RE: [gti-vr6] Re: Rons Parts Sent Me a Virus!!

["Wally Green" <coolwally@email.msn.com>]

same here. Dustin has always been great to me, especially with the SPAX
warranty issues!
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Wally G.
1996 GTI-VR6 "On the point, and taking fire" edition

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gti-vr6@ccsi.com [mailto:owner-gti-vr6@ccsi.com]On Behalf Of
> Billy T.
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 9:30 AM
> To: jettaglx@igtc.com
> Cc: gti-vr6@cobra.ccsi.com
> Subject: [gti-vr6] Re: Rons Parts Sent Me a Virus!!
>
>
> 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
>
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