Scuba1 wrote:
Estebanh wrote:
The previous owner of the site got your $100. The current owners derive absolutely no benefit from grandfathered VIP users. Guys like you just use up bandwidth and are freeloaders just like the rest. If you guys are so "Fair Minded" and concerned about the profitability of the site, maybe you should be paying along with all the newbies.
As you see it.....but you are wrong; interesting point, but again, incorrect -
Using your own logic, if you are renting an apartment, and the building is sold - ah, you know what - Phuck it; like I give a shit - be a dead beat, a freeloader if that's what you want.
Just stop bitching about what you don't have access to as a non paid member.
You hit the nail right on the head. At the end of the day Estabanh is just cheap and greedy and is a person who wants something for nothing. For him to complain about not getting something for free is a joke. If you think that your post about Colombia or any other subject are so good that your membership fees and obligations should be waived your wrong.
Apparently at one point you bought a one year membership and it expired. You're too cheap to buy a lifetime membership and now you want to complain because something that you got for nothing was taken away from you.
It seems to me that the owners of this website have two revenue streams one is from paid memberships and the other is from their sponsors. Are you trying to insinuate that the owners and operators of this website are entitled to nothing for their time and effort in maintaining the site?
With respect to the sponsors the owners of this website have a right, and perhaps an obligation, to steer business towards their sponsors. What would you do if you owned this website?(Please don't suggest that you would give everything section to everybody for free) Why would they steer business to a hotel or transportation service in a foreign country unless that hotel and or service was a sponsor?
A lifetime membership will cost you $100, if you like the website so much, and you've been posting for six years, why don't you just pony up the hundred? You obviously like the website or you wouldn't cry like a baby about having your favorite section removed to the pay section.
Your insinuation that moving that one particular section will ruin the website is laughable. Most of the people who've been on this site for number years understand, or least understood at some point, that they have an obligation to pay something. If you go to Costa Rica and just use the hotel discounts then you will more than save your membership fee. I got my membership fee back in dicounts the first time I used it in 2007 at the Presidente. if you dont go to Costa Rica or don't avail yourself of the deals our sponsors offer than that's on you not the owners of CRT.