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I want to add something and one of the reasons that this has come up so much lately. Over the last few months not a day goes by that we do not get accused of taking money on this site. Not a single day and most of the time we shrug it off and do not care. It gets GG worked up because she does the books and knows what is at stake here, but it happens. You cannot please everybody.

But the fact is that we are taking ads in the magazine and some of the emails that I have received make some sense. Since it is all one company (THP Media, Inc) could it not be argued that we are already taking ads since they are in the magazine? The answer is yes in a way. We did not make any money on the magazine. In fact we lost quite a bit, but we knew that going in that we would for the 1st year and it was in our budget to do so. But the thought behind it was right in a technical sense. That THP Media overall has taken ads in the form of our print publication.

We have never taken a single dime from the site. No google ads, no money for reviews, nothing. Only donations and they mean a lot. But there comes a point in time where you have to ask yourself can you keep assessing new costs to the members? Country Clubs have been asking that very question for the last 24 months. New costs come up you either charge the members the money or you go public. In some ways THP is under the same cloud.