Annoying Sponsor Alert

[Ray Stafford]

Firstly, thanks for welcoming me into the hallowed portals of the plumbers arms! Deeply honoured, and all that guff. And it means I can discuss prices, which I don't want to do on the open forum.

I have been giving some thought to how to deal with my split personality - half of me is a forum sponsor and slightly annoying merchant, and the other half is forum junkie, (half)wit, raconteur, stats geek and pub-bore.

From your point of view, I can see that after a hard day of being p1ssed off by your merchant, you may not want to come down the pub and find another merchant trying to sell you stuff.

So here is what I have in mind.

If I start a thread selling something, I will put "Sponsor Alert" at the beginning of the thread title. If you don't want to be sold to, then just ignore any thread with that in the title.

In the course of another thread, if someone asks about a price or a product and I am answering with my business head on, then I will put a note like this at the start <sponsor alert> so you can skip my pointless blatherings. Unless I forget. Which is quite possible, depending on the state of the Jack Daniels bottle.

So a business post will look like this:

<sponsor alert>

Download our [DLMURL="http://www.williams.uk.com/pricebusters/pricebusters_autumn2012.pdf"]pricelist here [/DLMURL]and when it asks you for a password, type in "tradeonly" with no spaces, all lower case, and without the inverted commas. Please keep this password private to the Arms, because we don't want the public calling in and irritating us. You might like to see the "buy-one-get-one-half-price" offer on Fernox TF1s (page 9), the "buy-one-get-one-free" on Cassellie showers and taps on page 31, or some really silly radiator prices on page 19. The big rads are ridiculously cheap, because I more or less stole them from Vaillant UK.

If you are in the southeast, [DLMURL="http://www.williams.uk.com/branch_locator.html"]click here[/DLMURL] to find your nearest branch. If you are not in the South East, sorry, you will have to wait until we get our ecommerce set up. If you are truly desperate, or have a high value order worth putting on a pallet, please PM me and we can try to work something out.

An ordinary post will look like this:

It's Croppie's round isn't it? By the way, do you know any commercial guys?

 

[PlumbBobBob]

jayhard was the harding family, went to school with one of the sons.

 

[Ray Stafford]

jayhard was the harding family, went to school with one of the sons.

Which one, Alan, Peter or Brian?

 

[Rickster123]

Worked for g.e.hardings 10 years back. Small world!

 

[PlumbBobBob]

it was a long time ago lol i think it was brian. we used to live just down from them on the other side of the road in cobden avenue. well my mum still lives there.