Merger of GS CW makes Rally an infomercial
The comparison of Rally's before the merger of these two entities is like comparing a documentary to an infomercial. This is not good for those who enjoy the RV lifestyle. I am not a flamer nor a cr...
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I've never been to the "Rally" but I am not surprised about the infomercial comment. Good Sam by whatever name has always been part of a for profit company. The club was started by an RV magazine as a way for readers to identify each other on the road. Sort of like an RV.net T-shirt or sticker.
To be fair to Good Sam it is not their fault that it is an old farts organization. Demographics are changing, younger people aren't camping much. I belong to a large motorcycle club and it is almost exclusively blue hairs also.
Good Sam is trying to bring in younger people. At our state meetings and with our regional representative it is often stressed that we need to attract younger members.
I suggest that anyone disappointed in the "Rally" attend your state Samboree. Our Ohio Samborees are held three times a year. We are a totally volunteer organization and the Samborees are operated as a benefit to the attendees, not as a sales tool. Also get involved in a local chapter. The real club is out there, it just sometimes gets lost under the commercial banner of Good Sam.
At our chapter campout this past weekend I met a young couple with two children. They asked about our group (33 people this trip) and said it looked like we really had fun together. I told them we are a local Good Sam chapter. They responded that they had just joined Good Sam. They really expressed a lot of interest in joining us until they asked the dreaded question. "How many families with children are in your chapter?" I had to be honest and tell them that sometimes our grandchildren camp with us but there are no young families in our chapter. They totally lost interest at that point and anything else I said fell on deaf ears.
To be fair to Good Sam it is not their fault that it is an old farts organization. Demographics are changing, younger people aren't camping much. I belong to a large motorcycle club and it is almost exclusively blue hairs also.
Good Sam is trying to bring in younger people. At our state meetings and with our regional representative it is often stressed that we need to attract younger members.
I suggest that anyone disappointed in the "Rally" attend your state Samboree. Our Ohio Samborees are held three times a year. We are a totally volunteer organization and the Samborees are operated as a benefit to the attendees, not as a sales tool. Also get involved in a local chapter. The real club is out there, it just sometimes gets lost under the commercial banner of Good Sam.
At our chapter campout this past weekend I met a young couple with two children. They asked about our group (33 people this trip) and said it looked like we really had fun together. I told them we are a local Good Sam chapter. They responded that they had just joined Good Sam. They really expressed a lot of interest in joining us until they asked the dreaded question. "How many families with children are in your chapter?" I had to be honest and tell them that sometimes our grandchildren camp with us but there are no young families in our chapter. They totally lost interest at that point and anything else I said fell on deaf ears.
