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Old 10-05-2010, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by champion6 View Post
It saddens me to read this. Some of the value of TOTV is diminished for me becasue of this.

I have found the advice from experienced professionals to be very informative and to the point. Sometimes the advice from do-it-yourselfers like myself is not on the mark because it contains a personal bias that "my way is the best way" when in fact it isn't.

Oh well, it is what it is.

Carry on...
Service professionals are welcome to offer all the advise in the world. First they need to purchase advertising. Why would it be okay for one person to pay and another get free advertising by posting advice. Nobody would pay and we'd be out of business. The people I refer to in this post are those who do it deliberately to circumvent the system not because they wish to be a fountain of information.

For example, Vivo Tours is a paid advertiser on this site. If somebody were to ask a travel question, would it be okay for Ajax tours to jump in here for free and answer the question. Why would Vivo ever buy advertising when they could get it for free like Ajax did?