2008 NHSA Grass Drags and Water Crossing

As the air begins to cool, riders are beginning to start thinking about putting the motorcycle back in the garage in exchange for their other passion, snowmobiling. We still may have a few months before we see any snow hit New England, but that's not going to stop a bunch of adrenaline junkies from drag racing their sleds acorss Peterson's Brookvale Farm in Fremont, NH at the 2008 New Hampshire Snowmobile Association Grass Drags and Water Crossing. If seeing snowmobiles drag race at speeds over 100mph across grass doesn't interest you, head over to the circular pond and watch the snowmobiles race across the water. That's right, snowmobiles race across water. I would highly recommend that you get there while the amateur riders are practicing because you're almost guaranteed to see a sled or two make it about halfway across the pond before slowing coming to a stop. This is the best part because snowmobiles, by nature, do not float. Nothing like watching a brand new sled sink like a rock! No worries, they are later retrieved by a pontoon boat to give the rider a chance at redemption, assuming their sled has some life left in it.

Below is footage from last year's event:


Other activities include Yamaha factory demos, Toyota Prove it Testing Grounds, ATV racing, food, drinks, snowmobile swap meet, freestyle dirt bike and snowmobile show, camping and all kinds of snowmobile vendors with the latest sleds on display. Stop by The WANT ADvertiser booth to grab a copy of The WANT AD or The WANT AD Powered for great deals on used sleds, trailers, parts and accessories.

If you're interested in getting into the growing sport of snowmobiling, check out the Snowmobile category on thewantad.com!

New 'FREE FOR THE TAKING' Category

Thewantad.com has a new 'Free for the Taking' category that features free items from all over New England. If you have some items taking up space in your garage, basement or backyard that you never use and would like to give away, call a friendly ADvisor at 1-800-2-WANT-AD to place a 'Free for the Taking' ad for free! Each 'Free for the Taking' ad runs in The WANT ADvertiser for two issues AND on thewantad.com for two weeks.

If you are a bargain hunter or just like free stuff, check out our 'Free for the Taking' category and see what free stuff has recently been posted.

Back to school items on thewantad.com

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Sho Car Rod and Custom Nationals

The 2008 Sho Car Association Rod and Custom Nationals took place this weekend at the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, MA. There was a great turnout with some unbelievable rod and customs from all over New England. The WANT ADvertiser was one of the premier sponsors and had a booth in the trade center. Below are just a few of the great vehicles that attended the show, click on the photo for a larger image.

The Heritage Annual Auto Event

The Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich, MA held their Annual Auto Event, a large car show that came from the combination of their 'Rock 'n' Roll Ramble' and their 'Antique & Classic Auto Show'. Held on Saturday, July 19th, the event brought out some of Cape Cod and New England's best antique vehicles. Among the vehicles were some expertly restored Model A's and Cadillacs, an original Shelby Cobra, Ford Thunderbirds and some classic American muscle cars.

Here are a few shots from the event:

The next auto show at the Heritage Museum and Gardens is their 6th Annual Corvette Day on Sept. 20th, 2008.

Motorcycle Night '08

If you have a motorcycle, like motorcycles or are just looking for something to do Tuesday nights, you have to check out Motorcycle Night in Lowell, MA. Here are some photos from The WANT ADvertiser's recent attendance.

The WANT ADvertiser will be at the Tuesday, September 2nd Motorcycle Night, stop by and show us your bike!

Yard Sales!

It’s the thrill of the hunt and the victory of the bargain that makes going to yard sales so much fun. Sometimes you have something specific in mind, other times it is finding a gorgeous antique telephone table for $20 that you never knew you wanted but now can’t live without. Finding a bracelet that “looks cute” for a quarter and then having it appraise for over $100, now what can be better that?
Having a yard sale can be just as gratifying. Neighbors that you rarely get a glimpse of will come to your sale and strike up conversations; this opens the communication for a neighborhood yard sale next year. You get to clear out the attic or basement and make some money doing it. No better time to take inventory of items to place in The WANT ADvertiser!

Die hard “Salers” are strategic. We gather locations (take note sellers, advertising will draw a bigger crowd that just posting signs around town); map the route according to either the earliest start time or the one closest to a drive-thru coffee shop, grab a friend and go. This is not for the weak as we will even brave possible lightning storms in the hope that sales are still on just to get that collection of Dr. Seuss books for $10 or less.

I personally love autumn sales the best for going to or having my own yard sale. The temperature is comfortable and there is that crisp smell in the air; perfect for a vanilla chai coffee and a pumpkin muffin. So place your yard sale announcement in The WANT ADvertiser and be on the lookout for that bargain hunter with a determined look ready to make an offer. Hey, I’ll even bring the vanilla chai.
-Sharlene

First Hollywood, Now Television

A few months ago The WANT ADvertiser was contacted by a movie studio that was seeking copies of The WANT AD from the 80's to appear in newsstand scene in Bristol, Rhode Island for the upcoming film "Hachiko: A Dog's Story" starring Richard Gere, Joan Allen and Jason Alexander. The movie studio informed The WANT ADvertiser that they were able to stretch their budget by purchasing used equipment and props from The WANT AD.



Recently, The WANT AD has also been featured in the small claims court television show "The People's Court". Click the image above for a small clip of the program.

Congratulations Celtics!

The T REX

It takes something very unique to get a buzz going around The WANT AD office. We have seen all kinds of unique vehicles sold through our publications and thewantad.com, high end sports cars like Ferraris, Vipers and Lamborghinis, 6 wheeled ATVs that float, custom chopper motorcycles and trikes, dune buggies, you name it. But recently one of our sales reps had the pleasure of going for a ride in the Campagna T Rex. (Click the image below for a full size photo.)

This thing is the street legal cross between a dragster motorcycle and a go-kart, with a top speed of 180 mph and very little between you and the blurred road beneath you. My first questions – Where can I buy it and how much? The answers… well you will have to wait for next week’s issue of Powered. You wont miss it, the T Rex is on the cover!

Record Breaking Heat

It was a snowy winter and it looks like its going to be a hot summer. Today we broke a Boston record of 96 degrees! I know at this time last year I was scrambling for an AC unit to stick in the window of my inferno/aparment. I went to a couple stores but they were very expensive. Luckily The WANT AD has an entire section of AC units and I got a great one cheap!

People are always moving, from apartment to apartment to condo to house to houseboat, wherever, and they don't always need to bring their used-for-a-few-seasons AC unit. So it goes into The WANT AD!

There are a bunch of 6,000 BTU units good for cooling your apartment. Theres even a 100,000 BTU unit that could probably turn your home into a skating rink. The choice is yours.

-Justin

Rick.

One of the nice things about the way things are here at The WANT AD is that we have a lot of customers we work with every week. It's not just a name on a screen, it's "Kevin from Orange" and we know exactly who it is. It's nice to have that continuity of knowing you'll be talking to certain people on certain days (and yes, if someone goes missing, we do get concerned. Fortunately, it's almost always that they went on vacation.)

However, some advertisers have moved beyond this. The perfect example of this is Rick from Silhouette Motors in Brockton. If you take a look at the pictures of the cars he's advertising, you'll pretty quickly see why. It's not often that the advertiser appears in the ads. Rick has adorned many desktops on the computers here at The WANT AD. We've put up framed photos, created works of art, and decorated people's desks with his pictures. We also might have created a wallpaper border out of his ads to put up in a manager's office, and there might be a Rick bobblehead (complete with cigarette) somewhere in the offices here.




Thanks to folks like Rick, we know that you can always find something interesting in our books.

We've got tons of new bike ads on thewantad.com! Visit The WANT AD at Motorcycle Night at Lowell on June 3rd. For more info, check out MotorcycleNight.com

First Car Show of the Season

The WANT ADvertiser's first show of the '08 season was the Merrimack College Automotive Club's 3rd Annual Car Show. A variety of cars attended despite the rainy weather. There were rows of Mustangs, Camaros, Corvettes, Hot Rods and Customs, Exotics and some of the largest pick-up trucks I've ever seen. Here are just a few photos:





Let me know what shows you will be attending this summer, shoot me an email at JLord@thewantad.com

The WANT AD Spotlight On: NEWSBREAK

This month our Spotlight is on Newsbreak, located on the South Shore of Massachusetts in Swansea. Newsbreak is quite unique! It prides itself in being the largest source of magazines in the area, carrying over 7,000 titles. If you're looking for a newspaper, you'll find 50 daily and weekly publications. Trading card enthusiasts will also be impressed by Newsbreak's selection. While you're there, you can also pick up greeting cards for those birthdays, anniversaries and weddings coming up. Newsbreak's uniqueness is not only in its large selection of print media, but also in the fact that it's a convenience store that offers a lounge area where you can purchase coffee and pastry while you enjoy playing Keno or your favorite lottery games. It's not just a convenience store, it's a destination. Newsbreak has been in business for 22 years and is located on Route 6 at the Swansea Plaza in Swansea, MA. When you're in the area, stop in, browse around and say hello to the owners, James Stanton and Robert Rego. You're sure to find something to appeal to your interests at Newsbreak. While you're there be sure to look for The WANT Advertiser and WANT AD – Powered to your left when you enter the store.

Swansea's Newsbreak is an exceptional establishment. We are pleased to be associated with this great business. Come in, shop and browse and tell Jim and Bob you saw their ad in The WANT AD.

What makes thewantad.com different?

I am often asked what makes thewantad.com different than other classified advertising websites. There are many sources for buying and selling used items, but few can offer what thewantad.com can.

Thewantad.com is run by WANT AD Publications, the company that has been locally owned and operated and publishing The WANT ADvertiser for over 50 years. The reason the WANT AD has been so successful for so many years is its dedication to customer service.
At The WANT AD we have more employees in our call center alone than most classified ad sites have altogether. If you want to place an ad over the phone, just call 1-800-292-6823, they can even give you advice on your ads description. That alone is a feature almost no other classified ad site can match, just try finding a phone number on other sites!

What makes our website different? Unlike other sites that rely on users to flag and remove inappropriate or fraudulent ads, we proofread all ads before we post them on the website. This way we know exactly what ads are going to be posted. When you browse thewantad.com you know that all the ads are genuine.
If you aren't familiar with what kinds of ads can be found on other sites, read this article!

Some classified ad sites even block the sales of pets. We have hundreds of ads for animals, its one of our largest categories. We are New England's most popular source for puppies, kittens, fish, birds, horses and all kinds of miscellaneous pets.

The best thing about posting an ad on thewantad.com is where else your ad will be seen. Unlike other sites that only have a web presence, we have a print publication! We print all of our ads into The WANT ADvertiser and/or WANT AD - Powered, so your ad is seen by thousands of web users AND thousands of print readers, every week. Our print publications are sold at over 3,500 retail locations throughout New England.


Another way thewantad.com is different is that we are a local company. We aren't some start-up company in Silicon Valley in California, we don't outsource labor all over the world, we are right here in Hudson, MA. Feel free to stop by during business hours and we will take your ad in person. You can even bring your item and we will take a photo of it for no extra charge, hows that for service?


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Justin Lord

Marketing Coordinator

My Work Study Program at The WANT AD

My name is Eitan Tye and for the past two weeks, I have been observing and helping out in all the different departments of the Want Ad, as part of the work study program at my school. I am a ninth grader at the Park School in Brookline and I will most likely be attending Concord Academy next year. Because I live in Newton, about a fourty minute drive away from the Want Ad office in Hudson, my parents were unable to drop me off and pick me up every day. Justin Lord, the Marketing Coordinator at the Want Ad, lives near me in Brighton and stopped by my house on his way to and from work every day.

I learned a great deal about the process of publishing a magazine during my time at the Want Ad. I spent time in the graphics, marketing, circulation, facilities, finance and human resources departments and also spent some time in the call center. I realized that there are copious detailed and complicated aspects of creating the Want Ad and Powered, and that it also takes a tremendous amount of work to keep the website running smoothly. In addition, one of the most significant things that I noticed was how passionate all the employees at the Want Ad are about producing the best possible magazine.

-Eitan Tye

We have a new section on thewantad.com called Featured Items. Two featured items appear on the homepage and change every time you refresh the page, 10 ads total. To see all the featured items click the Featured Items button (kind of self explanatory don't you think?) or Click here. If you want your ad to be a Featured Item give us a call at 1-800-292-6823 for details. Our Featured Item customers have been getting a tremendous response because the Featured Items are seen by thousands of buyers every day.

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Super Bowl Bound

Now that the Patriots have locked up the AFC Championship, I now have 2 weeks to both reflect on the past and plan for Super Bowl XLII.


I hope younger fans appreciate what is happening in Patriots Nation right now. Not that I am old, but I still have the bad memories of “stars” such as Millen, Chung and Harlow in my head. Growing up, I followed the Patriots, but was hardly a die-hard fan. We never saw the Pats play at home, because the games never sold out and were blacked out on TV. We barely got to know our team and, looking back, that was probably for the best. There was no internet to get info on our team. I was too young to care about reading about the games in the newspaper. So I followed the teams that got the national coverage. I was a fan of Jim Kelly and Warren Moon and I don’t apologize for it.

But since the Krafts purchased the team, everything has changed. Better teams, better stadium, better coverage and better technology. If I miss a game, I can get recaps On-Demand or online; stations dedicated to sports and the NFL; superstars playing for the home team. I never thought I would own so many player jerseys from the home team!

Enjoy it while it lasts. San Francisco 49ers fans never thought that “Young to Rice” would have to be the last good news they would get for over a decade.

Now on to hosting the Super Bowl Party. I need to upgrade my living room if I am going to host this year’s event. Two mismatched loveseats and a 20” tube television is not the way this game should be experienced. I’m going to upgrade the TV using The WANT AD, and sell my old one to someone who needs a great small set for the kids. I will also need an oversized couch and some recliners. With the game starting in the evening, I feel the need to entertain during the afternoon. The Patriots slot machine I have been eying should make a great distraction, as well as 8’ pool table. Finally, I’ll need extra cash for food. Selling my film camera and computer should net me the funds necessary.


Don’t forget to check out The WANT AD’s Patriots Store. All your fan shopping in one place! www.thewantad.com/patriots.


Go Pats!!!