Was wondering what your thoughts are regarding this club.? Lots of great info in their magazine. Just wonderin thats all Thank you Wil 
October 4, 2011 at 12:50 am
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October 4, 2011 at 1:09 am #998887
If I recall, they know how to make $$. Didn’t get mine. After weighing out the benefits, I’ll go buy a new crankbait for $6 and keep my club dues.
October 4, 2011 at 1:21 am #998894I was a member for a few years. Liked the magazine alright. I got a decent amount of “field test” items, though nothing too great. I basically look at the “dues” as a subscription fee for the magazine and the field test items as a bonus. I let my membership lapse, but I would join again.
In order to get field test items, you need to fill out an application after each item you receive. It’s easy to do online.October 4, 2011 at 1:21 am #998895It’s a big club.. if you have $$ your in… although they will send you a pack of 3 or 4 black hooks to “fieldtest”….
October 4, 2011 at 2:54 am #998913their magazine has gone down hill. they send you items you did not request or ask for. the only test items i received in 5 years were wingit bobbers and enormous salt water circle hooks.
October 4, 2011 at 11:34 am #998935I hear a lot of people say they don’t get things to field test. If you follow their instructions to a T, you will. I would get things every few months. I was a member for three years or so. Things I remember getting: a mesh bag that goes in your livewell, a set of fillet knives, an Uglystik…there’s more, it’s just been a few years.
October 4, 2011 at 12:11 pm #998945Itwas my “dis-pleasure” to be very involved with NAMG, which is the parent organization for NAF. The whole system (a number of “affinty clubs”)is in MHO, a front with little benefit to subscribers. Yes, you got a pack of hooks initially ( two years ago there was still a full warehouse skid of them in the rack)and a chance to field test products.
However, the main focus of NAMG itself is to encourage “life membership”, whereupon, a subscriber was inundated with further “offers” of free product.
Bottom line is that nothing is truly free with NAMG.
I would venture that so much more knowledge can be gained here at IDO fishing, than at NAF, that the cost of a subscription is much better spent on new tackle.
Just the 2 cents of a guy who knows…October 4, 2011 at 12:12 pm #998946I used to work for them when it was owned by the Burkes. It was a good company to work for back then. Then I went in for a job interview a few years ago to find they sold it. The same company also has other clubs now like gardening and poop.
October 4, 2011 at 2:26 pm #998995Quote:
However, the main focus of NAMG itself is to encourage “life membership”, whereupon, a subscriber was inundated with further “offers” of free product.
“Bottom line is that nothing is truly free with NAMG”
Been there, done that, never again with these guys.
October 4, 2011 at 3:53 pm #999016I was with them a while back and didn’t renew. I just recently signed up again…so far I have gotten a good spool of Trilene, a rapala and 3 fairly decent fillet knives and it has only been about 4-5 months.
I doubt I will reup though and I definitely won’t be going for the life membership. I did the 3 year deal when I signed up and they are already hitting me up to extend another 3 years and dangling more fillet knives to sweeten the deal which I don’t need so not much of a carrot to dangle.Might be worth it for a while to get some of the free stuff but beyond that probably a waste of money…..just my opinion.
October 4, 2011 at 3:55 pm #999017Quote:
I hear a lot of people say they don’t get things to field test. If you follow their instructions to a T, you will. I would get things every few months. I was a member for three years or so. Things I remember getting: a mesh bag that goes in your livewell, a set of fillet knives, an Uglystik…there’s more, it’s just been a few years.
followed every instruction to a t. this was 10 years ago.
October 4, 2011 at 7:21 pm #999063Quote:
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However, the main focus of NAMG itself is to encourage “life membership”, whereupon, a subscriber was inundated with further “offers” of free product.
“Bottom line is that nothing is truly free with NAMG”
Been there, done that, never again with these guys.
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October 4, 2011 at 8:56 pm #999084I was a member for a short time and would never join again or encourage anyone else to join.
October 4, 2011 at 9:48 pm #999090It is all about the $$, they sent me a single hook and one isuue of their mag, I didn’t pay $24.00 and they turned it over to a collection agency, “good luck with that”!
October 5, 2011 at 11:05 am #999160NAFC is in reality NOT a club, but a 3rd rate magazine that uses the promises of great give a ways as a selling point.
They also publish the Handyman, North American Hunting and Motorcycle. All are pushed at being clubs with the same promises of give aways.
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