Just ain't right!!!
AMP Racing
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Washington TWP NJ
2023 C5 of the Year Finalist - Modified
2017 C5 of Year Finalist
St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12
Thanks for bringing this to our attention... I gave him the red coupler through the "pay it forward" thread.
Karma's a bitch
Karma's a bitch
AMP Racing
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 10,757
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From: Washington TWP NJ
2023 C5 of the Year Finalist - Modified
2017 C5 of Year Finalist
St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12
Also, Mr Rare 98 vette - what you have done has much larger impact than just a few of us mad at you ... it makes everyone that has ever been involved with - or ever might think they want to be involved with - the 'pay it forward' thread to be sceptical about being part of it. The thread was, and is, supposed to be a 'forum thing' where vette owners can help other vette owners out with a feeling of good will towards men. will we ever really know the fall out that this has caused? I dont know... it's too bad.
While the parts you recieved are yours to do with as you please, they were given to you under the pretense that you needed them for your vette - to make your vette experience a better experience. So, Manny, sell the parts if you want to. Just remember where they came from and people here will remember you for quite a while.
Sad day at the Forum...
While the parts you recieved are yours to do with as you please, they were given to you under the pretense that you needed them for your vette - to make your vette experience a better experience. So, Manny, sell the parts if you want to. Just remember where they came from and people here will remember you for quite a while.
Sad day at the Forum...
Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Cambridge Ontario
St. Jude Donor '07
Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 2,300
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From: Cambridge Ontario
St. Jude Donor '07
Also, Mr Rare 98 vette - what you have done has much larger impact than just a few of us mad at you ... it makes everyone that has ever been involved with - or ever might think they want to be involved with - the 'pay it forward' thread to be sceptical about being part of it. The thread was, and is, supposed to be a 'forum thing' where vette owners can help other vette owners out with a feeling of good will towards men. will we ever really know the fall out that this has caused? I dont know... it's too bad.
While the parts you recieved are yours to do with as you please, they were given to you under the pretense that you needed them for your vette - to make your vette experience a better experience. So, Manny, sell the parts if you want to. Just remember where they came from and people here will remember you for quite a while.
Sad day at the Forum...
While the parts you recieved are yours to do with as you please, they were given to you under the pretense that you needed them for your vette - to make your vette experience a better experience. So, Manny, sell the parts if you want to. Just remember where they came from and people here will remember you for quite a while.
Sad day at the Forum...
Lepus-temperamentalus
Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Roswell Ga
It sounds as if it was a deliberate attempt to get someone to feel sorry for you so you could con them out of something to make a buck on.
The post above is correct. The next time "Pay if forward" comes up, we'll all remember what you did. We'll all be reluctant to be played for a sucker. "Owning up" to something that could potentially harm others in the future doesn't fix anything.
But I'm not going to berate you and call you names. I'm not going to tell you to buy a ricer. What I will tell you though, is that you just don't understand what this forum is about and what the people here consider to be a Corvette brother.
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 2,300
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From: Cambridge Ontario
St. Jude Donor '07
Don't know if you can call that a "mistake".
It sounds as if it was a deliberate attempt to get someone to feel sorry for you so you could con them out of something to make a buck on.
The post above is correct. The next time "Pay if forward" comes up, we'll all remember what you did. We'll all be reluctant to be played for a sucker. "Owning up" to something that could potentially harm others in the future doesn't fix anything.
But I'm not going to berate you and call you names. I'm not going to tell you to buy a ricer. What I will tell you though, is that you just don't understand what this forum is about and what the people here consider to be a Corvette brother.
It sounds as if it was a deliberate attempt to get someone to feel sorry for you so you could con them out of something to make a buck on.
The post above is correct. The next time "Pay if forward" comes up, we'll all remember what you did. We'll all be reluctant to be played for a sucker. "Owning up" to something that could potentially harm others in the future doesn't fix anything.
But I'm not going to berate you and call you names. I'm not going to tell you to buy a ricer. What I will tell you though, is that you just don't understand what this forum is about and what the people here consider to be a Corvette brother.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2006
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From: Fredericton NB
So of the three or four things I recieved I decied to sell one and that makes the spirit of all that was done tainted . Who are you to judge.I'v made over 100 posts in the last 3 months most to try and help other members , But I guess we are all to quick to justify are own righteous to passing judgement and sentence on our your fellow being. You know what . This is my last post here .
Lepus-temperamentalus
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 5,827
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From: Roswell Ga
So of the three or four things I recieved I decied to sell one and that makes the spirit of all that was done tainted . Who are you to judge.I'v made over 100 posts in the last 3 months most to try and help other members , But I guess we are all to quick to justify are own righteous to passing judgement and sentence on our your fellow being. You know what . This is my last post here .
See? That's exactly what I'm talking about. You have no idea how many posts or what any of us have done for others. You just assume that you've made a bigger sacrifice than anyone else has. Like I said, you just don't get it.
Yes, I feel a bit righteous. I've never done something like that nor would I. It would just never occur to me.
But as for this being your last post here...somehow, I don't think you'll be missed.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: BROOKLYN PARK MN
I am really upset about this situation. What you have really done is really put alot of distrust into online transactions. I see this as a scam that went bad and that your are trying to cover up as a mistake. Trust is such a huge thing the internet. I am proud to be a member here and hope that this is just a isolated thing. I have put alot of trust in this fourm and for the most part i have not been let down. This fourm is how i found my car, i flew from minnesota to mississippi to go get the car. To me that takes alot of trust of people. If this is the way that your are going do things here, no one will ever trust you again. i really can't talk for everyone here but i really think the best thing you can do is just to leave and never come back to the fourm. Cause I really don't think that this fourm has any need for people that would do something so dishonest as this. SHAME ON YOU, AND DON'T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE AZZ
Race Director
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 14,639
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From: Winston-Salem North Carolina
St. Jude Donor '08-'09
I've given parts away, helped with installs, and have had parts given to me, and have had help installing stuff, i've even done electrical work in members houses and not charged, just because of the vette thing. I'd be pretty bummed/pizzed if i found out a donated part was sold, or labor was charged on something that I showed someone how to do. By calling it a mistake shows that the person doesn't understand how serious this is. It surely isn't as bad as rape/murder, but it undermines the trust that has developed between members who do not know each other personally, just by forum membership. Everytime you pay it forward, now in the back of your mind, you might be thinking......hmmm what if....
Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2006
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From: Cambridge Ontario
St. Jude Donor '07
Its been given away to old stingray.
Now lets not let your paranoid delusion's cloud your judgement . Like I said I made a mistake. Nothing more. No justification ,no scam, no evil plan.
Now lets not let your paranoid delusion's cloud your judgement . Like I said I made a mistake. Nothing more. No justification ,no scam, no evil plan.