Certificate not honored by Good Sam.

paulsang wrote:

wbwood wrote:

westernrvparkowner wrote:

wbwood wrote:
Question: why did you get a good Sam discount if they aren't a good Sam park?

Any park can offer any discount they want. No different than taking Home Depot's ad into Lowes and getting that sale price. As for the park displaying Good Sam logos and not being a Good Sam park, the Good Sam enforcement arm isn't exactly as strong as Tony Soprano's crew. I doubt they could even give them a noticeable slap on the wrist if they actually tried to punish a park for claiming to still be a Good Sam Park after they dropped the marketing affiliation.

Yeah but wouldn't the park say that ey aren't a good Sam member but we will still give you the discount? I don't think GS would punish them or even try. But if they don't have GS affiliation anymore then I would think that they would know. This isn't the first time someone has posted a park being in the listing and the park saying they aren't affiliated anymore.

The park thinks they are GS, and did give us the discount. THAT wasn't the original issue. The issue is that when we sent in our certificate for the 'one free night of camping' GS says the park isn't a GS park, and sent the certificate back.

Maybe the employees at the park think it is a Good Sam park. But, to be a Good Sam park the park not only needs to meet some minimum standards, they need to PAY the fees to be a Good Sam Park. Maybe the ownership of the park decided (or neglected) and did not pay to be a member park. There would be no way for the employees to know if they were not told.