I already expressed my bad feelings over this once.. but I'm annoyed enough that I feel I have to bring more attention to it.
This place is a big source of info for many of us.. myself especially included.. and not the kind of info you can always get from a Haynes manual. Yet, out of 287 other "active users", only 19 tickets have been bought by you people for the fund raising drive for the board, viewable here (http://"http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=5167").
As I stated in the draw thread, I am just barely able to spare the money I did for this draw.. but I spared it. I've only been drawing a paycheck for the last month or so, and always less than $300 a week. Some of them under $200 a week. Been officially unemployed since 1999. (made some money on my own, but not enough or consistently to be worth claiming as some sort of big success) If I can do it, so can you. Even for one ticket at $10. Lay off the pizza for a day and eat a sandwich or something.
Now mind you, Tom is up for 3 of those 19 tickets.. and Tom is one of the people here who probably gives 99.9% and takes .1% from the board.. so Tom gives far more than enough to excuse himself even if he didn't pony up.. but he did. So that leaves 16 tickets between 286 of you, on our little running count here. This isn't addressed to the Toms and the Chucks of this board. (for example) This is addressed to the rest of you. Time to pony up, folks. This isn't lasting for another full week. You have no real excuse, unless you're unemployed and one foot out of the poor house.. and even if you are, this place has probably given you enough to justify at least socking away 10 bucks for it to remain for another year. If I can do it, you can as well.
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=5167
holy i thank you...i just worked some overtime last week and im like you know there was somthing i wanted like 25 bucks for and now i cant remember. and now i do thank ill buy 3 tomarrow
Thanks for the promotional effort, Bird351 - it is appreciated. I do wish to remind people that partiting in the draw is voluntary, though, so don't feel pressured. If you don't buy a ticket don't worry - I'll just send Bird351 to your house to take your first born :D
I'll get some when the pay check is in. I just bought my new studkits for my heads so it will be next week.
The deadline for entries is Monday at Midnight
I have no need for any of the raffled items, but I went ahead and bought a ticket anyway. It supports the site...so that's what is important. I know it costs money to keep these things going....
If I didn't cut that o-ring... if the deadline was past next thurs I would definately buy one. :(
My visa is in the car............ give me a moment. ;)
I want to buy some, but I'm terribly broke right now. I get paid Monday -- maybe I can buy some then.
DW
What's your street address? I'll send my nephew over to get it for you ;)
Calgary International Airport - Calgary Airport Authority
2000 Airport Road Northeast, Calgary, AB T2E6W5
Mine is the one on the left.:giggle:
This gets one bump a night until the drawing is over.
lol
ok i bought one. i squeezed it in there somehow.
Got my quarterly bonus yesterday, so all's good. :D
While I won't exactly take credit for the increase, it is at least good to see that tickets have just about doubled since I posted this. I just hope that we're close to whatever this place costs to renew for another year.. but I have a feeling we're not.
now this me off
cant i just pay the old fashion way?
i dont mind donating,,never have minded.
what you dont realize is that Since my IP is pinged as in freaking iraq,, my cc gets denied because the ingenious IT guru decided that if your IP doesnt match the country your credit card is from, you must be a thief or sumthin.
My buddy here got the same results while ordering an external hd. he ordered his hard drive,, filled out the form for shipping to indiana.,, dell electroicaly informs him that "we do not ship to iraq". After a long back and forth emailing, it was decided that dell was having difficluty preventing the automated system from making this mistake and creating the ship to info as iraq instead of what the customer asked for.
nodding my head in disbelief,, and why is my degree in computer science ill never know.
so,, if someone would be so kind as to take my info and order me a couple tickets ,id appreciate it,,,,,,,,revisedelf@brier.net
Nightly bump time.. I seriously doubt we're even over $400 in total funds raised here, people. (with several of us buying 3 for $25, that means that 41 tickets does not equal $410) I doubt we've reached whatever it costs to A) license vBulletin for a year, and B) host this board and all its posts and images for a year. Even if we had reached it, more money means more time paid for.. a buffer for this time next year.
I'm down to $117 balance on my credit card and about $70 in the bank, and I'm facing a lean paycheck this coming week.. (and the need to put about another $40 in the tank of the Mark, but I have a little bit of cash to cover it.. plus I need to pick up a timing light, with it knocking on 89 octane now when warm) but I'm still considering either donating again myself or donating on behalf of jcassity so he can get in under the wire and pay me later. I'd rather someone else step up and offer it.. but if not, I may just do that before Monday night. I don't expect other people to be considering multiple donations, but it would at least be nice to see more people buying even their first ticket if they are low on money.. more if they're not.
I just bought a ticket I would buy more but am unemployed right now
and cash is super tight.
This quasi-guilt-trip is not targetted at people who have already bought tickets. Whatever your situation, if you already bought at least one ticket, you stepped up and delivered. It's also not targetted at people who have zero means. If you have no steady income and you still managed to find a way to buy at least one ticket, so much the better. I honestly would rather see someone win over myself who had zero steady income and still managed to find a way to step up and buy at least one ticket. (but if I win.. meh.. I win. I'm honestly ambivalent to the winning/prize/whatever part. It was more important to me to demonstrably give back to a site I've received so much from in the last year) As I've stated before, it's also not targetted at the people who give back like 99 times what they get from the site. They've given and given and given for the past year.. people like Tom and Chuck.. and in their cases, even they stepped up and bought at least one ticket. If people like those two can contribute financially, why the hell can't the rest of us? Tom, Chuck, Eric, Carmen, and a few others.. (and it's not meant as a snub if I forget to mention your name) we shouldn't expect them to be paying.. we should be buying them drinks, at the very least. Awhile back, Tom just out of the blue up and offered to send me (and did send) a couple spare 14# injectors to get my '88 T-bird on the road. I haven't yet, but it's mostly a case of also needing a fuel pump. (which I'll pick up soon) Anyway, that's the f'n MAN right there.. :bowdown: and I could buy ten times the tickets this week and still not equal that kind of generosity and contribution to the other members of the board.
It's targetted at people who have enough money to burn on this unnecessary go-fast part or that unnecessary go-fast part, who probably got advice on that unnecessary go-fast part from this place and saved them from buying the wrong unnecessary go-fast part, for one example.
Or people who saved themselves hundreds or thousands of dollars by getting good info here on how to do something themselves vs. taking it to a shop or whatever, and can afford to share some of those savings with the rest of us in the form of keeping the board going another 12 months, for another example.
Even if the advice here saved you an hour or two turning a wrench over doing it with no prior research on whatever project.. what was that hour or two worth to you? What will the next hour or two saved be worth on top of that? What if, for example, getting advice here saves you time AND unnecessary repeat trips to the parts store? Less wasted gas, less frustration, etc. You've then saved time AND money.. why not take this chance to give a bit back?
I'm sorry if I'm preaching a bit too much in this thread.. but this is one of the few forums over the past 12-13 years or so that I really like, and that has also been very useful to me. I think it's important to make an effort to keep it going, and this is one time I think that many of you should think the same thing. This isn't politics.. this isn't religion.. this isn't red state vs. blue state or American vs. Canadian or whatever.. this is an actual tangible contribution to a site that might just be helping to keep your beloved Bird or Cat on the road that much longer. It may sound overly dramatic.. but with all the threads I've been seeing lately about "should I keep my [bird/cat/etc.]", this place might be doing exactly what I just said.
Im sorry. I make at most $100 a week. Im in highschool. I have 125 per month going to my escape for payments and Im still trying to fix the Cougar. I owe 115 bucks on it. I wish I could. Plus I still gotta send some money orders to a few people on this sight.
Bird351, I agree with what you said, and I too find this forum to be a great place to get info about the cars or to just kick back in the Lounge. I don't post too much in any of the sections, but I am here most days of the week, and I think that the majority of the regulars have already bought a ticket.
So, to everyone who's still wondering whether they should partite or not, I'll add this to what Bird351 said:
If you read the forums, and you have a username, that means you either found something interesting enough to make you feel that you should reply to it, or that you asked for help. In both cases you partited to the discussion in one way or another, and you are therefore part of the community. Being part of a community means giving as well as getting, and well, wouldn't you know it, it's GIVING time now. So come on and pony up those ten measly dollars so that we can keep being a community and you can keep getting your thundercat fix.
Just so you don't have any more excuses, I'll make it easy for you:
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showpost.php?p=48985&postcount=1
Click above to donate !
Once again I must point out that although I appreciate the efforts, partiting this draw is 100% voluntary and nobody should feel guilty if they can't or don't buy a ticket. This site is and will remain free for all members. When I need money to keep it going I'll hold a draw like this one, but nobody will ever be required to pay.
Just thought I'd add this in case anyone is feeling bad...
thats great and all but i know for a fact that i have gotten alot more then 25 bucks of info from this site.
Didn't even know this thing was going on. Bought 3
Never said it wasn't 100% voluntary. Just my opinion that, if people CAN afford to give back, they should strongly consider doing so before Monday night.. if they find this place to be of use to them.
No one who cannot afford to give back should feel bad about that. We all go through bad patches. Hell, I was officially unemployed for the last 5 years. (although I made a little bit here and there, selling stuff on eBay) I'm intimately familiar with having not much to spare. If you did this again in six months, (which I'm not recommending, I'm just saying) some of the people who couldn't pay now would probably be able to, and some of the people who were able to pay this time probably couldn't.
If you just can't do it, you just can't do it. I'm trying to goad the people who can do it (and are probably willing to do it) into doing it, if they haven't done it already. But if they end up not doing it, well, that's their concern. I tried.
If I had any type of credit card or checking account, believe me, I'd buy more than 3 tickets just to help keep this site going, you guys and girls on here are about the best bunch of people I've ever come across on the net. Not to mention all the knowledge I've gained from here. If this goes on again next year, you bet your ass I'm gonna help out as much as I can.
Tonight's bump.
F#$%/ng paypal, its avaible to mexico, but guess what ? paypal dont support any of the banks here.....what the f#$% they were thinking ? how i am supposed to use it if i cant deposit any fund to any bank account ?
For Other hand, i´m of the most people that uses the board Information to know how to fix the cougar, even the other three cars in my familiy, and trust me, i´m feeling very bad because i cant give a donation to this board, even getting little money for at least two tickets. I got good answers to my questions in this forum, even if they are simple and my english is pretty bad, nobody says anything about it, just they help me the best they can, with excellent results...
Example (explorerforum)
I: How i can repair my stock headunit from my 96? sounds pretty bad the cd..
Someone: Your Radio is toast, or burned. What do you expect from a 9 years old radio ?
End of the thread
(Foxtbirdcougarforums)
I:I have a explorer.How i can repair my stock headunit from my 96? sounds pretty bad the cd...
Friend 1: Check all the connections. May be a bad ground
Friend 2: Check the harness, may be loosen or could be a cold solder...
Friend 3: I had a radio with that problem. Try this...
Friend 4: I have a diagram . Check it out...
And suggestions until the problem is solved....
I appreciate all the those things really.....and dont getting a way to retribute is very bad...
I would gladly contribute, but I owe my MC $3500, and the bank $1200. And I still have to keep the baby fed and clean diapers on his ass. Sorry, bad timming for me.
To be honest (not triing to be rude) but I have never got a really good answer for any of my questions here. (which have been very few) My dad is a Class A Mechanic, so any questions I have generally go to him first. Basicly all the info you need for these cars is at Coolcats, just have to look. The reason I am here, is to try and help when I can, and to maybe pick up on some customizing ideas. Which there are many excellent ones here.
Again, If I had the money.... I would gladly give it. Sorry.
I was going to buy a ticket but my wife totaled her Mustang this past weekend and I just put down $1,200 (on a credit card) to have my car fixed and it still is not running right so it's in the shop again.
So someone buy an extra ticket because I'm a slacker and can't get one.
Ok theres my three tickets. Hope that helps!:D
Ouch! :( Hope she's ok.
Time to get another Cougar? ;)