !!!

[coolendra]

Guys... plz change the gifts... they have become so outdated... plz

[Raaabo]

No Digit Patron is NOT for subscribers only, and NOT for newstand buyers only. It's called patron because we want to reward regular readers of the magazine, doesn't matter whether you subscribe an get it for cheaper or pay more every month and buy it from a newsstand... It's quite simply our humble way of thanking our "Patrons". We will try and improve upon gifts soon, perhaps we need sponsors to help make the gifts better, and it is all being worked upon.

Raaabo