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paying to advertise on fiat 126 good idea or not?
nrg19uk:
paying to advertise on fiat 126 good idea or not?
slater:
Definatly not. :x
Its suppose to be a club ffs! I dont think ive ever come across a forum that charges you to post an advert, expecialy one that has very very few members such as this. Also i dont think ive come across a club that charges you to post an advert on there site/newsletter etc.
Its going to kill the forsale sections of the forum. Why are people going to pay ?5 to adverties on a small forum when they could put it on Ebay for less and have it exposed to way more people? it will just lead to less people advertising their parts etc which will just make it harder to get hold of stuff you need. The forsale section is a big part of the forums appeal to outsiders btw so you shouldent take it away.
It comes across as very greedy and is not giving the club a positive image
Wheres the money going? to the club to the forum or what? is there a money problem going on? bandwidth cost too high or something??
Its not such a bad idea on the front page but i stil think its a bit dogey tbh.
Sorry for getting pissed off but its a bad move :shock:
Chris Lakin:
Hi there, the reason I have done this is to help keep the site alive I cant afford out of my own pocket at times to keep the site going. Internet web space, domain name, we only have a few members so far, and when I was sending out the t-shirts with membership I was losing allot of money.
I?m just about to upgrade the website from a web starter package to a professional to allow us to keep the forum. Again more money!
I thought it would be nice to advertise your car on here, and actually your wrong about ebay, if you sell a car i.e. for ?500 you have to pay an initial insertion fee then a final value fee. What?s a ?5er for an unlimited amount of time, by the way other clubs do charge! I don?t know if your a member of the 500 club but they charge in there news letter.
and This is free for anything under the value of ?10? This website goes out to all, unlike the 500 club's newsletter which just goes out to members! so a much wider scope for advertising!
We need more members to keep it all going, we have the BBQ coming up, and to make the club decent, a little bit of money is needed.
I don?t believe your a member, please correct me if im wrong. I spend most of my hours on this site to keep it interesting and good to provide content to help all 126 owners (not just the members)
Theres really no need to get "pissed off" about this, find a copy of the 500 club news magazine and at the back you will see, non members have to pay for an advertisment!
We have never had a good forsale section, so this is why I?m taking steps to makesure we get one, one car has already sold through the site. It?s you who is giving the idea a negative image, and making an issue of it.
Regards
Chris
fiatfsm:
Hey come on lets keep this forum friendly! We dont want to see arguing like other forums, I can see why Chris has charged for ads and personally cant see many takers for it. The club needs money and this comes from membership fees... basically whats needed is a real hard drive to recruit members... its always hard in the early days though. Thing is, as someone pointed out to me recently, apart from the shirt and sticker what does a member get for his ?16? Basically a non member gets access to all the forum as does a member, a member really doesnt benefit at present. I joined because I want to see a UK 126 club thrive and want to see 126s out at shows etc. We should be urging people to get out to shows and put on displays of our cars etc. As I said its hard and it costs so, everyone join up and support the club.
Chris Lakin:
i cant see many takers now either after all this negative talk!! Actually you get more than the 500 club i made sure of that!! all i got was a welcome letter an a sticker when i joined the fiat 500 club.
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