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Re: Sports feedback only?

by cards918 » Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:26 am

ofcourse they had...the whole point of that post was to dig that up and prove me wrong...

Re: Sports feedback only?

by osiris » Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:02 pm

cards918 wrote:show of hands...

Anyone ever send a request to a rower? skier? cricket player?

probably not...
Well I've never sent any sports request. But these people sure have...

Steve Redgrave, rower http://www.fanmail.biz/feedback/Steve_Redgrave.html
Matthew Pinsent, rower http://www.fanmail.biz/feedback/Matthew_Pinsent.html
Andrew Flintoff, cricketer http://www.fanmail.biz/feedback/Andrew_Flintoff.html
Shane Warne, cricketer http://www.fanmail.biz/feedback/Shane_Warne.html
Lindsey Vonn, skier http://www.fanmail.biz/feedback/Lindsey_Vonn.html
Chemmy Alcott, skier http://www.fanmail.biz/feedback/Chemmy_Alcott.html

Re: Sports feedback only?

by cards918 » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:10 pm

show of hands...

Anyone ever send a request to a rower? skier? cricket player?

probably not...

Re: Sports feedback only?

by osiris » Wed Oct 21, 2009 6:58 pm

packrat wrote:
osiris wrote:Is there no difference between sending to an agent and sending to a stadium then? Or sending to a chat show that they might be appearing on? Etc etc.
Nobody sends requests to the agent, always to the player. Most people send requests for active players c/o the team; retired players via home address (or work address, if applicable). It's all the same, sending TTM. If a player is appearing on a talk show or simular venue, there is no need to send to that venue, since we can have better luck sending to their home or the stadium. Nobody does that. It does, however, represent an IP opportunity, but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
osiris wrote:Even taking all that into account... sports autographs are in the minority. If it were say even a 30/70 split, then maybe a seperate section would be adequate.
Well, consider this possiblity -- more pages for more advertising space. Increased revenue...
Fair enough, I'm uneducated on the whole sports autograph biz. And yeah... increased revenue.... not really an issue, except for Admin. I'm here to help you guys out, best I can, Admin's the only one gaining here.

Re: Sports feedback only?

by packrat » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:26 pm

osiris wrote:Is there no difference between sending to an agent and sending to a stadium then? Or sending to a chat show that they might be appearing on? Etc etc.
Nobody sends requests to the agent, always to the player. Most people send requests for active players c/o the team; retired players via home address (or work address, if applicable). It's all the same, sending TTM. If a player is appearing on a talk show or simular venue, there is no need to send to that venue, since we can have better luck sending to their home or the stadium. Nobody does that. It does, however, represent an IP opportunity, but that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.
osiris wrote:Even taking all that into account... sports autographs are in the minority. If it were say even a 30/70 split, then maybe a seperate section would be adequate.
Well, consider this possiblity -- more pages for more advertising space. Increased revenue...

Re: Sports feedback only?

by osiris » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:13 pm

cards918 wrote:That's because 90% of the members here are overseas and the only sport is futbol....
Erm no it's not? What about Cricket? Rugby? Boxing? Gymnastics? Rowing? Cycling? Skiing? Darts? All the sports played at the Olympics and Winter Olympics?

Even taking all that into account... sports autographs are in the minority. If it were say even a 30/70 split, then maybe a seperate section would be adequate.

Re: Sports feedback only?

by cards918 » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:55 am

That's because 90% of the members here are overseas and the only sport is futbol....

That is also why I left the boards in the first place and why you have 20,000 members but rarely are there over 100 people online...

Re: Sports feedback only?

by Dysphoria » Wed Oct 21, 2009 11:50 am

You're pretty much wasting your time arguing about this as it will never happen. This forum's administrator couldn't care less about any suggestion ;-)

Re: Sports feedback only?

by osiris » Wed Oct 21, 2009 8:53 am

packrat wrote: Actually, you would only need two. There's TTM and IP. That's it. No such thing as VV for sports.
Is there no difference between sending to an agent and sending to a stadium then? Or sending to a chat show that they might be appearing on? Etc etc.

And hey, it's just my opinion. You have yours, I have mine :)

Re: Sports feedback only?

by cards918 » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:32 pm

How in the heck would it clutter?

I seperates some of the successes...I talk to people all the time and I tell them to go here and they are shocked that there are sport successes here.

They never thought to even check it...

It's obviously a good idea since it does get brought up every couple months...

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