The registry is valuable sorta like the list is valuable. When someone
has a particular question and the list provides the particular answer that's
valuable ! Is there a way to quantify valuable. I don't know but I see it
expressed on the list - every day.
When someone has a particular BJ8 question and the BJ8 registry provides
the particular answer - that's valuable ! The documentation contained in the
BJ8 registry becomes more valuable - every day. Thanks Steve !
Dick M / WA State
----- Original Message -----
From: BJ8Healeys<mailto:sbyers@ec.rr.com>
To: Healey<mailto:Healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:34 PM
Subject: was: Ebay BJ8, now registries
Hello, Gus -
I have sent you a detailed list of ways the BJ8 registry has been helpful
to
owners over the last two years. Anyone else who wants to see it, please
contact me directly.
It's safe to say that for most individual Healey owners, the practical
purpose
of a registry is little or nothing. However, for the worldwide Healey
community in general and for those owners who have occasion to use the
registry for information and find what they are looking for, it has quite a
bit of value. As you can see in the list I sent, some owners benefit
without
ever knowing there IS a registry. The value depends mostly on two things:
the percentage (of total production) of cars and their details that the
registry "captures", and how interested and active the keeper of the
registry
is in being the middle-man and using the data to help owners with their
questions and problems.
Obviously, the more cars that can be "captured" in a registry along with
their
details, the more value -- or potential value -- a registry has, or is more
frequently successful in helping owners, which is the same thing.
Besides being able to help specific owners, registries can allow us to
learn
more about the cars, which is important to enthusiasts of the marque: how
they were manufactured, how they are configured and distributed around the
world today, statistics concerning production, checks of reality -- how the
cars actually left the assembly line against what production planners and
the
parts books say was intended.
So, even though you personally might believe that you will receive no
benefit
from a registry, the contribution of the information about your car will
increase the potential value of the registry for others. Isn't that a
worthwhile thing to do? Most Healey enthusiasts would say Yes, although
there
are some owners, unfortunately, who consider the details of their cars no
business of anyone but themselves. Those are the ones who will not be
receiving original window stickers, handbooks, Bills of Sale, photos of the
car on Day 1, etc. from former owners.
Steve Byers (loves Emma Peel, but simply adores Tara King)
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC
----- Original Message -----
From: Gus
To: Healey
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: Ebay BJ8
What is the practical purpose of a registry?
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