Hi
to all
www.realsreels.com
supporters.
I
DO NOT SELL and NEVER
WILL SELL reels for profit, parts etc but have been known to share any spares
that I have or help source the same and provide private contacts to people
requesting same. I do swap and exchange items, including Aussie reels, lures
to friends. Please enquire as to my doubles as it
constantly changes.
As
you know this is a
NOT for PROFIT
website with the primary purpose/vision of freely providing as much Record
ABU information in terms of text, graphics (and eventually video!), regular
and up to the minute friendly help and general communication for ABU fans
worldwide. It has long been my dream to achieve this status as a world’s
best practice ABU website. The website has been online almost
3 years now and since October 2006, there
have been over 3 500 000 page
impressions (according to Google data), so I know there are a
lot of you enjoying the website! The unique IP
addresses logged recently (last
20 months) number almost 27 000
users.
Foremost I have thanked elsewhere, my son Fintan for the
programming, my first Swedish mate Uffe Edefuhr with his immense ABU
Record knowledge. Now, more and more new friends are offering their
assistance to this website, notably
Tim Parratt for creating the highly
detailed and useful pictorial Service Guides
and
Finn Bendorff Pedersen for his
bright and cheerful original sketches/cartoons
now illustrating this site. Hopefully, in future we will have
some light hearted stories to be shared by our more literary ABU
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This
has in part occurred due to the support of dozens of people who have donated
family heirloom reels, rods, lures, badges, books, accessories and paperwork
for me to share here. Also nearly a hundred people who have been willing
to share their treasured images and knowledge , and not forgetting the
thousands of beginning and experienced collectors who keep returning making
this site so necessary for all of us. I am still looking for previously here
undisplayed scans of ANY ABU paper work ie manuals, catalog details, factory
listings etc that could be shared with ABU fans worldwide. All items are
documented, acknowledged and shared for all to enjoy. Many
thanks! |
I
thank
those 48 people around the globe, who have availed of the subsidized
Len Borgstom ABU History Book offer, . They have all sold out now.
See here
for what was
http://www.realsreels.com/abuenglishbook1.htm
Apart
from those of you who have actually gifted items of ABU products to my
website to expand this collection, ( many anonymously) , I still need to pay
out cash to host the site. I have seen sites where a nominal few dollars is
“volunteered” but I prefer not to request this. I also freely provide links
to sites of value to fans with no request for payment for such advertising.
Glad to help both sellers and buyers.
I
have been investigating
Hosting costs and how to minimize these while continuing to expand,
hopefully making the site as a dot net ( .net) database driven one with
extensive lists of models, parts, schematics all on one reliable fast
website.
I am soon hoping to be able updates direct to your e-mail box, should you
choose to freely subscribe to my RSS news feed. (Crossed fingers!)
Should you enjoy on a regular basis what I am trying to achieve
here, I am always willing and grateful to receive a few dollars donation to
my Paypal
( reals@netspace.net.au ) account
each year to help support continuing development.
For
those of you who have chosen to link to my website
www.realsreels.com
for your E-bay sales, I do hope the reference helps with your business.
Those who wish to, merely ask so I know about the link and I include you in
my favourite sellers list.
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Another
nil cost way of providing
ongoing
support
can be shown to support this site, is to
click a couple of times
on the sidebar GOOGLE Advertisements
(you don’t need to buy from these places, merely click and load the
page) as I am credited with 7c US for each click of support by
yourself. Who knows the new site may be of benefit to you.
Tight Lines
Wayne Real |
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