Unless you want your ad to appear in just one medium, classified ads submitted to The Saab Club of Canada will appear in the club’s monthly newsletter, the Gryphon, and on the classified page of the club’s website. The requirements for submission of classified ads to both the website and newsletter are the same.

Deadline

The website has no deadline and ads will be posted on it shortly after payment, but the deadline for inclusion in the monthly newsletter is 5:00 p.m. on the second Wednesday of each month. Ads appear for three months; if you no longer need it sooner than that, please let me know.

Composing and Submitting Your Ad

Before sending me your ad at Editor [at] SaabClub [dot] ca, please read the table below.
 

	Content	Size	Format
Text	Please make sure that your text forms a complete ad (e.g. include your desired contact info in the text and don’t rely upon me to guess whether you want your name to appear or that the e-mail address from which you sent the ad is the one that you want to appear in the ad). When deciding what contact information to put in your ad, consider whether you want your full name or phone number on the web, either by themselves or associated with any e-mail address you decide to provide. I'm informed by our webmaster that an e-mail address in ads on the website will automatically be obfuscated in an attempt to avoid it from being harvested by spam bots. Unfortunately, we can only try--we cannot guarantee that it won't be harvested.	The area for the text is limited to roughly that of a business card (10 cm by 5 cm or 4" by 2"). For those of you who know how to use the Statistics feature of the Properties function of word processors to find out how many characters there are in a document, that's about 550 characters, including spaces.	In the body of an e-mail, or in a .txt, .doc, .wpd, or .rtf file.
Photos	If you don't want your licence plate to be legible in your photo, it's up to you to obscure it.	Photos appear on the website at 96 dpi and appear in the newsletter in black and white about 5cm square at about 200 dpi, so don’t send me a file greater than 300kb—either crop the photo to that size or reduce its dpi.	.jpg, .tif, .gif, or .bmp files attached to an e-mail and not embedded in it.

Cost and Payment

Classified ads are free to members. For non-members:

• text only ad-$20.00
• text and image-$30.00

Payment can be made by:

• cheque (e-mail me at Editor [at] SaabClub [dot] ca for the appropriate address);
• copying and pasting the following charge card authorization into a file, printing it out and completing it (if your printing isn’t legible, it may delay processing) and then sending it using one of the methods below.

I authorize The Saab Club of Canada to debit my MasterCard/VISA for $____ for a classified ad.

Cardholder’s Name: _______________________________________

Card Number ________________________ expiry _______

Signature: _________________________Date: __________

Methods of sending the completed authorization:

• email-scan the completed form and transmit it as an attachment (in pdf, tif, jpeg) to Treasurer [at] SaabClub [dot] ca
• fax--fax the completed form to the club's fax 1-866-580-2261
• mail--(e-mail me at Editor [at] SaabClub [dot] ca for the appropriate address)

I've tried to anticipate what information you might need to submit an ad but if I haven't answered your particular question, please feel free to contact me.

Gryphon Editor
Editor [at] SaabClub [dot] ca