GoHunt - Giveaways - I guess not!

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Interesting that they advertise that they are doing giveaways for their members, but they haven't done a giveaway in 4 months.....

Anyone feel like this is false advertising and get a feeling that they are being ripped off?

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Interesting that they advertise that they are doing giveaways for their members, but they haven't done a giveaway in 4 months.....

Anyone feel like this is false advertising and get a feeling that they are being ripped off?

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Totally noticed that.
No giveaways. The hunting videos are basically shot on an iphone now. Content is crap.
Things must be going bad for them or they just got greedy.
 
I’ve always questioned how their business model could work at a larger scale and what the bottom line looks like. Hunters are such a small demographic and to support the software engineering, data science, GIS, and marketing work needed for their platform is a lot of overhead. At least companies like onX appeal to other markets. I wonder if they are running into financial troubles.
 
Interesting topic. I was wondering about the giveaways too. I have been a member basically since the beginning, but have thought about discontinuing my membership in recent years as I feel like the information quality is diminishing. I think the thing keeping me is the time it would take to look into the odds on all the state specific pages vs. an easy user interface on GH, as well as the shop has some good deals at times and I supplement my onx scouting with their maps.

The clearest indicator of complacency to me is the upkeep of their original core asset, information about the units. How many unit pages do you go to on GH now and the descriptions are generalized to 20 other units in the same state or extremely outdated and haven't been updated in 5-7 years (as it is advertising a new season or change still in the description but happened X number of years ago.)
 
Wasn't planning on renewing my subscription this fall solely due to them not doing the giveaways anymore. Only real benefit I saw in Gohunt over OnX was the slim chance you could win a pretty sweet prize every month
 
Interesting topic. I was wondering about the giveaways too. I have been a member basically since the beginning, but have thought about discontinuing my membership in recent years as I feel like the information quality is diminishing. I think the thing keeping me is the time it would take to look into the odds on all the state specific pages vs. an easy user interface on GH, as well as the shop has some good deals at times and I supplement my onx scouting with their maps.

The clearest indicator of complacency to me is the upkeep of their original core asset, information about the units. How many unit pages do you go to on GH now and the descriptions are generalized to 20 other units in the same state or extremely outdated and haven't been updated in 5-7 years (as it is advertising a new season or change still in the description but happened X number of years ago.)

This is one reason why I stopped.
Plus I just stopped playing the point game and instead play the land owner tag game.
 
I’ve always questioned how their business model could work at a larger scale and what the bottom line looks like. Hunters are such a small demographic and to support the software engineering, data science, GIS, and marketing work needed for their platform is a lot of overhead. At least companies like onX appeal to other markets. I wonder if they are running into financial troubles.

Sartini's are worth about half a Billion. Unless lorenzo got kicked to the curb he's probably adequately funded.
 
Its interesting what people value as this is not something I really care about.

I'm just happy they have held the price @ $149 and added maps despite 30% inflation over the past 8 years.
 
I’m guessing their not making much money off the gohunt service. They’ll need almost 5,900 subscriptions for every $1M in revenue (not profit). At $170 a year, I don’t imagine that the market of hunters willing to shell out, year after year, is huge. Especially when OnX is the much more recognizable player. I came across some info that said their annual revenue was 19.1M and retail revenue was a little over 1M per month give or take. IF that is true, annual Gohunt service revenue could be around $3-4M or +/- 20k subs.

When you count FTE costs, office rent, servers, data licensing, app stores and credit cards taking their cut, marketing, sponsorships, giveaways, and everything else, you can easily see that the money disappears fast. And that’s before the owner making any money

They do have the store side of the business so they may be willing to subsidize the app and website since that’s what “put them on the map” in the first place, but I’d be surprised if gohunt itself makes much money
 
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