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After being convinced that GWRRA roadside "rescue" is "OK", but not always "enough", I also signed up for HRCA with the hope of increasing my chances of actually getting roadside emergency services, should the need arise.
So I signs up and I pays me money.....and they assign me a "member number" by email and charge my credit card. And that is all. I have never received anything in print in terms of membership or how to make use of their emergency services. ***Can anyone advise me if they actually DO send anything out or do they just take your money***?.
Incidently, I sent an email question to GWRRA about their roadside "rescue plus" service plan and have yet to receive any sort of a response. I am unimpressed with their personal response to (member..... read---paying client) questions. Like others, I am all for fun and friendship and safety, but I would like to see more than self congraduatory web sites and equally self serving magazines for my money. How about a little service to members. And lest anyone think I do not know a good thing when I see it, I would be the very first to say the Gold Book is a treasure chest of wonderful, kind, dedicated, generious and completely "over-the-top" wingers, any of whom I would be honored to meet.
Be that as it may (as long as I am up here on my soapbox, I will add, I am relatively new to this, however, I have been out after dark), I do find it puzzeling how GWRRA seems to spend an inordinate amount of time (and member money) urging its existing membership base, to seek new members (read....REVENUE). and offer inducement (with seemingly lotto like odds), to do so. To me, it kinda sounds like a "near" network marketing shop, with all the money flowing to the "upstream" distributor (it's good to be the king). I wonder about this: someone (or some many..............) at GWRRA are making a great - deal - of - money on the proceeds from membership dues (read-sales, read-revenues) *and* advertising sales, in Wing World.
I wonder, what is the total revenue of the GWRRA organization and where DOES all the money go? Is this financial information disclosed anywhere?? Is it a secret? How much goes to management salaries? What *are* the officers of the parent organization paid in total compensation and benefits and (if any) defered compensation? Has any of this financial information about GWRRA ever been disclosed anywhere, publically?? Just askin, because I am new and curious. I dunno the answers to these questions, and these seem like completely fair and reasonable questions. I am a financial type and used to full disclosure. If HCRA is a business profit center for Honda, what would that make GWRRA.? I don't think it is a 501-c3. Might be, but I doubt it.
Now, I will get off my soapbox (P U L E E E ZZZ) and go back to my original question about HRCA. And it goes like this: does HRCA supply anything in print or the like, concerning how you can avail yourself of their roadside emergency services? Or, put another way, how DOES one avail themselves of HRCA roadside evergerncy services?? I note their web site has NO provision what-so-ever to contact them directly or send a note. Smart, very smart. These are good business models, and very profitable businesses.
So I signs up and I pays me money.....and they assign me a "member number" by email and charge my credit card. And that is all. I have never received anything in print in terms of membership or how to make use of their emergency services. ***Can anyone advise me if they actually DO send anything out or do they just take your money***?.
Incidently, I sent an email question to GWRRA about their roadside "rescue plus" service plan and have yet to receive any sort of a response. I am unimpressed with their personal response to (member..... read---paying client) questions. Like others, I am all for fun and friendship and safety, but I would like to see more than self congraduatory web sites and equally self serving magazines for my money. How about a little service to members. And lest anyone think I do not know a good thing when I see it, I would be the very first to say the Gold Book is a treasure chest of wonderful, kind, dedicated, generious and completely "over-the-top" wingers, any of whom I would be honored to meet.
Be that as it may (as long as I am up here on my soapbox, I will add, I am relatively new to this, however, I have been out after dark), I do find it puzzeling how GWRRA seems to spend an inordinate amount of time (and member money) urging its existing membership base, to seek new members (read....REVENUE). and offer inducement (with seemingly lotto like odds), to do so. To me, it kinda sounds like a "near" network marketing shop, with all the money flowing to the "upstream" distributor (it's good to be the king). I wonder about this: someone (or some many..............) at GWRRA are making a great - deal - of - money on the proceeds from membership dues (read-sales, read-revenues) *and* advertising sales, in Wing World.
I wonder, what is the total revenue of the GWRRA organization and where DOES all the money go? Is this financial information disclosed anywhere?? Is it a secret? How much goes to management salaries? What *are* the officers of the parent organization paid in total compensation and benefits and (if any) defered compensation? Has any of this financial information about GWRRA ever been disclosed anywhere, publically?? Just askin, because I am new and curious. I dunno the answers to these questions, and these seem like completely fair and reasonable questions. I am a financial type and used to full disclosure. If HCRA is a business profit center for Honda, what would that make GWRRA.? I don't think it is a 501-c3. Might be, but I doubt it.
Now, I will get off my soapbox (P U L E E E ZZZ) and go back to my original question about HRCA. And it goes like this: does HRCA supply anything in print or the like, concerning how you can avail yourself of their roadside emergency services? Or, put another way, how DOES one avail themselves of HRCA roadside evergerncy services?? I note their web site has NO provision what-so-ever to contact them directly or send a note. Smart, very smart. These are good business models, and very profitable businesses.