Along with the helping hand of Bernd, Jon, I give Kudos' to Bruce of Flow
Metrics. Here is a guy like Bernd, you can count on for help or answering
questions.
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Steven St.Laurent
C4I System Engineer
Engineering Branch, PSD, MCTSSA
MARCORSYSCOM, U.S. Marine Corps
Office (760) 725-2506 (DSN Prefix: 365)
"Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government.
It can only exist until voters discover they can vote themselves
largess (generous gifts) from the public treasury. From that moment
on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most
benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy
always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a
dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this
sequence: from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to
liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency;
from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from
dependence back again to bondage.
(By Alexander Tyler Frasier, over 200 years ago.)
-----Original Message-----
From: steve preston [mailto:steve239dak@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2002 8:25 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: Re: DML: RE: Speedtweaks - Response to all
Bernd,you`ve been a tremendous help to everyone on the
list here for years. I hope that people will give you
a little time to get things rolling again. I know what
it`s like to work 16 or more hours a day (as you
probably are) and feel like you`re not gaining
anything,and everything else bad seems to hit at the
same time. These things happen in cycles,like the
economy. When things suck,they really suck,and then it
all turns around again. Keep the faith,buddy!
Steve P.
--- "Bernd D. Ratsch" <bernd@texas.net> wrote:
>
>
> To all those who have been reading these posts and a
> personal
> explanation.
>
> When we first started the SpeedTweaks company back
> in May of 2001, we
> were only internet based and ran a successful
> business. We then decided
> to open up a shop to complete the turbo kit back in
> March of this year,
> along with quite a few other projects to further
> "enhance" the Dodge
> line of performance products.
>
> However, we did take on quite a bit more than we
> could chew and it
> caused a whirlwind of problems for us. We
> re-thought our strategy in
> late June and started to come back up to speed but
> personal problems
> (family), emotional/physical problems (health), and
> issues with orders
> not being forwarded to us from PayPal/our ISP were
> causing more problems
> than they were worth. We also made a few mistakes
> along the way with
> order tracking and processing which caused the
> customers quite a
> headache and we deeply apologize for this.
>
> On the Flometrics issue: Yes, there's no question
> that we owe them a
> rather large debt, but had started to work with
> Bruce in order to repay
> the debt. Economy wise, the funds are slow to come
> in and outgoing
> payments are going where they can. Bruce: I've
> responded to you on a
> few emails on what we can possibly do to clear this
> up.
>
> On the Intense Performance issue: Yes, we owed them
> a small amount of
> money as well but and payment arrangements have been
> made.
>
> Unfortunately, the economy just isn't up to what it
> used to be and we
> are just struggling to try to fill orders that we
> can and refund the
> people who we owe money to.
>
> We are doing what we can to rectify all the problems
> and are doing it as
> funds allow. The new accounting system was to be in
> place but can't use
> it yet as all the orders are being used from an
> online service which
> doesn't import into the new system...manual entry is
> the only way and
> there's just no time for this at the moment (call
> center is also on hold
> as well).
>
> Have we run into a few problems with other vendors?
> A few times but
> nothing that couldn't or can't be resolved.
>
> On the comment about the "Message to customers" with
> the original date
> of 10/18 and modified date, that applies to the
> java-script counter on
> the bottom of the page. Notice the modified date is
> now 10/26 and we
> haven't changed a thing.
>
> We made a mistake with not looking at the entire
> picture of the shop
> (income/expenses) and it's taken a huge toll on us
> and the most
> important people to us...our customers.
>
> We deeply regret what's happened within the last 3-4
> months and can not
> apologize enough. We will do what we can to "fix"
> all the wrong doings.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Bernd
>
>
>
>
>
=====
2001 Dodge Dakota 4X4 Sport RC,Flame Red/4.7L V8/45RFE auto/3.92
limited-slip/16" aluminum wheels/Infinity CD-cassette system.
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