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Re: Advice on buying my first GMC coach? [message #330758 is a reply to message #330745] Mon, 09 April 2018 17:10 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Matt Colie is currently offline  Matt Colie   United States
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GMC2000 wrote on Mon, 09 April 2018 13:53
the ball is rolling on the GMC Im looking at buying!

Ive found on this page http://www.bdub.net/GMCLinks.html it indicates this forum is a 'mirror' of the "GMCNet".

I havnt been able to find a forum for these that is strictly a forum, is there one?

also has a facebook 'group' listed but thats not a website I participate on at all.

then I went to the GMC registry http://www.gmcmhregistry.com/index.html figuring I could look up this GMC but it requires a request for info. I was expecting more, there is a statistics link on there but very little on it. I wonder if a redacted list of coaches is available with only active VINs with no other private info so folks can see how many of them and what year models and such they are? it would be interesting.

I gotta be brutally honest, this whole 'community' is seeming to be more of a private and or closed sources clique than an freely distributed, open sourced, information clearing house for what ever reason. if there is no other forums for these and the ones who administrate here have no interest in the larger picture, perhaps a new one, more suitable to new folks is needed?


Unknown Person,

There is a whole lot about this community that you have not yet realized. The group is old. It is so old that it predates modern forums. What did happen is that the old e-mail system that was on a private bulletin board for a server. That got migrated, and later, the forum overlay was put on it. That behaves just like any of the other forums I read. But, by the same token, I can (and do get) a digest to a remote mail client in the case I should miss something that is important. While and at the same time, those that want to read the traffic, but have slow connections, (some are still on a dial up service and thereby limited to about 56K) so if they were stuck with a forum interface, the thread would be closed before they could even read it. And, if I chose to, I could turn the e-mail service back on so my phone could get it and not be overloaded.

Next squawk:
Because this is an old community, it had to start out closed. All of us have had @ddresses mined and so were quickly drowned in spam. As for the available information being closed. Most of it is available to all, but some is restricted to save the band width for those that need it. All that takes to get access to all is a no-fee membership. The only advertising carried (except at the forum header) is by our committed suppliers. We are very grateful for what those people do for our community and if we can provide them this, nobody here will ever complain. Those same suppliers have pulled the very personal bunns of each and every one of us out of a fire at one time or another.

And no, you can't look up a coach by VIN on the registry. But, if you are a member of the community and you should call the gentleman that is the current keeper of said registry, he can give you what history he has on that coach. Again, it is done this way to protect the privacy of the members of the community.

Now, if you run across a coach that is available and interesting to you, come back here with what ever particulars you can collect and ask. It is a pretty good bet that someone will know that coach and be able to tell you a lot about it. At last count, there were about 8000 coaches out there and while there are only a few thousand users here, we cover a lot of ground.

Should you become a member of our community, you will find it a vast collection of helping and supportive people, and should you ever need the assistance of the community, it is an amazing thing. There are not many like this.

Oh, and yes, most of us use real names because if you are an owner, you will meet other owners and it feels real stupid to say, "Oh, that is who you are". It is more difficult to stretch out to help others you don't know than it is those you do. But both have happened here.

Matt

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