I have no problem whatsoever with yours, or any other sponsor adds. I very much appreciate your support which helps pay for this forum. Not to mention you have great deals and service. As the saying goes, this is a win - win.
IMO we are fortunate to have not only this forum, but the number of quality businesses sponsoring it, yours included.
Thanks,
Ed
On second thought the only issue I have with Pat's postings of his specials is that we don't see specials on steam engines. ;-) Hint, hint . . . .
Keep posting - forum supporters are important, and we appreciate the great deals. Advertising special sales is different than a private individual selling their own trains, but I can see where it could be a fine line.
One more voice to add to the chorus - Post away Pat!
Thank you for your sponsorship of the Forum and OGRR mag. I haven't availed myself of your services (yet!), but will keep an eye on your specials.
If those in charge say your posts are ok that is fine with me. You are after all helping to finance this forum. Sometimes I look at your ad posts and sometimes I am tired of being bombarded with ads(not yours in particular, just in general) and I just skip by them. Nobody is forcing anyone to read them. I do not know why people that do not like them just can not skip the posts they do not like and move on. Same with TV and radio shows but that is a different subject for a different forum.
Hi Pat, I for one like your post so keep on as far as I'm concerned.
But do you know what really drives me nuts? What really drives me nuts is the fact that the most hits any of my threads ever got was maybe twenty-five or so. But you draw three pluss pages on a topic about your topics. 
Dito to the postive comments above.
Got my 3rd shipment from deals I have seen posted by Pat's trains. Expanding the Williams fleet and happy with the pricing.
Pat keep on posting your specials. Your company is helping to support our hobby by purchasing add space in O Guage Magazine and you sponsor the forum as well. No problem with a thread that is giving all of us information regarding a special that Patrick's Trains having. The more information the better it is for all of us.
BTW I clipped out your add from O Guage Railroading and put it on a roadside billboard. Beeing that my name is also Patrick the sign looks pretty cool as it is the first thing visitors see when they come to visit Patsburg ( my fictitious railroad town ). Plus ii has your website on there and potentially could get you some business from my train buddies. :-)
Patrick W
Patsburg, Md. Home to the Free State Junction RR .... Where the trains run on time.
Unfortunately, there are always a few who need to express themselves loudly, and negatively, for whatever reason, whether they have cause or not. More often than not the have no cause, just need to build their egos or what ever. I guess they are the "entitled" few.
Pat says: I often wonder how many of the blowhards run off people approaching this forum or hobby for the first time. I've learned to ignore the blowhards.
Hello, All
I just want to get some feedback about my posting Specials on the forum. If the membership wants me to stop I will discontinue offering these specials. I am a Forum Sponsor and you see my adds on the top right of the forum heading. I also am a advertiser in the OGR magazine. I feel I am offering a service to member specials only.
Pat --
I appreciate not only your sponsorship of the forum and advertising in OGR, but also how you treated me like a long-lost friend when I stopped in your store on my way back to Dayton from DC last year.
I used to work in a sales and marketing department of a consulting firm, helping with pre-sales consulting. I can still hear the Sales VP cautioning people, "Don't be a PITA to the customer." If you keep that rule in mind and limit the frequency of your postings so you don't bug people, people will read your postings and, hopefully, buy from you.
I read your postings, especially those on non-cataloged items since I sometimes pick up an oddball item that catches my fancy. A few times I thought you were posting too frequently, almost in the PITA or "in your face" mode. During the same period, I stopped the e-mails I received from a major on-line florist and a major department store because they were mailing me almost every day or even several times a day. You need to find that fine line between informing-advertising and going overboard. Those two firms obviously kept crossing that line even when I reduced the mailing option they presented to me to the barest minimum option.
You might want to consider posting a "tip" that every O-gauger should know and then include some sales special at the bottom of the posting. This would be much along the lines of the "Guylines" section Mens Warehouse used to have on their website and in e-mails on "the things every man should know how to do". (In their case, it was practical things like how to match up colored shirts, suits and ties; make a pot of coffee, select a wine, and so forth that gentlemen need to know.)
Pat,
I've seen your posts and have no issues whatsoever. You have paid to advertise here and in the magazine. You're trying to make a living like the rest of us-we're not all "rockerfellers, gates, buffets, etc...
I know there is a store in LI that is a sponsor here and he does the same like you.
Keep on posting... the specials.
Pat:
This is my second post on the thread. Just bought the Williams Amtrak Genesis set on Wednesday from you.
Due to your posts, I became aware of some Williams items I had been contemplating that you had at prices that smoked everyone else. I will say that since I have been looking to add a few Williams items to the stable, I am pretty knowledgeable of who has what at what price. And clearly you were the best prices on what I got. So, as I noted in my prior post, please continue to share whatever you want to share - deals, tips, knowledge and opinions. It is all welcome on my screen. And I read it too!
Pat,
Please keep posting, I look forward to them and the great service you provide, not to your customers but to this forum as well!
I love your specials Pat. Keep up the good work!!!!
Lets see some SG tinplate specials!!!
Sunrise
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