markTHEblake
31st December 2004, 05:04 PM
Most of us here are freinds, (like in real life not just virtual i mean) and we all pretty much live close together, unlike most forums.
I spent much of the last month handing fistfulls of dollars over to many different tradesmen for my new house, i would have rather given it over to one of me mates, becuase its often hard to trust a complete stranger. But i dont know what half you lot do.
I would like to suggest a seperate forum where members could describe what services they can provide to fellow members. So when we (or indeed our own freinds) need a plumber we can look up the Ozgolf directory, and see that Terry really knows his umm...... plumbing stuff.
This is pretty much what golf/bowls/cricket/macrame clubs put in their own program books.
Naturally their is a bunch of typical issues to consider with something like this but hey its only a concept at the moment! :-)
we all need plumbers, electricians, appliance repairs, fencing and a bunch of other stuff from time to time, and we feel more secure dealing with referred services becuase if things were to go bad theres the whole community that has been let down.
I spent much of the last month handing fistfulls of dollars over to many different tradesmen for my new house, i would have rather given it over to one of me mates, becuase its often hard to trust a complete stranger. But i dont know what half you lot do.
I would like to suggest a seperate forum where members could describe what services they can provide to fellow members. So when we (or indeed our own freinds) need a plumber we can look up the Ozgolf directory, and see that Terry really knows his umm...... plumbing stuff.
This is pretty much what golf/bowls/cricket/macrame clubs put in their own program books.
Naturally their is a bunch of typical issues to consider with something like this but hey its only a concept at the moment! :-)
we all need plumbers, electricians, appliance repairs, fencing and a bunch of other stuff from time to time, and we feel more secure dealing with referred services becuase if things were to go bad theres the whole community that has been let down.