Who came up with the horrendous decision to add pop ups to the website? Hello Kalmbach don’t you realize people really hate these things, they slow down access to your site , probaly causing your site to discourage visitors. This is a truly bad idea, Pop Ups have killed many a good web business and made AOL into a money losing enterprise. I hope you end this misguided way off advertising. Everyone I talked to about these pop ups feels the same, there are other less annoying ways to advertise.
Just some constructive criticism from a subscriber, seller, and advertiser to Kalmbach publications,
James Sanchez
PA Model Railroad Supply
There are some very nice, FREE popup killers available for download at pcworld.com
I personally use McAfee, but that is because I get it for free from work (through the server). Panicware I hear is a good popup killer.
Like jsanchez stated, these popups are very annoying, and a real turn-off. I’m sure somewhere in the hallowed halls of Kalmback is some suit & tie who has no clue about real-world things except some “bottom-line” figure he reports to his pointy-haired boss each month. “Look Mr. VP, we can run these popups on our web site, and if only one percent of viewers go to the ad, we will increase our revenue by .0002%!” Well, Mr. VP, how about the 2.000% that quit coming to the site because of the ads, and perhaps out of disgust, quit Trains altogether?
I know that if I had to deal with the ads, and had a dial-up connection, I would have quit long ago.
Pop-ups?
I’ve never seen pop-ups…Thanks to Pop-up Stopper software. I’m glad to have proof that it works though. Here, all the time I thought internet pop-ups had been discontinued :-))
I haven’t ever had popups on the Trains Magazine forums. For the past month there’s been on the Classic Toy Trains forum. I just got one on the Model Railroader forum today. There used to be popups there all the time, but until that one today I haven’t seen them in a while in the MR forums.
