As someone who prints out The Grey Nomad Times to pass a hard copy around I totally object to full page advertisements....and for Discovery Parks for gosh sake!....not exactly the cheapest place to camp!!
hako said
07:54 AM Aug 7, 2016
Cannot you just set your printer to print pages 1 to 3 then 6 to 8 etc so it does not print pages 4 and 5? (presuming the adverts are on pages 4 and 5)
Good Luck.
brickies said
08:20 AM Aug 7, 2016
Well it's great that cindy can get a full page add which fund this forum and we pay nothing for the use .
Colin Penrose said
09:53 AM Aug 7, 2016
I agree. Someone has to sponsor a free site !!!! You don't have to stay there ?
jules47 said
10:08 AM Aug 7, 2016
I agree, someone has to pay, it is free to join the site!
Wizardofoz said
10:19 AM Aug 7, 2016
Like someone said recently..."Australians have now taken the whinger crown from the Poms".
Happywanderer said
10:25 AM Aug 7, 2016
I'm thinking you are lucky to be able to print it out and hand out hard copies without affecting copyright.
The advertiser must be paying for you to afford this privilege.
Dougwe said
12:37 PM Aug 7, 2016
Helps pay the bills for Cindy of running this great free to us forum.
Well done Cindy.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Sunday 7th of August 2016 12:37:39 PM
the rocket said
01:12 PM Aug 7, 2016
I don't like ads on tv, radio, papers or anywhere but they have a purpose and on the nomads it affords us a free site. kind regards
Phil C said
01:21 PM Aug 7, 2016
Don't knock it. The advertising lets us in here for free. I agree the CPs are expensive, however we have two put up with adds everywhere damn it!!
brickies said
03:02 PM Aug 7, 2016
I am sure there would be more people than some think that use caravan parks, I for one use caravan park often and happy to pay but still free camp when travelling to an area but if staying put for 2 or more days use basic caravan it our choice .
jules47 said
04:57 PM Aug 7, 2016
Sorry - did I miss something? Wasn't this post about "full page ads" in the Grey Nomad Times - when did it turn into being about caravan parks?
Bruce and Bev said
04:59 PM Aug 7, 2016
We are like brickies - we free or low cost camp when it suits and the place is reasonable (given its free or low cost), but we also use CPs. When we can we avoid the Big 4's and similar as we don't want to pay for the privilege of bouncy tramps, swimming pools and other facilities for kids. The small, privately owned ones are cheap and we try our hardest to support them by staying there - even when we could potentially free camp. We need to keep the reasonable quality, clean and reasonably priced small CPs alive for our future years
brickies said
06:22 PM Aug 7, 2016
Jules the OP was also complaining about the ads been for a caravan park chain Discovery caravan parks
Woody n Sue said
08:12 PM Aug 7, 2016
There is no such thing as a free lunch someone has to pay and in this case it's the advertisers that pay for cindys time to do the news letter and keep this site online and free I say good job Cindy love your work
Woody
Kiwi-as said
09:54 PM Aug 7, 2016
Good on you Cindy for getting a full page add. Helps to pay the bills no doubt.
brickies said
05:59 AM Aug 8, 2016
I think Paul and Pam on tour did not know how the forum was funded and now we have let them know will now have a better under standing of how we get to enjoy this great forum , If anyone on this forum want to find out anything about this forum Cindy will always respond to anyones PM to her , So any time to have question of how the The Grey Nomads is run it would be better to PM Cindy .
hako said
07:29 AM Aug 8, 2016
Like Jules I'm amazed how this thread has gone and also that no one took up on my suggestion to simply set your printer up to only print pages of interest - this could solve Paul and Pam's problem (IMHO but I could be wrong).
As someone who prints out The Grey Nomad Times to pass a hard copy around I totally object to full page advertisements....and for Discovery Parks for gosh sake!....not exactly the cheapest place to camp!!
Good Luck.
I agree. Someone has to sponsor a free site !!!! You don't have to stay there ?
Like someone said recently..."Australians have now taken the whinger crown from the Poms".
The advertiser must be paying for you to afford this privilege.
Helps pay the bills for Cindy of running this great free to us forum.
Well done Cindy.
-- Edited by Dougwe on Sunday 7th of August 2016 12:37:39 PM
I don't like ads on tv, radio, papers or anywhere but they have a purpose and on the nomads it affords us a free site. kind regards
Woody
Good Luck.