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Hey, fair is fair, right?
What would be fair is to NOT have Watkins Mfg., HS/CDera the only exclusive Hot Tub advertisers here on the forum.
I wasn't going to reply to this, so the post would just fade away, but. Who cares? Let them spend their hundreds of millions of dollars on advertizing, all it does is drive people into all spa show rooms. They do sell a lot of spas because of it, but I'll bet I do to. Not every person that walks into a HS store falls for their propaganda, a lot of them fall for mine!
I care. This has been brought up before, and I was given the impression this was an independent forum. If someone is going to make the accusastion that it's not, I think it should be answered directly.
I have been told by Watkins that this web site is open to anyone who wishes to advertise. I have heard from other sources that the ad rates are very steep.To the best of my knowledge, and I have spoken to many folks about it, this web site is not owned/operated by Watkins. This is based on the info I have able to gather, but keep in mind that I am not a Watkins employee nor do I attend any meetings for marketing - nor am I an employee of 'What's the Best' or Burstnet.The ads to the left are placed by Yahoo - and they rotate according to the content of the page. But that means that Yahoo is also an advertiser here, they pay a click-through fee for every ad placed there.
With all due respect to this forum...I did interpret that as a closed forum....
. The inquiry did not receive a response of interest, much less a schedule of rates for consideration. I did interpret that as a closed forum without the capitalist interest to securing additional advertising revenue in spite of only one single advertiser on this forum.I trust I will not have my hand slapped for this honest response.
With all due respect to this forum and to the concept of freedom in this country, I did make inquiries to this forum as a person who sits on the national board of directors of the Association of Pool and Spa Professionals.