Originally posted on 01/07/2013:

Quote Originally Posted by shari91 View Post
This is the 3rd thread about the same subject. It was responded to 4 days ago.

http://www.sportsbookreview.com/forum/players-ta...s-players.html
Shari,

I respect you and the SBR team so take this as respectfully as I intend.

The fact that it was "discovered", reported and then partially responded (buried in the thread) to by Bill Dozer does not address this issue.

Besides the fact that I am really disappointed that most of the reason why I have been a solid and positive supporter of SBR is because I can enjoy and support this site while getting some nice stuff occasionally has now been removed, my main beef is really that this is sudden, arbitrary and unannounced by SBR.

If there was one sticky thread (locked if you don't want comments in it) that announced the change and the reasons, I would be more respectful of this change. I understand there are business realities hitting SBR and I guess things have to change.

In the response I saw from Bill Dozer (I think to K13), he quoted reasons like shipping to Eastern Europe was costing a lot of money for shipping and that people who are not active on the forum were just here to freeload. Selfishly I would point out that shipping to Canada is just as expensive as it is to some locations in the US, so why not add some reasonable uplift in cost as it relates to shipping costs if that is a real issue? Secondly, I know of a number of Canadians and others in this forum that are not lurkers and freeloaders, why not address this issue via a different mechanism (like actual posts and content like it used to be)?

I will get off my soapbox but as I have said, this is really sudden, arbitrary and poorly communicated and I am dissappointed in a site that I have really come to cherish over the couple of years I have been here.