Sterling Carb Auction on RCC?
 

Anyone know where the thread to the carb I won and paid for Sept 1st 2009 is?
Strange how its not here on this forum anymore?

Also can seem to find Sterling metal works as a vendor any more....



Can an Admin person help?????

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I'm auctioning off a Sterling Nikki to benefit the Rotary Car Club. This carb retails for $420.00. All money received for this carburetor will be sent directly via PayPal to Kevin here at the Rotary Car Club.
I get to pay my dues here while showing off my product, someone gets a great carb, and the money goes toward representing a great club that puts membership ahead of revenue.
It's a "Win, win, WIN!".

The carby:
This auction is for a brand new "Sterling Nikki". So new in fact, that it hasn't even been built yet! (It's currently in a production batch.)
The carburetor retails for $420.00. It's a modified Nikki carb from an FB, and most all of the details can be found HERE.

Carb
Yes, you won, fire85gslse. For $285.00. Congratulations.
PM me with shipping details and allow me time to build it.
Kevin will PM you with details about where to send payment.

Proof of payment.



Paypal Web Accept Payment Sent (Unique Transaction ID #7F154775MX399983K)
Original Transaction
Date Type Status Details Amount
Sep 1, 2009 Payment To PC Remedies, LLC Completed ... -$285.00 USD

Business Name: PC Remedies, LLC (The recipient of this payment is Verified)
Email: info@pcrdirect.biz
Payment Sent to:donation@rotarycarclub.com

Item Amount: $285.00 USD

Item Title: Donation to Support Rotary Car Club (User: fire85gslse)
Date: Sep 1, 2009
Time: 17:32:21 CDT


Business Contact Information
Customer Service URL: http://pcrdirect.biz
Customer Service Email: info@pcrdirect.biz
Customer Service Phone: 866-410-2020
Funding Source: $285.00 USD - Credit Union Checking
Description: PC Remedies, LLC

Note: Won a built Sterling carb for $285.00 off Rotary Car Club.

Bummer chad! I saw the thread. I hope you get it.

Im sure I will get it or my money back. Sterling is good for it as well as Kevin (Rotary Car Club owner) but one or the other needs to happen and not finding the thread has me wondering what happened.

The thread has not been deleted.

His vendor section is now hidden due to inactivity.
Vendor sections are provided free of charge as long as the vendor makes at least one post every 30 days. That's only minimum 12 post per year for the ability to buy and sell parts for free.
I'll restore it back just for you to bump his thread for now.

I am sure he'll respond to you soon. If not let me know.

ok, well I could not find it under my name, his, or yours. Made me want to ask why? Also with in almost being 1-1-2010, 4 months later just kinda of curious
as to where the carb is.
Thanks for the info. Like I said, I knew you two are good for it and was not trying to make it out to be bad. Just once I could not find it I needed to get answers. The first carb I bought from him at full price was a 4-5 month wait due to some things going on where he was over busy. Really did not think it would take this long again to get another one.

Chad

That's not the only quality vendor who's forum has disappeared.......

I guess they have been to busy to post anything.
If you see a missing vendor let them know next time you talk to them that you would like to see them active again on RCC!

Thanks for your support.

You may have better luck getting a hold of him over on www.sterlingmetalworks.com/bymc

He certainly isn't going to rip you off, but it's a small business and isn't his only priority so things may have gotten away from him.

Nice. This train wreck was brought to my attention by a rotary community friend.
OK well, all this bullshit stops right now. This situation has been updated through communication between Chad & myself, not that it's really anybody else's business.

Anyone need to contact me about anything, EMAIL ME! Don't chase around the forums PMing me or trying to call me out. It's ridiculous.
Here:
dennis@sterlingmetalworks.com
denniswilliams@sterlingmetalworks.com
sterling@sterlingmetalworks.com
gorealfast@sterlingmetalworks.com
shitmail@sterlingmetalworks.com
sterlingrex@gmail.com
-Pick one!

Bump....

I moved the thread out of his vendor section to here http://www.rotarycarclub.com/rotary_...ead.php?t=8909

His vendor section has been hidden due to lack of post/inactivity of more than 30 days.

For others that don't know we give vendors a FREE spot to sell rotary parts on RCC as long as they post at least once every 30 days in their vendor section.

I also posted in the vendor only section the details of this and hopefully it will be resolved soon. 6 months is unacceptable for no product delivery or refund.

At any time just let me know and I'll refund it directly to you and deal with Dennis directly.

-Kevin Henderson

I have received a refund from Dennis for the carb, thanks.

At 7:37 AM, Sunday, March 28, I sent Chad $300 via PayPal. I'm sorry to have wasted his time by making a promise I couldn't keep. At the time, things were going a bit better for me than now, but they had been steadily declining for me for about 18 months. For the past year I've been working a full time job and a part time job, different ones, doing different things, but always exhausted at the end of the day. It was never my intention not to send Chad his carb, but I let the carb orders pile up and when it came time to build an order that was $650 or Chad's $285 order, well business sense simply had to outweigh my own personal sense of right vs "ain't right". This is why I will eventually send Chad a Sterling Nikki (free). He deserves it, but I just can NOT say when that will be. It won't be until after I have taken care of all of my outstanding orders. Believe me, this whole thing is nothing I'm proud of, and I have felt guilty every step of the way.

However...
There are other circumstances about this situation that readers do not know. These circumstances do not justify my neglect to fill Chads order, but they do go far in explaining just how disgusted I am with this forum and how Kevin has chosen to handle this.

First off, I specifically state on my website that I do not conduct business via forum PMs. I don't always allow the PMs to auto-email me. I choose to keep a personal record of the ongoing business dialog in email form.
Despite that fact, Chad had tried several times to contact me via PM on this forum when he was getting antsy about his carb. When I did not respond, instead of attempting to email me, he made his grievance public on this forum. The thread was then brought to my attention by someone and I had to come here and defend myself. Kevin was apparently PMed by Chad for help, as well.
In my efforts to defend myself against the allegation that I was avoiding communication with Chad, I listed all the emails he could contact me by. There's a link in my signature that takes you to my website. At the bottom of every single page of my website is an email address specifically for the carburetor business. I also have my own forum.
...Chad also has my phone number.

Chad simply wanted his carburetor, and that's fair enough. But there was no reason for "calling me out" on a public forum. I'm a fair guy. In fact, I'm MORE than fucking fair. I didn't need to be strong-armed by the administration of this forum to tend to my personal business.

Furthermore;
When I first came here, when the RCC forum first started, I was very supportive. I donated a carburetor, happily. Proudly. It was not until I spoke with Kevin over the phone regarding this latest trip to Irvine that I found that I had been the largest donor to date. And Kevin didn't know it until I reminded him how much the first carb had gone for. Then I explained how I never got a tee-shirt for my efforts and how I was just a little upset by that.

This same thing happened this year. I didn't even know my logo was the biggest one on the shirt. I never even saw it. That's right, I was never sent a tee-shirt. It's just a tee-shirt, but it's also a piece of pride for me. I'm just one guy in his home garage working on carburetors, and I'm known in several countries among the some of the rotary community.
I never did mention to Kevin that the logo banner he created for me for display on this site has the word "carburetor" spelled incorrectly, and I only hope that it is spelled correctly on the shirt.
There's also the fact that I have never made a single sale from this forum. I repeat, after having donated over $900 in retail product, I have never made a sale from anyone who came from this forum.
Now the fact is, I have made dozens of sales by answering questions on the rx7club forum, even though I am not a vendor there, will not conduct business via PM there, nor do I ask anyone to contact me for business. So when I get an email telling me that if I don't post a new thread soon in my vendor section here on the RCC, it will relegated to inactive status, and then I come here and look to see that there have been absolutely ZERO new posts in my section, I find it not only hard to justify the time, but also kind of a pompous approach to attempt at generating forum traffic.
I don't take well to being pushed into anything, like most folks I figure, whether it's posting on a forum that "gives me a free vendor section" that I feel I've paid plenty for already, or being publicly chastised regarding my personal business.

Like I say, folks, I'm very sorry Chad had to endure all this. I let my hardships spill over into my business and thus effect my customers. But I also feel that this was handled poorly by the administration of a floundering forum for which free vendor sections that are offered up for only the price of a very small amount of monthly attention are deemed not worth that small effort by the majority of the vendors listed here.
This begs the question, Who needs who more in this symbiotic relationship; the vendors needing the forum, or the forum needing the vendors, and as such, who should be asking for the other's help?

Sorry Kevin, but I won't be treated with a lack of respect by anyone here, regardless of how poorly I've handled a business deal with a customer. And Chad is exactly that; my customer. He's bought a carb from me before.
You can do with this what you want, it's your sandbox, after all. But if you don't put threads back the way they were, in their proper areas, and you don't make me a moderator in the carburetor section again like I was, and you don't put my vendor section back into "active status" (-I think this much activity is certainly qualification), then I'm simply going to leave and not return. If you decide to set everything back the way it was, I will make more of an attempt to participate here.
Keep in mind, it was you who wanted to call me out and publicize this whole thing using your forum, even after our email dialog.

This is what forums are for, communication. If you don't want to participate then don't post. A simple PM E-mail or phone call letting me know you did not receive a shirt and it would have been addressed a long time ago. 6 months with out any contact is way to long.

6 months+ to issue a refund to a forum member for a product promised but not delivered is unacceptable. As far as I knew I held up to everything that we agreed to. You have your advertisement on 300 shirts that were given out and your banner had been displayed for over 6 months going on 12. You told me for the 1st time last Thursday that Chad would get his carb when you got your T-shirt.... This was the 1st time I have heard that you did not receive it. I then Promptly replied send me what size you would like and I would ship it out the next day.. I received no reply...



I am sorry you have had so much trouble... I don't make a dime off this forum and currently it has me over $1000 in the hole. I respond to all pm's e-mails and phone calls promptly. If you have a problem don't wait 6 months and blame me for you not shipping out product because you did not receive a shirt.. Also if you see something misspelled that needs to be fixed please tell me. I am not a spelling expert. I can help you if you communicate.

Thank you for finally issuing a refund to Chad.

Since you do not like to use the forum to communicate I am closing this thread. If you need anything please E-mail or call me anytime.

Sincerely,

Kevin Henderson