Here's my story, AGAIN Options

[dustin15brown]

ok I have received mutplie pms and or IM's saying how I am ruining 6gc for my antics that Manny posted about in Lissa's thread. The thing is, I had a repsonse thread and Jeff deleted it for unknown reasons. So here is my justification again.

QUOTE(dustin15brown @ Jan 11, 2006 - 7:08 PM)
QUOTE(defgeph @ Jan 11, 2006 - 10:40 PM)
Jeff:Dustin is one hell of a guy. Willing to do whatever he can to help.
Enjoy those fogs
ME: including bash your threads if he thinks you screwed someone
Manny: at least dustin(batman722) never tried to rip members off from this site for $2ea. for the keychains, 30$ ea for the failed GB on the skirts,
and who knows how much on doggys duckbill spoiler.




The truth about things is here if u wanna read them, and if not, I dont mind either
Keychain:
As to Manny's comment is Lissa's thread I tried ripping people off $2 per keychain in the group buy. This was NOT the case and if it is said other wise, I regret to inform you that you are wrong. Randy contacted me about the group buy asking questions. He mentioned he was VERY busy and didn't have time to head it up. I said it was NOT a problem because I need more experience in successfully running a group buy. At one point a profit for me was mentioned, but it wasn't expected. I knew I was getting a free keychain out of it and that was enough for me.

Side Skirts: Manny posted that I was making $30 off of each side skirts that were in the gb that I attempted to run. This is true. I was looking at $200 in additional expenses to ship the side skirts to Lithuanina and then back to me and it wasn't fair that I lost that money. So I set the gb at 6 people and added $30 per set. That is still me losing $20 in something totally unrelated to me which is fine. I had very good intentions with that gb and getting it started. They are such a rare item I wanted others to have a chance to get them. I specifically stated to Randy while we were "bidding" on the skirts that it would be around $300 pending some expenses. I stand by my decision to add on $30 to each set to COVER costs, and not a profit.

Ducktail:
I will make NOTHING off of it, simply ask Romas. He gave me the exact price and that is what I posted. If there were mosre than 10 people I would receive a discount for EVERYONE, and they would have gotten it.

Conclusion:
Regardless of what everyone thinks my intentions were not bad. and if they were, this is America and everyone has the right to be profitable. Please stop with the bashing of my name. It is pointless. If you're going to bring my name into trying to make a profit, turn to everyone who has ever ran a gb on here minus the JDM side skirts that is going on and see who is making a profit. Exactly, every person is. Post your feelings if you like. I'm actually eager to see if this mattered to anyone.

This post has been edited by dustin15brown: Jan 16, 2006 - 4:24 PM

[Batman722]

this whole thing is stupid. Just let it go.

but since it is here I will give my opinion....

dustin15brown bought the lotus skirts knowing someone else really wanted them (not me). dustin15brown's reasoning (what he told me) was to either put them onto his new celica he would be getting in the summer and/or to send them to Romas to be reproduced. I told him about how much the skirts would cost to get shipped to Lithuania (I have shipped a few parts to Romas before) and I told him it would cost big $$. Romas is a busy guy, he has many other parts he is producing and these would take some time. He also said if there was no interest from a GB then he would sell them for the cost he got them.

So knowing he paid $225 for the skirts and the cost to send to Romas I told him that there was no way these were gonna be available to members at a reasonable price (under $300). Especially since the "dealer option" skirts are only $327.

So after all of this we find out he is making at least $30 on each set of skirts, that is at least $30 less that anyone who was interested in the GB could of paid for each set of skirts. At least $30 out of a members pocket to another...that IMO isn't right. "Community" and "members helping members" is not what that is all about in my book.

So, if you bought a keychain you paid $2 more than you should have. And if you were going to buy a set of lotus skirts, you would of paid at least $30 more than you should have. Just wrong...

This isn't the donate your hard earned $$ to someone overcharging you site. Rip people off on ebay, not here.