Bill N
Well-known member
I see this morning that my last thread to the Shade Tree has been locked. I know administrators have the right to do that but they usually make some remark as to why they have locked down a topic. The topic involved not renewing a Good Sam membership and a comment made by Marcus Lemonis but it evolved into some discussion of Good Sam pricing and membership. I did not feel it had degraded into anything political and had hoped it could be continued as some good points were being made regarding Good Sam membership - which I do not discourage.
Gary RV made an accurate comment that GS was formed as a profit seeking business and is the same today. True Gary but I joined as Charter Member #0052 and, at that time, it's stated goal was to encourage RVers (a relatively new term) to help each other. The profit angle came by promoting subscriptions to Trailer Life which of course had it's advertisers. So supporting a magazine to me is a whole lot different than what the organization is today - a mega conglomerate of Camping World stores that is gobbling up smaller RV businesses.
So I have gone on long enough but still would like to know what was offensive enough about my thread that it had to be locked - Hopefully criticism of Good Sam or Camping World is not a forbidden subject here....lol
Gary RV made an accurate comment that GS was formed as a profit seeking business and is the same today. True Gary but I joined as Charter Member #0052 and, at that time, it's stated goal was to encourage RVers (a relatively new term) to help each other. The profit angle came by promoting subscriptions to Trailer Life which of course had it's advertisers. So supporting a magazine to me is a whole lot different than what the organization is today - a mega conglomerate of Camping World stores that is gobbling up smaller RV businesses.
So I have gone on long enough but still would like to know what was offensive enough about my thread that it had to be locked - Hopefully criticism of Good Sam or Camping World is not a forbidden subject here....lol