Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 15:38:23 -0500
Reply-To: Todd Olson <todd.olson@CHARTER.NET>
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From: Todd Olson <todd.olson@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: shame on you Go Westy!!!
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There is a lot of flames flying around about GoWesty on the Vanagon list
over the Zoltan Syncro Westy deal and I for one would like to stick up for
GoWesty. I have done business for years with GoWesty and firmly believe you
get what you pay for. They are great people, honorable and great to do
business with. I feel that their offerings are a great value for what I get.
I have also done business with Zoltan and have had the same experience. In
my book they are both great people and an asset to the Vanagon community.
I don’t post much and lurk in the background but this one has got me upset.
This is a free market. The seller and the buyer agreed on what they both
felt was a fair price for the Syncro. Buyers remorse is no reason to flame
someone. GoWesty shouldn't be flamed for selling a Syncro Westy for $72,000.
God Bless them for it. And conversely GoWesty maybe should have not posted
the article about Zoltan. Here again the perception of value for the
customer makes it a fair deal for both the buyer and customer.
And to Chris from Jordan VW. I have done business with you in the past and I
also think you are a good person to do business with and have no complaints.
But to your comment about supporting companies that support the list.
Although I can not say if GoWesty has supported the list I can say they have
been a very generous supporter of Buses By the Beach. They have been the
Gold Level Sponsor for our charity event and have given thousands of dollars
over the last 7 years. This is money that went to the Phoenix Society for
Burn Survivors to sponsor kids to go to burn camp and for mentoring programs
for adult burn survivors.
There is a reason why we are all blessed on this earth with success. And it
is not to buy bigger houses and new cars every year. I feel that it is so we
can have an opportunity to do good work with money and help others. And in
my mind GoWesty has been successful and has been a good steward of the money
by giving back to the community. I hope their buyers feel $200,000 is a fair
price and a good value for one of their Westies. That way they would be able
to support more families that work for them and do more good work through
the successes. Profit is not a dirty word, but greed is. Greed is when
someone is out to get as much money as they can for the sole purpose hording
it all to themselves and not helping others.
None of us on this earth is perfect. We all make poor judgments at times. It
may have not been the best thing for GoWesty to write about Zoltan on their
website. I believe if you throw a little dirt, you loose a little ground.
However this article on their website will not change my buying habits with
them nor does it decrease the perceived value of the products I buy from
them.
Sorry for the lengthy email. But I thought it was important that someone
stick up for GoWesty on this one.
Todd Olson
"Dropping Bombs for peace is a little like drinking for sobriety."
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:48:26 EST
From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject: shame on you Go Westy!!! Re: A 2009 Heads Up
In a message dated 1/1/09 10:05:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
mtbiker62@COMCAST.NET writes:
> Just happened to be reading through Go Westy's sale items when I came
> across the comments by one Syncro owner in dealing with someone I've seen
on our
> van lists, and thought a heads up was appropriate. If this has already
been
> posted then my apologies.
>
> http://www.gowesty.com/sale_details.php?id=1127
>
> Bob
> '87 Syncro Westy
>
this is a LOW BLOW from go westy.. i have dealt w/ zoltan before and he
is a good stand up guy and long time member of this list, and i have learned
a
bunch from him as many as you have.
i know nothing of this van or this transaction but i can say that im
suprised Go westy would trash an individiual like this on their website.
is go westy GOD? with their Seventy thousand dollar westfalias???? i
mean,
who the hell would pay 70 grand for a freakin 15+ year old vanagon
camper????? they are insane..
why does the guy buy the van, and immediately drive it to go westy, what
does
he think - of course they will badmouth the van and they will hose him for
another 10 grand of "repairs" because he didnt buy the van from him..
what
did you expect from go westy??
they can nit pick anything because stupid people will buy into it and open
their wallets to them because they think go westy is GOD.
whos the dishonest person in this story???
Go westy.. for bilking the guy out of another 10 grand to "fix" his van he
bought from a private sale, and the guy for being a sucker and letting GO
westy
tell him the van he bought was a piece of crap and letting go westy CON him
into buying one of their 70 grand westys..
this is classic.
thumbs down for go westy.
once again..i know nothing of this vehicle, nor the sale, nor the guy who
bought it, but he wasnt the first person to get BILKED by go westy.
go westy wont ever get any more business from me.
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 11:54:39 EST
From: JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject: Re: shame on you Go Westy!!! Re: A 2009 Heads Up
In a message dated 1/1/09 11:48:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, JordanVw
writes:
> go westy wont ever get any more business from me.
>
>
>
ill stick with vendors who actually support the vanagon (gerry) list, like
Vanagain, and Busdepot, and AAA transaxle, etc.
i hope many of you think about this and do the same.
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