Let's keep this on top!

Okay Arch,

I'm in. Check is written & ready for the mailbox tomarrow morning.

Thanks for creating a way for us to help Cliff

Dave

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Contributors so far....

Real Name / Screen Name / Amount

David Gunsul / David Gunsul / 20.00
Steve Hamilton / Raydar / 10.00
Robert Jennings / WestTexas / 5.00
Hugh Lemma / Hugh / 100.00
Vic Tapscott / MaxDaemon / 24.00
Bob Rutz / Rgeeinc / 20.00

Total........ 169.00

Keep those Dimes and Nickels on the way.

Archie

Bump. Come on we can do better than this!
How many people smoke?Just give as much as you spend on smokes a week.

Bump

Hmmmmmm, found this back on page 3.

WE got one donation today...... add to the list

Ross Tolstedt / Ross T / 10.00

Archie

Where else can I find an excellent suggestion like using oven cleaner to degrease my cradle. Thanks, Archie. The $1.29 oven cleaner worked better than the $4.00 Castroil degreaser. I'm going to send another $5.00. Seems like everytime somebody gets excellent expert advice for free they should put something back in the pot. Besides, I don't want to be the miser on the donor list.

Robert

Bump.

Sending check next Friday.

John

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1986 GT 355 Chevy 420hp

OK, WE need a little input from our current & future Supporters Group members.

Within the next few days, I'm sure we will have the funds to buy 4 Banners. I've exchanged EMails with Cliff & he suggests we buy one banner and have it run for 4 months (we can continue that longer as more donations come in) rather than buy 4 30 day banners. Does this sound ok?

Also he suggests the banner link to a web page with all member names that made a donation, perhaps with a picture of themselves and/or their Fiero, together with a little resumé. As I said earlier I need to keep this simple and because I don't know the 1st. thing about doing a web page, I had figured on just linking back to this thread. I like the web page idea but I don't have time to learn how to do that. So the Question is, What do you guys (& gals) suggest?

Please respond ASAP, as I would like to get this banner up quickly.

Archie

I'll make the web page and put it up on my server.

I also want to thank everybody for their support. I do have mixed feelings about accepting donations, but hey, if that's what people want, that's what people want.

I'm for the one ongoing banner. I think that would be easyest for you Archie and, from Cliffs comments, easyest for Cliff too.

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Dave Gunsul
Activities Director
Northern IL. Fiero Enthusiasts
86 GT modified
85 SE daily driver

quote Originally posted by Dave Gunsul: I'm for the one ongoing banner. I think that would be easyest for you Archie and, from Cliffs comments, easyest for Cliff too.

I agree with Dave.

DITTO!

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#1112
Question my ability,question my intelligence,never question my integrity!

Same here.

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Mid Atlantic Fiero Owners Association
New England Fiero Association
Keystone State Chapter, P.O.C.I.
P.O.C.I.

Bumpity,bump,bump!

2 more donations today.

Frank Martin / Dragon / 25.00
David J. Lambert III / CoolBlue87GT / 10.00

Total so far is $ 224.00

Archie

Okay! The PFF Supporters Group just bought its first banner!

Right now, the banner points to this thread, but I will be creating a special PSG page soon. Every contributor will get some room to show a few pics and tell a few things about his/her Fiero and/or him/herself!

Give me a few days to create this page. As you may know, I'm going on vacation next monday and I need to do a lot of stuff before my vacation.

Anyway, thanks to all that contributed!

Saw the banner, cool. Cliff you amaze me.

Note to self, self support pff, too much valuable stuff here.

quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: Anyway, thanks to all that contributed!

Please don't mis-understand the above line to mean that the fund raising campaign is over.

This will be an on-going program, just because the 1st. banner has been bought, doesn't mean that PFF no longer needs your support.

Once again this is the chance to help offset Cliff's costs in making this Forum available to you.

Over the years, a lot of people have asked Cliff to accept donations or dues etc. Well, there is now a place to do just that on a voluntary basis.

This is your chance to do just what you've been asking to do for years.

Do it today, do it tomorrow, do it next month, it all helps the cause.

Archie

bump

3 more donations ......

Denny Lambert / Denny / 15.00

Larry Wheeler / Old Lar / 20.00

Tina Grohmann / Tina / 50.00

Total so far 309.00

Archie

TTT

Hey Archie,
Are you set up to take donations via Paypal?? Let me know. If not, Chester and I will send a donation in with the $$ for the parts he is getting from you. Thanks!

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Elvira
President, New England Fiero Association (NEFA)
Blue 87GT 5sp (my Baby!)
Black 86GT 5sp (Chester's)
86SC t-top 58k miles (For Sale)
87 4-seater (2+2)
88 T-top Formula!
85 GT autocrosser!

quote Originally posted by Archie: Please don't mis-understand the above line to mean that the fund raising campaign is over. Do it today, do it tomorrow, do it next month, it all helps the cause. Archie

Already place into my monthly ledger as a regular bill to pay.

It's the only "bill" I'm happy to pay.

quote Originally posted by Elvira: Hey Archie, Are you set up to take donations via Paypal?? Let me know. If not, Chester and I will send a donation in with the $$ for the parts he is getting from you. Thanks!

I too would like to donate via paypal. Let me know

Back up there.

I was hoping for Paypal also. Did you get an account Arch?

Loyde

quote Originally posted by Archie: Like I said, I'm going to keep this simple. I won't be mailing out Reciepts, the weekly publication of the financial statement of the fund will be your rec't. At the present time, I don't take PayPal & as I said before "I'm not going to setup a seperate bank account just for this. Besides I already take Credit Cards as part of the business, so PayPal would be redundant. I hope this helps. Archie

Keep it simple for me, write a check, buy a stamp.

Archie

Great idea.
I can send $10!
~soph

Make this on going, even if no one sends in a while. I literally dont have a dollar to spend right now (18, looking for a job, just out of school, and have to replace my balljoint) but as soon as I can I will send money out. I have allready saved a lot of money due to this site so I have no problem giving back.

I think we should stay to 1 or even ZERO banners....

Less banners WE buy, the more banners Cliff can get from the advertisers..... Can we OVER pay cliff for a monthly banner?

Want to see the maximum cluck for cliffs buck here....

quote Originally posted by grinthock: I think we should stay to 1 or even ZERO banners.... ....

Yes, that's what we are doing..... one banner for the group (with a web site that Cliff's gonna setup when he gets back from vacation).

That leaves maximum exposure for the advertisers.

This WILL be a continuing thread.... right now we have 4 months paid in advance.... I'd like to see us have 40 months paid in advance someday.

The whole idea of this is to support Cliff's expenses and those expenses will continue for years to come.

Archie

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quote Originally posted by Cliff Pennock: I'll make the web page and put it up on my server.

Um .. is it just me, or is this kinda self-defeating? Cliff is having a bandwidth crunch, so to alleviate that he's going to make ANOTHER page with pictures and stuff on it to support the people who are sending in money to help with Cliff's bandwidth problems. Plus, like the guy's not busy enough already, he's going to make the page and keep it updated! Cliff - yer a great guy, but can we find someone else to do this and take a load off YOUR server and YOUR time? I'm willing to host the page/s if someone else will build 'em..although my server can be kinda slow at peak times. I don't think we'll be hit TOO hard though, will we? Maybe 30-60 total people donating? Maybe someone else has a heavier amount of available bandwidth on THEIR server?

Or maybe I'm all wet and out of line here. I just hate to see Cliff making his work load and server load bigger. Seems like he does all the work anyhow...

Vic

At the very least, this message will bump this topic back to the head again!

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'86 GT on the road for the summer!
'85 SC running smooooth.
'86 Gold SE V8 - how do YOU spell power!
'85 Silver SE V6 - automatic for the kid!

That's FOUR - I need a FIFTH! <of whiskey - sigh>

Archie
It's time for me to help. Check sent yesterday.
bump this to page one

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Just wrote my check. It'll be in the mail in the morning... wait... it is morning... It'll be in the mail later this morning

[This message has been edited by Haagster (edited 07-21-2002).]

quote Originally posted by MaxDaemon: Um .. is it just me, or is this kinda self-defeating? Cliff is having a bandwidth crunch, so to alleviate that he's going to make ANOTHER page with pictures and stuff on it to support the people who are sending in money to help with Cliff's bandwidth problems. Plus, like the guy's not busy enough already, he's going to make the page and keep it updated! Cliff - yer a great guy, but can we find someone else to do this and take a load off YOUR server and YOUR time? I'm willing to host the page/s if someone else will build 'em..although my server can be kinda slow at peak times. I don't think we'll be hit TOO hard though, will we? Maybe 30-60 total people donating? Maybe someone else has a heavier amount of available bandwidth on THEIR server? Or maybe I'm all wet and out of line here. I just hate to see Cliff making his work load and server load bigger. Seems like he does all the work anyhow... Vic At the very least, this message will bump this topic back to the head again!

I agree. For 15 (canadian) a year you can register a .com... Then host that .com for free on tripod.com and by redirecting through the .com DNS you loose the pop ups. It appears to be professionally hosted, but isn't. Also, we don't need a site that will use a lot of bandwidth, all we need is contact information and a database of who sent what. Very easy, I would even be glad to make the site.

Lets keep this alive.

Archie, My money is on it's way.

quote Originally posted by hugh: Lets keep this alive.

Hmmmmm. I've been waiting to see how long it would take. It took 13 days for this topic to get boosted back up to the top.

I wonder if anyone is actually clicking on that banner we have up at the top of the screen.

I have a very few updates to the donor list I'll post up later this evening.

Archie

Just to keep this to the top, I sent ya a check Archie!