John,
I'm sure that you have the facts right.
My personal view sets different priorities. I found your "Lodestones"
site and Skip's "Vpmail" (or did it have a different name back then ?)
very soon after their inception. Being a visitor from overseas your
site was invaluable to me. It gave me a start into the VP comp game.
Up unto then I was a Blackjack player. Skip's site had some
interesting food for thought, but the day to day changes the LV locals
were exchanging didn't apply to me.
When you moved to LV your focus moved a little from the visitors to
the locals point of view. But your site still had great value to me.
When you started to charge for "Lodestones", I was paying a very
reasonable price for valuable information.
When Skip took over your site, the focus went so much to locals that I
cancled my subscription after one year.
For the record: I voted for John Kelly this year as I did last year. I
met him personally only once exactly like Skip.
Regards,
Heppel
Sorta-kinda but not really. Skip already had an inventory
spreadsheet up and some strategy cards and articles as well as the
vp-mail group. What I did was give more detail (how many machines,
where exactly they were located, slot club summaries, etc.) which
rapidly evolved into the "Top-40" page. Some sage (A.P. himself, if I
recall correctly) emailed me something along the lines of "nice job;
how about doing something similar with comps?" This begat the pages
devoted to comps, rooms offers, and eventually everything from buffets
to free shuttles. Eventually Skip and I merged sites, all of which is
the ancestor of his current "VP Insider" site. But Skip was there first.
---- Albert Pearson <a-p@...> wrote:
> My memory may be failing me on this, but didn't John Kelly's
Lodestone site
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, John Kelly <lodestone@...> wrote:
> pre-date Skip's site ?