Amiga.org welcomes Elbox as an advertiser.

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I agree, by becoming an advertiser Elbox did something positive, in my book, and my opinion of them is much higher now.  I am sure that was the intent, and thats OK, it worked because it should work, we like people supporting the site.

And I think the AWD style, 'welcome' to this advertiser was a good thing.

And NOOOO, I don't care what anyone's momma's told them, we do not have to have consensus at all times in order for plans to work.  Paul Gadd's comment were great and they didn't ruin anything.

I don't agree with Paul, though I am glad he expressed his opinion.  Elbox did remove the RDB thrashing code, they did not apologize, but good grief, they removed the code, thats about as good as you get these days.

Now by becoming a supporter of amiga.org they have done a lot to rehabilitate themselves.

Of course, they release a G3 or G4 accelerator and they are not only rehabilitated, but I will personally give them a kiss on the mouth.

eewwwwwwwwww who said that.
 :-P

If we are not allowed to criticize advertisers, then either I am going to have to hope a crook never advertises here, or advertise myself, not sure which./
 :-o

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@JoannaK

remind me to never make you my salesperson.

The companies you mentioned as being unlikely to advertise, a) do advertise on other sites, and b) have the most reason to advertise.

But there are at least 10 other companies that either have, or will advertise soon, that you didn't mention at all.

Amiga Inc hosts this site for free.  Wayne once said he would need $300/month to cover the bandwidth of this site.  Well, that makes Amiga, Inc. the largest benefactor of this site, probably of any Amiga site, for that matter.

But the other you mentioned, Genesi who is 'hitting' large targets...advertises all over the Amiga Web, and this site is one of the largest/most influential sites, this is exactly the market they should target.  Not saying they will, but under the right circumstances, why not....I've seen their advertisements on amiga.org.ru, why not the real, much bigger amiga.org?

Software companies, like Cloanto advertise all the time.  Anyone who has a new product to sell, would do well to advertise, whether that is Hyperion, H&P, or even many of the up and coming games people, even morphos games.

The retailers, of course, they need to advertise...and they have in the past, softhut used to advertise, compu-quick the same....and many european companies did and still do advertise....

This site, as it continues to grow, and as these retailers begin to have products to sell....regardless of whether its a pegasos or amiga-one, as they have a need to sell products to people who are readers here......

now with all that said, it is bleak, it is hard, the market is very small...its just not necessary to go overboard the other way...I could easily see someone getting 10 advertisers...well wayne already has 2, so he already has the Maximum amount everyone was predicting in a thread at new years....one more and he has defied all the critics.

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@Marktime

hmmmm I must have worded myself poorly, because your response is basically what I suspected, and was trying to outline, without making unneeded guesses... I wanted JoannaK to see that under the right circumstances, Genesi would advertise here.

Though I had no insider knowledge, I just speculated that to be true, since they advertise everywhere on Amiga websites...

Anyway, you have cleared all that up, and we all understand the situation clearly.

I agree, noone is the bad guys, with Amiga, Inc. providing such great assistance, and Genesi wanting to provide their own.

Its just a standard conflict of interest, which is typical in business.  Now....with that said, since Amiga, Inc. doesn't use the banner space you would provide them, they should go directly to Genesi and offer to sell their banner space.  Why?  Just because I think it would be funny, thats why!

That would be the most interesting conflict of interest...would Genesi write Amiga, Inc. a check?