Final call

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£5 a year (non club members) with no ads - or ads
£5 a year with no ads		28 (87.5%)
Free with Adverts		4 (12.5%)
Total votes:		32

This poll ends: 31.03.2023

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Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #1

Your choice

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #2

Is the subscription per device or across all devices

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Re: Final call - MHC way forward

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #3

Quote by baguette

Is the subscription per device or across all devices

Based on your account, so all devices.

(should of made clear this only for MHC)

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Reply on Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #4

A fiver a year, for no adds is a no-brainer.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #5

Getting more confused, I thought MHC was closing and moving to UMHC to which I am a paid up member but still getting ads. It’s all a muddle to me but I would pay a fiver to be ad free

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #6

Quote by Albert the Talbot

Getting more confused, I thought MHC was closing and moving to UMHC to which I am a paid up member but still getting ads. It’s all a muddle to me but I would pay a fiver to be ad free

I found wine really helps !

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #7

Quote by JJF

Quote by Albert the Talbot

Getting more confused, I thought MHC was closing and moving to UMHC to which I am a paid up member but still getting ads. It’s all a muddle to me but I would pay a fiver to be ad free

I found wine really helps !

I think Brian has passed that stage

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #8

Quote by Albert the Talbot

Getting more confused, I thought MHC was closing and moving to UMHC to which I am a paid up member but still getting ads. It’s all a muddle to me but I would pay a fiver to be ad free

How? There is no UMHC website, it closed and moved to a UMHC section in MHC were it firstly was created.

So UMHC is inside MHC, there was MPI but it's now MPL, neither are on MHC but MPL has an account on MHC, there is also MHC FB as well as MPL FB, there is even a MPL Instagram. MPI and MHC had a twitter not now none have a tweet.

Helpful?

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 09.03.2023 · #9

I think it’s time to turn it off and turn it on again

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 10.03.2023 · #10

Quote by sprinter

A fiver a year, for no adds is a no-brainer.

Club members won't have to pay any extra.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 10.03.2023 · #11

Quote by Ally

Quote by sprinter

A fiver a year, for no adds is a no-brainer.

Club members won't have to pay any extra.

Yeh, that was the first bit of post 1in BoldBlack
£5 a year (non club members) with no ads - or ads

Mors websites would work better, if they did the same thing. Especially, with the Google Crap butting in, two, three times on every page.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 10.03.2023 · #12

I’m a member and get ads.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 10.03.2023 · #13

Quote by sprinter

Mors websites would work better, if they did the same thing. Especially, with the Google Crap butting in, two, three times on every page.

They can't. People won't pay, they think Facebook is free

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 10.03.2023 · #14

Quote by Galldar

I’m a member and get ads.

I own it and I get ads, they don't annoy me at all, a quick click and they're out of the way.

(Referring to future plans)

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 10.03.2023 · #15

Quote by Ally

Quote by Galldar

I’m a member and get ads.

I own it and I get ads, they don't annoy me at all, a quick click and they're out of the way.

(Referring to future plans)

So many pesky ads for lonely busty single women. Not sure what they have to do with Motorhomes no matter how much I investigate. I’ll let you know if so discover the link…

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 11.03.2023 · #16

I'm just getting campervan and Motorhome adverts. It says more about you

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 12.03.2023 · #17

Quote by Gavster

Quote by Ally

Quote by Galldar

I’m a member and get ads.

I own it and I get ads, they don't annoy me at all, a quick click and they're out of the way.

(Referring to future plans)

So many pesky ads for lonely busty single women. Not sure what they have to do with Motorhomes no matter how much I investigate. I’ll let you know if so discover the link…

It goes on your past search history.

I keep getting engineering tools and equipment

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 12.03.2023 · #18

Quote by Ron W

Quote by Gavster

Quote by Ally

Quote by Galldar

I’m a member and get ads.

I own it and I get ads, they don't annoy me at all, a quick click and they're out of the way.

(Referring to future plans)

So many pesky ads for lonely busty single women. Not sure what they have to do with Motorhomes no matter how much I investigate. I’ll let you know if so discover the link…

It goes on your past search history.

I keep getting engineering tools and equipment

I was going to say I get plenty of random ads for horse racing etc and only got one lonely woman in my defence… but as I went to type this message in I got another lonely woman ad! Must be a bug somewhere on the forum Ally. I thought I would have far more than 2 of those ads by now

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 13.03.2023 · #19

I'll try and fix it. I'm not getting any busts at all.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #20

We could just move to Facebook, archive the forums until such times Facebook ceases to exist.

That's where everyone else is.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #21

Obviously you have to go where the people are but I definitely prefer the format of the forums! Much easier to navigate and get the info I want. But I might be showing my age a bit there lol!

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #22

I hate Facebook with a vengeance. I do have an account but don't have their app on my phone and won't be putting it on. Too much sh1te.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #23

Quote by willthiswork

Obviously you have to go where the people are but I definitely prefer the format of the forums! Much easier to navigate and get the info I want. But I might be showing my age a bit there lol!

Quote by baguette

I hate Facebook with a vengeance. I do have an account but don't have their app on my phone and won't be putting it on. Too much sh1te.

Completely agree with you both. Forums are 1000 times better.

However...

We were beat long ago, I should of created a FB Group way back at the start before loads was stolen. But I put it to a vote here and the answer was no.

We are a few old guys hanging on to what we like and are used too when the huge crowds and chitter chatter are currently on FB and have been for sometime, because it's easily used, an idiot can use it, and most do. They think it's free.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #24

Like most level headed intelligent people I too hate FB and the way in which it harvests data and fires so many ads at you that you are unable to see the actual content you want. I dont have it on my phone just on my ipad which I keep at home and only have it on that to moderate a couple of groups that I help look after.

The biggest gripe apart from the adverts is the way FB deletes posts and blocks people for expressing their views when they don't match the ideology of the FB masters, as well as removing adverts off market place for breaching their rules, but dont tell you which rule or policy you have breached and dont give a way to have a proper appeal against their decision

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #25

I don't use FB, never have and never will, same with twatter , too many village idiots let loose on them+ the invasion of your privacy

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #26

Quote by the fat controller

So whats your answer?

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #27

Quote by eirebus

I don't use FB, never have and never will, same with twatter , too many village idiots let loose on them+ the invasion of your privacy

Where would you go?

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #28

Quote by Ally

Quote by eirebus

I don't use FB, never have and never will, same with twatter , too many village idiots let loose on them+ the invasion of your privacy

Where would you go?

The web, and forums like this one that I have an interest in and can search through for answers to questions I have

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #29

Quote by eirebus

The web, and forums like this one that I have an interest in and can search through for answers to questions I have

If this wasn't here is what I meant. No other Irish Motorhome forums. I expect we'll be here until the end of the universe, probably before 2050 then. Just throwing it out there to see opinions

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Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #30

Quote by eirebus

I don't use FB, never have and never will, same with twatter , too many village idiots let loose on them+ the invasion of your privacy

I'm like you Dave,
If this forum wasn't here I wouldn't be looking for it.
It always amuses me when I see, FIND US ON FB, and then I think, if you have lost yourself in all that crap, don't expect me to come and find you, and even if I did, how would I know it was you, in the first place.? And do In realy need anything you have.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #31

If MotorhomeCraic wasn't here I would probably frequent the UK based forums to glean info, but the local knowledge would be missing.

If MHC forum disappeared I would not go to any of the social media platforms, I completely and utterly detest those interfaces & interactions where its designed to draw in people so they actually become "the product being sold", most can't and won't see that.
I've been around IT for well over 40 years and I am set in my ways .... The folk using social media (as a generalisation) have no idea what the internet is and that's the way it will keep them.

I'd end up doing my own thing within a more enclosed and smaller pool, I'd retain the excellent friends I made here and no doubt end up meeting among ourselves.

My tuppence worth, but that's how I see it and how it would pan out for me.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #32

I came here from Motorhome Facts and Boards. MHF is still going strong and Boards (the caravan/motorhome section) is pretty much RIP.
If MHC wasn't available

I'd probably go back to where I came from.
For social meetings I am a member of an excellent club with 18 rallies and a dinner dance each year which is stuffed with friendly people.
I really have no need of being a member of a Facebook group at all.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #33

This is why FB doesn't work... news feeds doctored by algorithms.

https://www.facebook.com/group…491736299/

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 14.03.2023 · #34

P.s. in case I worried anyone, MHC forums are going nowhere

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 15.03.2023 · #35

Keep voting, the future of mankind depends on it.

Ok not quite, I got confused with dinosaurs and motorhome owners.

Myself included.

Did I ever tell you about the story of the three wells?

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 15.03.2023 · #36

Now, now, now

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 15.03.2023 · #37

Hahaha

Note: we lost two advertiser's. Donagheys who closed and LTS, despite being here from the start, didn't wish to carry on. Anchorpoint left but came back.

@JJF can tell you how the advert works for him.

So with no money coming in, it's either members pay or the adverts do. It's now costing me money every month.

If you value being on a proper safe platform, not getting your live's stole by big-tech and supporting a local platform, not some jumped up jerk in America

it's now come down to "you'll have to put your money where your mouth is"

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 15.03.2023 · #38

Motorhomecraic is an interesting informative forum full of interesting and informed people. Since we joined a few years ago

the forum has been a source of reliable information in relation to Aires and campsites throughout the 32 counties.

In addition the accounts of people's travels throughout Europe have made great reading. Last Autumn we spent 4 weeks

travelling in our MH around Northern France visiting many of the places mentioned by Motorhomecraic owners. I'd say

"IF it an't broke why fix it'. Keep up the good work & thanks to all the forum administrators.

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Re: Final call

· Posted: 17.03.2023 · #39

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We don't wish to succumb like everyone else to Meta, and be absorbed by algorithims and data theft. if its free "you are the product.

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