Re: Rons Parts Sent Me a Virus!!

["Billy T." <btylaska@onramp.net>]

Granted, he may have been a jerk to you, but I doubt that he sent you the Happy99
on purpose.  That is how the virus works...  once a computer has it, it sends
itself(the virus), in a separate email, to anybody that receives an email from
that computer.  I think your were pretty bold to ask them for sponsorship as
well, I mean, why would you want to?  They would just send you faulty parts,
right?

BTW, RPI has been nothing but nice to me on the phone.  Always willing to help.
If I needed a part they had, I would not hesitate to order it from them.

Billy T.

MAOberer@aol.com wrote:

> To the GTI and Jetta Lists:
>
>         Recently, I applied for a sponsorship from Rons Parts, Inc.  Their
> president or guy in charge of the parts departments name is Dustin Woodhouse.
>  Let me give you some background on the situation.  About two years ago, I
> purchased a transmission from him for my 90 passat.  I paid around $800 and
> it was used, and had it shipped down, and put it into my passat.  I realized
> that it was a faulty transmission,and contacted Dustin about this problem. He
> was a business man about the whole thing, but only offered me $300 back on
> the bad transmission.  My father and I bitterly accepted this and ate the
> loss.
>         A couple of days ago, as I said, I did apply for a sponsorship from
> them, to which I recieved a smart ass-ed reply saying that I had some "pretty
> amazing nerve" for asking.  He goes on to say that I should be "welcomed to
> the real world" and that I have never bought anything from him for my Vento.
>         And to top this all off, he then sent me a separate email with none
> other than the file "HAPPY99.EXE" attached!! A known virus, of which this
> list has touched on many a time, and has made some people very unhappy!!
>         I did not necessarily mean to apply to Rons parts, Inc, but I came
> across the email address in a magazine, and it was Kapcom@direct.ca...not
> something that in any way shows association with Rons parts, so I figured,
> why not?
>         So in response to his nice letter that he wrote me, and the attitude
> that he copped with me instead of a simple "No, our company will not be
> sponsoring you at this time" or just ignoring the email entirely, I am
> sending this to the GTI and Jetta list (consisting of roughly 750 people).
> Feel free to pass this on to anyone who may be in the VW market, for I feel
> this is unprofessional and downright rude to send me a smartass-ed letter on
> a simple reply, and then to top it off with a VIRUS!!
>
> Thank you for your eyes.
> Matt Oberer