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The below is a message I'm posting on behalf of Mike Schneider, CEO, Affinity
To all Open Roads Forum members:
I’d like to take a moment and express my deep appreciation for your participation on these forums. As an avid reader of these pages, I am constantly inspired by the depth and breadth of knowledge so many of you express here, and by the generous ways in which you share your insights. The commitment you show to the RV community encourages me, my staff, and our many fine moderators, to continue to invest time and effort towards making sure these forums are superior.
As you know, the RV marketplace has been faced with multiple challenges during the past year, some of which are ongoing. I want to clearly state that Affinity is committed as ever to responding to and overcoming these challenges. By listening, learning, focusing, and putting our members’ needs first, we know that we can continue to serve the RV community in the manner in which it deserves.
Affinity has proudly served the RV community for many, many years with the utmost in integrity and quality. Some of our products, in fact, have been around for decades, such as the Good Sam Club at 40+ years, Trailer Life at 60+ years and our granddaddy, Woodall’s, about to celebrate its 75th anniversary. During that time we’ve learned that we must constantly keep up with the changing marketplace and listen to you as we keep our offerings relevant and current.
As we strive to improve and innovate in the upcoming months you may have noticed and will continue to find some minor changes or additions to some of the portals of the forum. Please know that these upcoming changes are intended to both maximize the quality of content on the forums while balancing our need to cover our costs of operation. We endeavor to continue to provide you free access to these forums, and we are able to do so thanks to your patronage of the RV.net family of products and services such as Good Sam Club, Trailer Life Directory, Trailer Life Magazine, MotorHome Magazine, Camp Club USA, and Woodall's to name just a few.
Again, I personally thank you for your patronage of these fine brands. I am proud we are able to provide you with such forums to express your wisdom, wit, and passion for all things RV, and I anticipate a bright future for RVing.
Mike Schneider,
CEO, Affinity
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DOTLDaddy
Camp Canine, Union, MO. U.S.A.
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I hope I am reading between the lines incorrectly, but as much as I love RV.NET, I will not pay a subscription fee. I can live with the pop-up adds and other distractions, but please do not make this a pay site. IMHO, the membership would drop precipitously if that happens.
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Spike88
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Oh Gosh DOTLDaddy I hope you are wrong.
Although I do not know any of the people on this forum I feel as though I have shared a huge part of my heart and hopefully some of my widsom with them over the past few years.
As campers we also are animal lovers and we have all opened up our hearts to helping pets that needed us, opened our hearts up to those that needed it and poured our tears over our keyboards as we wrote about our pain to complete strangers but somehow it doesnt matter as we know that some one understands.
The advice that is given here has certainly helped all of us and in return we have found homes for those strays that appear, got animals to other parts of the country to a new home just by asking for help etc. This forum is a network of strangers doing the best they can for animals.
I am very proud to be a part of this forum and hope that we all will be able to continue it in the future as the animals need us as a group.
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DOTLDaddy
Camp Canine, Union, MO. U.S.A.
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Spike88 wrote:Oh Gosh DOTLDaddy I hope you are wrong.
... As do I.
All I know is that as a dues paying Good Sam member, Emergency Road Service member, and subscriber to Trailer Life magazine, I would think twice about paying yet another fee.
Like I said, I hope I am wrong as well . . . . . .
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dturm
Munster, IN
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There are NO plans for charging for forum access. You will probably notice a different format to the forum page. Final plans are still in the works, but there will probably be adds along the side, but no pop-up adds.
Doug
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Y-Guy
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DOTLDaddy, I don't think you have anything to worry about as far as subscription fees - at least nothing I've heard of.
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Little Kopit
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I read it as PR thing to get us ready for change. & I see that as a good thing.
It's about time for some PR common sense.
Those items of:
- sticking the Good Sam Logo up without asking our permission to compare email records in both data bases &
- Creating this 'hey join up' if you're reading without having logged in. & anyone who has done forums and checked on how their thread is doing can tell that there are many more lurkers than active particpators.
I see both of those as so obviously wrong stuff that they must have been thought up by head office types who don't do forums, don't know privacy laws and hang out in other than nature.
& maybe it's nice too see a sterotypical basic PR thing.
* This post was
edited 11/05/09 04:57am by Little Kopit *
& I, I took the road less travelled by.
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