Interesting Article About Marcus Lemonis - Head Of Good Sam

The article sounds more vindictive than informative in my opinion.

guidry wrote:
The article sounds more vindictive than informative in my opinion.

x2 That guy really is pouring it on - not objective at all

There are at least two sides to every story, and probably all types of sides to this story. The author freely admits that he has a horse in this race so one should expect that there is a slant in the presentation. The Camping World in my neighborhood was a nice quiet small camping store many years ago in the middle of the very small town of Valencia. Valencia is now part of the Los Angeles megalopolis, Camping World is encircled by many major shopping centers and homes, and I am certain that without the intervention of Marcus (or someone like him, with vision and direction) the store would have long since folded and gone the way of the Five & Dime.
I'm not waving anyone's flag, just sayin.

rr2254545 wrote:

guidry wrote:
The article sounds more vindictive than informative in my opinion.

x2 That guy really is pouring it on - not objective at all

X3 A thinly disguised rant with sour grapes thrown in.

Sounds like that author had the same conversation I have had with my competitors. We can work together (preferred) or we can work against each other. If they chose against, they can bet I will be as ruthless as possible. Thankfully, everyone in the RV park business I know are friendly competitors. While we don't share every secret, we do work together.
An example you ask? Last year myself and two other parks went together on a dust control project. I had the largest park and would have had a better rate on an individual basis than had the other parks gone it alone or even the two of them together, but with all three of us combining our project we got a cost that none of us could have achieved alone. But if one of those parks had said, "no I am not working with you no matter what", I still would have done the dust control and either had a financial advantage over that holdout or had a quality benefit (dust treated vs not dust treated) that I would have exploited to the fullest.

Well, the author definitely has issues with Mr. Lemonis. Kind of a whiny little thing too. :)

People are entitled to their opinion. That's the beauty of this country. I was always taught to stay above it. I replied to his article but he deleted it. Oh well

While I am not a fan of Mr. Lemonis, he is a great businessman and knows how to make money. This article is typical "web journalism" of the yellow kind. It is obvious there is an axe being ground here. But the author is not upfront enough to come clean and give the reader the benefit of stating his bias upfront.

Best ignored.

mlemonis wrote:
People are entitled to their opinion. That's the beauty of this country. I was always taught to stay above it. I replied to his article but he deleted it. Oh well

Thanks for popping in. As much as the moderation of these forums is criticized (including by me), good to see that you and the moderators have allowed this thread to remain, while he decided to zap your response. Some roads ARE higher than others. As a side note, when are you going to take on an RV park turn-around for "The Profit"? There is no lack of bad operators with weird parks that would make for great TV. Then when you start talking about taking the concept nationwide, I will sell you some well run, profitable parks to start filling out the portfolio. After you pay me premium dollars I promise I will watch "Profit" reruns until my eyes bleed. :)

I'm not interested in watching The Profit until Mr Lemonis sees his way to getting all the pieces of CW working properly.

Last year I had a web order that turned into a fiasco. First the local CW store would not accept the return (contrary to policy). Then the nice online Customer Service folks issued a merchandise discount certificate that required me to pay full price on my next purchase, then call them and have them issue a credit on the back-end of the deal.

And a couple of months ago I visited my local store just because of their regularly mailed promotions and asked for the location of the advertised item I wanted. I was told they did not stock that item and they run into that type of issue all the time.

I could go on, but I get more benefit than not from being a Good Sam member (and having a store in my hometown). So I'll enjoy the good while hoping they clean up their operational stuff sometime soon.