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It markets to the traveler who may be traveling to Chicago, Nashville, New York etc. The customer is looking through the "things to do" section of the Travelocity site and they find that they can go Skydiving in or near the city they are traveling to. That customer may not have even dreamed of skydiving before they saw that opportunity, then they decide, "Hell Yeah, I want to add that to my itinerary", They book the jump, and yes, they still went through the middle man, BUT, they got sold something that they were not originally thinking of, and they can do it in or near the city they are traveling to because it was marketed in an area other than skydiving.
The way I see a lot, maybe most DZ's marketing, and I'm guilty of it to, is they only have skydiving oriented keywords, titles and description meta tags and content in their sites. Therefore, the only people who find their sites are people who were already looking to jump, so they naturally are going to Google "Skydiving in
If the DZO's who prefer to use middle men would drop sLyride and maybe PROSkydiving and sign on with the travel companies, that could be a win/win deal as opposed to the fraud and crime done by sLyride
Just a thought...
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I think you are wrong about slowing them down. Now, I'm going to intentionally contradict myself for a minute,
You are correct, you quitting them will not slow them down, but it would be a damn good start, AND, Now back to being consistent, If you quit them, and other DZO's decide that your PROSkydiving is, or can be a better system, sLyride will either go out of business or the Government will get enough reports of customers being scammed that the Fed's will put them out of business. Just my opinion...
The problem in Chicago is that one of the 3 local DZ's has very deep and strong ties to SkyRide. (not CSC)
Seems to me that 2 of them do.
Skydive Chicago appears to be managing OK without Skyride, however.
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jsaxton 0
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Jumpdude 0
Google should pick it up in a couple of weeks.
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More interesting is that 50% of the last 6 USPA National Championships were held at dropzones that accept sLyride coupons.
What type of sanctions would you recommend we impose upon these DZs and upon the USPA itself for awarding these events to them?
Jumpdude 0
QuoteI went through the 1800skydiveripoff list and based on that list and your logic the wind tunnel in Perris was built with or at least affiliated with sLyride money. That would make Perris Valley culpable and following the fruit of the poison tree logic even Skyventure itself.
More interesting is that 50% of the last 6 USPA National Championships were held at dropzones that accept sLyride coupons.
What type of sanctions would you recommend we impose upon these DZs and upon the USPA itself for awarding these events to them?
First, What list are you talking about?
Secondly, simply because there's too many jumpers out there that only care about jumping Turbines and don't give a shit how or where the DZO got the money to purchase the Turbine A/C, I don't suppose the will be any "Sanctions" on DZO's or USPA unless enough people got together and boycotted them. I'm not holding my breath.
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Besides that, 1800skyrideripoff is not written to educate skydivers, it's written for wuffo's. And no, it's not eye candy by any means.
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QuoteJust a little off topic but it is related.
How is the contract written between you and 1800skyride/Thrill Planet?
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So what about that contract Chicagoland? If the rumors are true, you don't have one, it's all a deal where they just send you your own customers with a GC, then you turn it in.
PROskydiving is not a new site. It's been around for almost 18 months now. Does PRO have SEO, yes... of course it does. But if the goal was to take over search results and hijack a dropzone's customers, that would be reflected in the search results by now. But you'd be hard pressed to find PRO show up in most regional searches. And if it does, local DZs (and SR) are on top. I don't think the existence of the PROskydiving website is wrong or constitutes thievery. It is there to facilitate future plans which Doug has already spoken to.
In addition PRO offers dropzones a simple solution to schedule classes and manage student reservations which can easily be rolled out to the dropzone's own website. All at a very reasonable rate, especially when you take credit card fees and other overhead into account.
Is PROskydiving perfect? No. It is a young business. The website, while in existence for a year and a half has recently undergone a rewrite and redesign (i.e. it isn't perfect). Nothing was done in a vacuum or under the cover of darkness. Doug has spoken to and gotten feedback from many people in the industry – including DZOs. Things have evolved in the last 18 months and things will continue to change and evolve in order to build a system that is good for dropzones and for customers – based on input from those involved.
There is a lot of cynicism and distrust here. I don't expect to sway anyone's opinion, but in time I hope that some may realize we're trying to build something that is good and useful for all involved as well as help elevate awareness and generate more business for the sport as a whole.
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