Where Is The Money?

[Jim Colman]

Casaleenie,
No, I never paid Brent to advertise my product. Yes, I have donated money every year to support CC, partly because of his willingness to support my product, albeit I discount the price by 15% to CC members. I also paid because I knew that especially in the early years, Brent was losing money on this forum. However, by his own words, he stated that he started this forum as a hobby, not as a business venture. Now that it has turned into more of a business, I have a hard time understanding why Turk asked for donations, especially since there was, apparently, quite a surplus of funds from previous years donations.

Evidently there has been some confusion, apparently on my part, concerning the "members discount" section. I use a mac computer and Internet explorer. On my computer at home and at the office, the "discount" pull down doesn't show up. Also, I have not have a single order for the video from CC in nearly a year, hence my belief that this section was dropped. I had e-mailed Brent on three different occasions that my e-mail address had changed and asked him to please change my contact information in the discount section. I never heard back from him so I assumed that he was no longer interested in offering the discount to members section. I assumed that since he was offering advertising for sale he no longer wanted to run the discount section. I have never sold enough copies of my video to warrent buying a banner ad. After losing several thousands of dollars advertising in Kit Car magazine, I was "gun shy" about buying an ad. BTW, I don't advertise on Cobracountry, I sell them my video at wholesale and they sell it at retail.

That being said, Brent has answered my original question. I thank you. I would also like to clairfy that while I have never met Brent in person, I have a great deal of respect for him and I wish him all the best. His forum has certainly helped me during the few years that I owned my car and I was glad to support this forum during that time.

I apologise for any confusion regarding the discount section. Maybe Brent will fix it so us Mac users will see it.

cheers
Jim