Originally posted by Terry Green:
Originally posted by mark Willoughby:
I'm just curious what do you guys do with the 30 bucks a year that you collect in classified fees?
We finance an island in the Bahamas [/b]
yep, right. can't wait to vacation there real soon. think my wait's gonna be a long one, though .... :rolleyes:
Here's where sponsor and contributing member dollars go - to keep Trad Gang a FREE and open public forum.Trad Gang is dedicated to the promotion and preservation of traditional bowhunting. No Trad Gang member is ever asked or told that a fee is required to participate in the conversations, to both share and absorb all things within the periphery of traditional bowhunting.
We instituted a fee to access the Trad Gang Classifieds for the primary reason of putting a stop to the constant scamming and hustling we all had to deal with on a near weekly basis. It was either that or there'd be no Trad Gang Classifieds. We don't have those problems any more.
Money from sponsors or contributing members is used to offset our website and forum and domains and servers cost. It's not cheap. We partner with a premier host server organization that takes pride in quality of service, allows us our own immediate access to our servers and domains, is available to us 24x7 for support, and actually speaks the English language. This is a far cry from a cheap ineffective bottom-of-the-barrel hosting service like Go-Daddy. It goes beyond just hardware as we hire people to maintain, support, and care for our systems 24x7, write code as need be, and take care of accounting and bookkeeping. As a result, we have an excellent online track record with almost zero down time. This is to keep the Trad Gang house in good shape and always ready for your posting and archival reading. This is more than necessary for our upcoming conversion migration, where we'll need three servers instead of two. Quality computing, technicians, and internet horsepower ain't cheap.
Terry and I, and the other great Trad Gang folks that are behind the scenes keeping the site going have other lives. Trad Gang isn't all we do in life - we have jobs, families, outside obligations and distractions. We do make Trad Gang a priority, but that can go only so far. Please have patience as we do our best in an instant gratification world.
Again, keep foremost in mind that when you use Trad Gang, you use it for FREE. We make it available at no charge, no service fee, nada. That's the way it should be and the way it will be. Period. Whether or not you wish to contribute to our efforts has absolutely no bearing on your use of Trad Gang. We understand. Trad Gang is your cyber camp, your community, your friends. Don't get more better'n that, I'd think. That's all that matters. Terry and I will do whatever we need to do to keep the Trad Gang campfire burning 'til we croak and can hopefully hand it over to a qualified next generation.
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