BoatFix Catalog

Read both posts, Bob...and stay away from the light. It was light humor in the face of oppressive public scrutiny...I'm also trying to keep the wolves off you about the membership remark. ;)
 
No intent on oppressive public scrutiny on my part. I was suggesting ways for boatfix to increase sales. Maybe charge the $8, but then have a coupon for $8 off your first order, or something like that.
 
Yamaguchi Steak & Whorehouse coupons. Don't tell me you haven't been getting any...coupons, that is.

The steaks give great massages.
 
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Originally posted by blouderback

The membership is not worth $20, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.

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Bob, I respectfully submit that you are wrong. The support of the BoaterEd forum by purchasing a membership is certainly of great value. And do you have enough knowledge of the other parts of the forum that paying members can access to make any kind of statement about how much "worth" those forums contain?

I am happy to support a place like this that gives me so much in return. It's $20 very well spent...but that's IMHO.
 
Is there a way to subscribe for $20 and explicitly NOT get access to NBR? I might pay $40 for that! [:-fight]
 
There is some value, I guess. It opens up the search feature, and this would cut down on the number of "un-anchored" members re-asking the same questions over and over. But I see no value in the NBR section. When I view "Active Topics", I see the titles of the threads there, and it doesn't seem to be of any value, unless you like talking about politics. Don't get me wrong, the free area of this site is probably the best boating resource on the internet, but I don't see the point of paying $20 just to chat about politics. There's plenty of other forums that allow that for free.

My point about the catalog is that many other on-line boating products (and other products) shopping sites will send a catalog for free. The more catalogs that are out there, the more sales Boatfix.com will probably generate.

PS: It's impossible to be wrong in your opinion. You can disagree with my opinion, but it's not WRONG. :)
 
How would you know it's not worth it having only experienced what Les lets you see for free? You have no idea!
Greg
 
I believe the catalog is the only thing B/F sells on which they actually tack on a small profit margin. They have to stay in biz somehow!

Bob , if you don't get by now that the value of the $20 strictly voluntary donation isn't at all about access to the search function or NBR ( one is a potential perk, the other, well, kind of evens that benefit out...), you likely never will. If you aren't moved to support an expensive-to-maintain & time-consuming-by-it's-hosts site you spend a substantial amount of time participating in, no problem. Really.
 
I believe the catalog is the only thing B/F sells on which they actually tack on a small profit margin. They have to stay in biz somehow! [;D]

Bob , if you don't get by now that the value of a $20(or any other appreciative amount) strictly voluntary donation isn't at all about access to the search function or NBR ( one is a potential perk, the other, well, kind of evens that benefit out...), you likely never will. If you aren't moved to support a costly-to-maintain & time-consuming-by-it's-hosts site you spend a substantial amount of time participating in, no problem. Really. I strongly agree with your opinion about not seeing the point of paying $20 to chat about politics but what has that really have to do with anything?
 
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Originally posted by blouderback

PS: It's impossible to be wrong in your opinion. You can disagree with my opinion, but it's not WRONG. :)

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Sorry but your opinion IS wrong. You do not pay $20 to get access to NBR, you pay $20 to help support what YOU yourself has said is probably the best source of boating information on the web.

Websites cost money and many of us are willing to help offset those costs. Doesn't matter if someone is anchored or not we all try to help each other. No one is forcing you to spend $20 but stop telling people it's not worth $20 to get NBR. This site has probably saved your life by talking you out of the Block Island trip and that in itself is surely worth $20, or maybe not.

Great site, keep your money, your still welcome here but your not welcome to disparage this place.
 
Actually, Sandy, the catalogs are a loss item - they cost us a bit more than the $4 each. While some places, like West, give a $5 coupon when you buy a catalog for $5, you also pay about 30% more for their stuff. We'd rather be straight and keep our prices as low as we can and not play games.

The catalog pages and the index are on line for free so there is no big need to buy one. But a lot of people like it because it's easy to thumb through to find stuff and it's got some good info inside.
 
30% more -- LOL! Have you looked at WM's latest catalog? I think you're off by an order of magnitude, Les. Some things are, no joke, 2-3x the price you can find elsewhere like BoatFix.
 
Les, is it possible to download the entire catalog PDF, or is it just plain too big for that? I'd love to have a way to just page through instead of having to go back to the index page and open another browser window for the next page. Unless I missed something... maybe there already is a way to do that and I just don't know it.
 
Even though it is clearly stated just inside the catalog front cover, just a reminder to those who get that hefty great catalog for the 1st time- The prices shown are basically only just mfgr's list prices. It may be easy to overlook that fact when looking up a desired item and seeing a price (ignore it.)

You need to go online to (or call) BoatFix for their actual discount selling price, and, as most all of us know well enough, it's worth it.
 
I looked around this site for a few hours today and decided the subscription is well worth the money...just waiting for access to the search function. Thanks for this great site.
 
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