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Date:         Fri, 10 Mar 2000 07:33:46 -0800
Reply-To:     Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
Subject:      Re: ATTENTION ALL//STICKER PROCEDES-----> INTO FUND RAISER FOR
              GERRY             UPGRADE?
Comments: To: Ron Bloomquist <roadcow@MCN.ORG>
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Ron, You've got it backwards: The REALLY good things in life are indeed FREE! (and can't be bought with any amount of money... in fact money only gets cheap imitations of the really good things in life) Bill -----Original Message----- From: Ron Bloomquist <roadcow@MCN.ORG> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 7:20 AM Subject: Re: ATTENTION ALL//STICKER PROCEDES-----> INTO FUND RAISER FOR GERRY UPGRADE?

>Hi Volks, > >*MtnGal wrote: >ATTENTION ALL//STICKER PROCEDES-----> INTO FUND RAISER FOR GERRY UPGRADE? >..... May I open the forum to think about a wonderful way to turn these >stickers into a sort of fund raiser for GERRY's Upgrade fund? > >>snip< > >I mean.... >snap< > >Something clicked in my head and I spent most of the night tossing and >turning just thinking about the above sentence and I think I have figured >out the problem and... da da.. the solution!! > >The problem. > >The vanagon list is free. FREE? Well, not really free; I had to buy a >computer and a modem and sign up and pay my local server and pay my phone >bill....but anyway, that's my "free" end of it. > >And, I understand that "Gerry" operates at ReliTech in Washington, DC., a >company that specializes in Windows NT, Novell Netware and Macintosh >training, consulting, and systems integration ( could it be that Gerry is >there in some closet for free?... I mean as maybe a write-off or possibly >just out of the good PR of that company? And, I understand that the list >moderator is Tom Carrington. Is he also doing this for.... free? > >If so... WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? People! We are not living in a >socialist state any more. We are living in the most powerful market driven >economy country in the world and here we are fooling around with a FREE >vanagon list. People. This has got to stop! We have Volks offering up >their thoughts and opinions for free? There have been Volks designing >stickers and other Volks hosting them on their own servers for free!! There >have been people offering opinions concerning sticker design improvements >and type face changes for...free? No NO NO! It is a well known fact that >if something is free, well, it probably ain't worth much. > >I have a....Solution.!! > >Start charging and I'm not just talking fifty bucks or more a sticker. > >It seems to me that all we will have to do is start collecting those .02 >cents that show up many times a day. If they were collected (call it seed >money) we would then be able to hire a finance officer for Gerry. The >finance officer would then monitor the e-mail conversations on the list; >watching for any formerly free vanagon information. If someone e-mails in a >question about an alternator problem and someone else e-mails in a >suggestion for a possible fix... that should be worth a couple of bucks to >the person with the problem. If the suggestion actually works.... Hey ten >bucks. The finance officer would collect the fee from the person with the >problem via credit card. (I forgot to mention. You will hence forth have >to submit a credit card number to be a member of this list.) If you don't >want to go along with this... you are immediately tossed back into >cyberspace. > >Okay, say you have a problem that is something more major. Endless burping >problem? If solved, that alone has got to be worth twenty bucks; just for >the peace of mind. Leaking heads, water in the oil hey! We are starting to >talk serious cash now! In no time we could buy a whole new Gerry and even >rent a new building to house it. Maybe even an armed guard. > >Anyway. What I am trying to get to is this: > >I want the vanagon sticker to be worth something; to mean something when >other people see it. Say like someone is in a vanagon and they are broke >down beside the road. Here we come along and pull off to the side of the >road just ahead of them. They will look at us HOPEFULLY, wiping grease off >their hands, then spot our shiny vanagon sticker in our rear window and..... >RUN! > >Opps, coffee is done. >Happy Friday, >Ron Bloomquist >


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