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Its been a while since I logged on to the quite useless AMOC website, looks like it will be a while before I will have access again.
Site does not recognise my details anymore but worst of all, when emails are sent to website manager about this.........no response!
For such a marque, am totally surprised how its membership puts up with this sort of s
te. It is totally unacceptable under any circumstances, especially so due to the cost of membership.
Whats the point of paying all that money for something that is so poor. Some areas seem to quite buoyant, area 9 which i would fall under however.....
Just cannot see myself paying again for this.
They could really learn from PH which, by the way, is FOC.
Site does not recognise my details anymore but worst of all, when emails are sent to website manager about this.........no response!
For such a marque, am totally surprised how its membership puts up with this sort of s
te. It is totally unacceptable under any circumstances, especially so due to the cost of membership. Whats the point of paying all that money for something that is so poor. Some areas seem to quite buoyant, area 9 which i would fall under however.....
Just cannot see myself paying again for this.
They could really learn from PH which, by the way, is FOC.
I think there are a couple of people (Gary U) working on a solution but it's an absolute disgrace the way the whole thing has been handled by the CoM.
It reminds me of a conversation I had last Summer with one of the Committee at a dinner; I mentioned that there were a number of things they could do to try to appeal to Gaydon owners to get more new members
"New members?! Why would we want to attract new members? We're not a business you know that needs to grow? We have more than enough members already, we don't need to attract new ones".
I was horrified by the attitude. And I keep thinking back to that conversation when I think of the disdain with which the forum has been treated; I wonder whether those who made the decisions on the forum thought it (and the debate it created around the club) were more an irritation than an essential function, particulalrly in attracting new members
It reminds me of a conversation I had last Summer with one of the Committee at a dinner; I mentioned that there were a number of things they could do to try to appeal to Gaydon owners to get more new members
"New members?! Why would we want to attract new members? We're not a business you know that needs to grow? We have more than enough members already, we don't need to attract new ones".
I was horrified by the attitude. And I keep thinking back to that conversation when I think of the disdain with which the forum has been treated; I wonder whether those who made the decisions on the forum thought it (and the debate it created around the club) were more an irritation than an essential function, particulalrly in attracting new members
Perhaps the specially selected, 'highly professional' software firm, who AMOC chose to improve their existing forum, previously worked on the £billion NHS software project, which was eventually scrapped.
Just a thought, because numerous IT projects seem to be troublesome, or failures.
I wonder whether the programmers never properly understand, what the client really wants.
Jon39 said:
Perhaps the specially selected, 'highly professional' software firm, who AMOC chose to improve their existing forum, previously worked on the £billion NHS software project, which was eventually scrapped.
Just a thought, because numerous IT projects seem to be troublesome, or failures.
I wonder whether the programmers never properly understand, what the client really wants.
Or more often the customer keeps changing their mind over what they want.Just a thought, because numerous IT projects seem to be troublesome, or failures.
I wonder whether the programmers never properly understand, what the client really wants.
I've had a V8Vantage for 5 years and in that time enjoyed road trips throughout Europe, I'm an AMOC member and thoroughly enjoyed the support and banter provided by their forum. However the incompetent updating of same forum has been a real turn off and I've visited the PH site more regularly and today thought I'd try it - it's easy to register, easy to use and £100 a year cheaper - so far so good...
I've had my Vantage 8 months now and not joined the AMOC, and I'm wondering if it's really worth the money.... I am a member of the TVRCC, and occasionly go to meets, but it has to be said if you want access to advise and experience then the PH TVR forums are vastly superior to the car club forums.... and alot of fun with plenty of humour.. Would I be right in thinking the same probably applies here?
Chilli
Chilli
For Gaydon cars, PH is comfortably (imho) the better resource for information/fixes etc.
For the older cars (at least post-war) AMOC used to be the place to go for technical advice. But of course the forum is now horrible (fingers crossed it will be fixed).
AMOC has some other advantages - monthly regional meetings (difficult for many to get to as held mid-week), 2 concours a year, some racing and other events. And there's the AMOC insurance scheme through Locktons (the main reason tbh why I have membership)
But whether that's worth £100 a year or not depends on how interested you are in those things. The demise of the forum may/will tip a lot of owners into the "won't bother renewing camp".
I suspect what is needed now is some new blood on the CoM
For the older cars (at least post-war) AMOC used to be the place to go for technical advice. But of course the forum is now horrible (fingers crossed it will be fixed).
AMOC has some other advantages - monthly regional meetings (difficult for many to get to as held mid-week), 2 concours a year, some racing and other events. And there's the AMOC insurance scheme through Locktons (the main reason tbh why I have membership)
But whether that's worth £100 a year or not depends on how interested you are in those things. The demise of the forum may/will tip a lot of owners into the "won't bother renewing camp".
I suspect what is needed now is some new blood on the CoM
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