Site Sponsors vs Mentioning other companies on the forum?

[Mastiffman/ Duramax7Man7]

Hey Gang,

With the growing community and the forum now having it's first live stock sponsor, I'm wanting to bring something into the light about site fairness and function...

Sponsors don't have a free ride for the advertisement on the forum and although we are still a young and growing forum, that is maturing nicely I must say (thanks to everyone!), I would like everyone to put themselves in the mindset of a business person and look at how it may or may not feel at all, to have other giving free advertisement for other companies on an internet site that you pay to advertise on...

So I'm going to take a fairness poll to see how people feel about whether or not mentioning other importing companies and online dry goods/ equipment retail stores, other than who Tropheus And More... has for a sponsor or soon to be sponsors in the future, is a fair thing to do considering that our sponsors all have a yearly contribution to the site to keep advertise open and solely exclusive to our members...

So if you do vote Yes, No or Unsure, please comment below on your thoughts. This is why I created the forum so that we can all have a welcoming and non-invasive/ offensive and open discussion to keep the site and smooth sailing and successful as possible.

Thanks to everyone that continues to make this possible, welcoming and successful!

Sincerely,
Andrew C.

[rickten]

As a business owner its not good practice. Lets stick to what we have going here! Most of the time to add more names to the game is no good!

[jpayne]

Just give them an opportunity to become a sponsor.

[GMtrophs]

No, it's not fair just like Rickten said it's not a good practice...If I'm a paying sponsor I think it's a slap on a face, why would I continue to pay if I can get free advertisement..!

[brunofraga]

I don't think is fair for any PAID sponsor to have reseller and importers to post on the forum or T.A.M facebook their stock or items to for sale, I totally agreed with the comments of the previous post.

[Dharma]

The whole point of a forum is sharing experiences, expertise, and deals on the interwebs. If I find a FX-6 on sale for $175, I am expected to keep that information to myself? No, I am going to share it with the forum so everyone can benefit. If the sponsors want to meet or beat that price, then I will buy from them.

But, Non-paying businesses should not post with regards to their business.

[rickten]

jpayne and why would we want to do that? Please elaborate? I feel you always have a comment"just ship people" but nothing else. Josiah when you reach a certain level in life when a two hour round trip drive to the airport and back is not worth the $200 bc your time is worth more then that, get at me!! Until then close the comments!

[jkdjedi]

Does this include members selling fry or just to other vendors?

[rickten]

other vendors only. feel free to post anything you have for sale here!!

[jkeeler]

You need to clarify the poll. I understand not allowing non-sponsor vendors to post things for sale, but if a member mentions that they use XYZ food and they are not a sponsor. Is this not allowed? If someone asks where they got their fish, are they not allowed to mention another importer or supplier.