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4X4Dodger
Jun 10, 2015Explorer II
moisheh wrote:
Good Sam makes it's $$ by selling advertising in the book. They have part time sales persons who visit the parks and do the ratings. If the CG places an ad they get a better rating! Parks in Mexico do not do much advertising so sales people do not bother visiting the parks. The listings are very inaccurate, outdated and sometimes fiction. I really do not know why Mike and Terry have not updated their book. They did a fantastic job. Perhaps it is due to a lack of book buyers. Must cost them a fortune to gather all the data and publish the book. They are not a charity!
Moisheh
While I am a critic of the Big Red Book from Good Sam and many of it's features and the way it is presented I dont beleive there is a Quid Pro Quo system in place for advertising and ratings. I can point to hundreds of parks that have very high ratings that don't advertise and some that do advertise that have much lower ratings.
But one thing I am sure we agree upon is that the coverage for Mexico is dismal at best and an embarrassment for Good Sam.
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