Administrivia - Banner advertising going away

Hi folks,

As the prices of hosting has come down considerably since we first started in 2002, I no longer want an income stream of the magnitude we used to need. This place has always run on fumes, deliberately, and with Das Resto Parts' sponsorship coming to an end on Dec 31, 2013, it's time to retire paid sponsorships.

I'd like to extend our warmest thanks to all our sponsors over the years, in no particular order:

[*]ACE 30 oil
[*]ChemGuys
[*]Classic Vee Dub
[*]Colony BMX
[*]Custom Bugs and Buses (CBBVW)
[*]Custom Vee Dub
[*]Das Resto Parts
[*]GPS netspot4u
[*]Just Kampers
[*]Manx Club
[*]Monster Garage
[*]Production Automotive
[*]Raw Auto Werks
[*]Red Dog Earth Moving
[*]Subaru Gears
[*]VForce
[*]VintageVeeDub
[*]Volkspower
[*]Vollks.com.au
[*]VW Magazine Australia
[*]WhizBangWear

Individual sponsors:

[*]Rod Penrose (individual sponsorship) 🙂
[*]Craig Torrens (individual sponsorship) 🙂
[*]and last and definitely not least, MickH, who sponsored us when we had no one else, not even Google. Thanks Mick! 🙂

We also ran free banners for various events, including Day of the Volkswagen and various cruises.

What's next for members

The top banner ad will become Google Ads on January 1. That's it.

Please click ads when you see something you might like to know more about, as that helps us keep the doors open.

What's next for businesses

As of now, businesses can advertise for free in their own thread in Weekly Deals. I prefer automotive related businesses - so tire shops, paint shops, car cleaning, VW repair shops, breakers yards, VW itself or VW dealers, all good. You get the picture.

Please be courteous and don't spam us and don't hijack other business' threads. Preferably, post once a week, say Friday so that folks who might buy on the weekend can see your latest deals to our members on the forum.

Businesses are free to market to us there as well, by posting updates to projects they are working on (preferably with the owner's consent) to show the quality of the work.

But I really want a banner here

If you really want to advertise here using a banner, you'll have to go through Google AdSense. I'll put in a special meta keyword that will make it more likely that your ad will appear here rather than elsewhere, but as that's not how Google AdSense is designed to work, it's likely that your ad will get a wider viewing than just this forum.

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Again, thanks to all our past and present sponsors, you've made AVDS the place it is today.

I've adjusted the rules on the Weekly Deals forum and opened up replies to everyone. Let's see how it goes! 🙂 Tell your favourite VW related business to register and start posting deals!

Advertising change rolled out. I've also made it asynchronous so it will load a lot quicker for you all.

thanks,
Andrew

At least one past sponsor has been left out. 🙁

I don't have records before I took over the ads in circa 2005-2006, so I do apologise if I have left anyone out. Do you have some hints? I would gladly update the list!

Thanks
Andrew

Thanks Andrew. It was "ACE 30 oil" (a product of QPL Victoria) which ran in 2005-6 for at least 12 months.

Fixed. Sorry about that, but that was during the time Jim handed over to Brad who handed over to me just before I left for the USA. There's precious few records pre-2006 other than system documentation.