CAMC magazine. Maybe I'm alone in thinking this

I kicked this off mainly to,express disappointment that the magazine has not moved forward in our 6 years of absence from the Club.  I am not critical of the Club's other services, because we use their sites (some 70 nights this year), their insurance and their breakdown service. All these things are first class.  However, I do also receive boating and flying magazines, and they both regularly get updates and revamps, and survey readers to ask how improve things.  The fact that no-one from the Club bothers to respond to posts such as this leads me  to think things are not going to change anytime soon.

I wouldn’t worry about any Club policy changes DK, any kind of change, little or big tends to send Disgusted of Doncaster or Overjoyed of Ottery typing merrily on forum at some point or other.

And any kind of change is always accomplished without any warning or consultation with any of the membership except the very small minority on various committees who get told it is happening just a little bit earlier than the masses.

In our short membership time have found 3 ads to have been beneficial.

Colourfence - we had difficulty finding reliable fencing contractors to replace our garden fence. Saw the colour fence ad in the CAMC magazine, found the local installer supplier. Came to look at the job when he said he would. Quoted earlier than he said he would. Installed on the day he said he would. A superb product with a 25 year guarantee . Our neighbours are still struggling to find a fencing contractor to replace theirs 3 years on. The local guy is a caravanner to boot.

G-Tech strimmer - excellent bit of kit with a second battery and additional blades in the offer. Couldn't be beaten.

Nissan Qashqai - We were looking to change a car, this offer with the towbar fitted the bill. Super car that meets our needs.

Never expected the 'club' to promote 'members' needs, certainly in respect of the abysmal quality of caravans. It's a commercial entity driven purely by money, not 'members' concerns.  The magazine reinforces that ethos. Once you accept that use to best advantage. 

hmm 🤔 - most of club magazines all over the world are full for advertises, because they reaches these special customer. But I think that we will loose in the near future the paper magazine and will only use screens from smartphones...up to this I accept advertises an hope for inspiring articles. As an continental member I often whish a UK-map at the articles introducing areas or landscapes

Maps showing where places are is a good idea for certain articles as long as these are carefully checked by the production team. Mistakes are made sometimes so always check things for yourself too. 

Nice to hear from a continental member Nordluecht. 

Are we talking about reading the Mag or using it for other(toilet) purposes ?

Would like the Mag to do serious Electric Vehicle compatability tests for Towing & which Phev is best for a 1700kg Caravan ?  etc., we live in interesting times, which club sites could be affected by Ultra low emission zones in large Cities  and such. plenty to talk about.

Also low weight gas bottles....oops too late C&CC mag already covered that.  😲

The magazine could be read by several hundred thousand people and so has to have a general approach. Stuff that doesn’t interest me I just ignore but read the reviews and touring in UK.  What does worry me is when there might be a glaring problem that is not mentioned. For example a recent car review had a very low tow ball limit that most caravans would exceed and a caravan review where the tow ball was estimated to be 127kg. Again no mention that only a few cars can handle that.  Could lead to people buying on the basis of review and being uninsured.