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Originally Posted by Aquattro
Just a note on sponsor status. If someone is selling frags full time, has a banner signature with a company name linked to a companyname.com website setup to sell said frags, it's a business.
We have several of these businesses that find sponsoring here is a good direction for their advertising dollars, and it isn't fair to allow "hobbyist businesses" to do the same for free.
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I am not selling frags full time, I never have been. I have a goal to do this in the future but as I said before I have given away far more free frags than I have actually collected payment for.
I agree that a website in progress may look like a business but the website is going to be a showcase for my display tank, a blog, and also no doubt an avenue to sell some frags. Am I still a "business" if over half the deals are also trades for something I don't have?
I think that one has to properly discern a "business" for profit, or flipside a small setup like this that helps one pay for the insane amount of money that this hobby can cost an individual. I also enjoy offering my frags for free on occasion in order to help people with crashed tanks, new setups etc. I work more than 70 hours a week at my full time job and hardly consider this a business at this point. If I were a brick and mortar business with 100's of Gallons of frag tanks I could see your position.
It is easy to understand that it is only fair to the other sponsors paying $960.00 a year to not allow "established" businesses free advertising rights here. If I were them I would be upset too; however, in this case I hardly agree.
I would love to sponsor Canreef as it has been a valuable source of information and a great place to meet great people. When I can justify the almost 1K a year I will hop on board no doubt! Until that point, people that want nice frags know where to find me, word of mouth is a good thing. It is nice to have someone like Wicked Frags chime in in regards to this gray area.
One of the funny things is that the person helping me with the website is another Canreef member that I pay in frags to help me, great guy too!
