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RohoBorrego
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Sep 09, 2016

Good Sam Club RVer of the Year

I am the Oklahoma Good Sam Club State Director. In late March, Good Sam Club requested on the website (with the form) nominations for RVer of the Year. In April, I submitted, through our South Region Director, a nomination for a very worthy Oklahoma candidate for RVer of the Year. I received an email from Good Sam with the following criteria "All submissions will be reviewed by the International Good Sam Club and a specific number of nominees will be selected in July. Voting by Good Sam members on those candidates will run from August 15th – September 15th (one vote per membership). The winner will be announced in October." I included this information in the May Chapter newsletter to the Oklahoma Good Sam Chapters. When I did not receive any information by the first of August regarding the candidate selections, I emailed Good Sam and on August 16th received the following information from Good Sam "Due to the lack of participation over the past few years the decision has been made to change the RVer of the Year program to more of a member spotlight program campaign." In other words, the process was changed AFTER nominations were solicited, and AFTER voting criteria was sent out. I have some very upset Oklahoma Good Sam chapter members over this unfair decision. I indicated to Good Sam that this was unfair to our candidate but did not receive a response. I am so disappointed with our International Good Sam Club.

5 Replies

  • The downward spiral continues ever since a person unnamed decided the Good Sam Club was simply a "marketing tool".
  • Good Evening RohoBorrego,

    I would like to escalate your complaint to our executive desk for further investigation and follow up. Can you please send us a private message with your contact information so we can include it with our escalation.

    Thank you... Rudy
  • Why are you surprised? Anything branded Good Sam or Camping World is not about the people or customers, it is all about how to make more money for the corporation. Once again they have shown that they do not care about the people or customers who support the organization with their time or money.

    You would be very wise to break away for Good Sam and start your own camping club.
  • Why not find out the criteria and steps necessary to make your nominee a spotlighted member? Seems like a similar honor. With all due respect, doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me. Hope the ruffled feathers get smoothed.
  • If the state directors were not part of the decision making process I wonder who made the decision.
    What you should do is honor your nominee yourselves. Probably mean more to the recipient. Take up a collection and get him/her a membership to coachnet or Amazon prime for a year.

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