hiya toddy. im a newbie but having met eric once at the north meet. i find him very able and confident and have the highest respect for him. I dont believe he would have gone down this route if there where other options.. the more members the lower the contributions and if we (bcuk) could have raised the capitol for several sites around the country we could have had a network of woods for all members to use. as some folks may live in scotland but work in the south and vise versa they could have had access to bcuk sites reasonably close to wherever they may be.
like i said bes was set up after trying to get the woodlands going and not before posting. As far as im aware it was never set up as a competitor to bcuk but as a way to raise funds and im sure eric would agree. theyve done a lot of hard work in a short time and maybe that has caused others to think its a conflict of interests but to me i see it as a lot of enthusiasm pushing a project forward rapidly. maybe nobody thought of the repricusions of their deeds but i believe their hearts are in the right place . after a lot of negative feedback maybe all were carried away with the euphoria of proving the cynics wrong by going full steam ahead...regardless..
i sincerely hope that they are not banned from the site or anything like that as they are great guys...
like i said bes was set up after trying to get the woodlands going and not before posting. As far as im aware it was never set up as a competitor to bcuk but as a way to raise funds and im sure eric would agree. theyve done a lot of hard work in a short time and maybe that has caused others to think its a conflict of interests but to me i see it as a lot of enthusiasm pushing a project forward rapidly. maybe nobody thought of the repricusions of their deeds but i believe their hearts are in the right place . after a lot of negative feedback maybe all were carried away with the euphoria of proving the cynics wrong by going full steam ahead...regardless..
i sincerely hope that they are not banned from the site or anything like that as they are great guys...