In the infamous words of Jack Nicholson, “YOU WANT THE TRUTH?? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!”
As so often happens on forums, some of the facts presented are far from the truth and some readers don’t really want to know the truth, but would rather promote more controversy and in the process try to promote themselves or their business! I will try and keep this short but its gonna be tough!
1. This Gas Plus issue was brought up at a Club meeting back at the beginning of December, 2009, dealt with, and the Club has moved on to other items that involve running a Club.
2. Nearly 3 months after the initial post I made concerning a local gas station that did not advertise with the Club, SOMEONE still insists on causing problems, and it is not the Club/Directors or me! It is my opinion that it is someone who is in it for their own gain and it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out who!
3. A smear campaign has been launched locally to discredit certain Club members, myself included, in a vain attempt to make it look like the Club is responsible for a certain gas station from not succeeding , when in fact, that very smear campaign has done nothing but discredit the previous and present owner of the station.
4. Smokindave, if it is me you refer to in your post as the groomer person you too should get your facts right. I have nothing to do with the advertising end of the Club nor have I ever spoken to the new owners about advertising. I am only assuming this as you make mention of other posts made by “the person“, which I can only assume is me. If you remember correctly you sent me mail and apologized for any problems caused and that you should have removed the post earlier as it was “off topic”, plse get it straight, there are enough lies and innuendo going on right now. As well, because those particular posts were deleted from Sno West, the readers are again guessing as to what was said. Also, your comment that readers should not support anything I say on the Internet is totally out of line for a moderator, you should try to stay on topic and get the real facts straight before you condemn someone!
5. The only “chit” disturbers are those presently engaged in spreading lies to other sledders concerning what was said, and once again, locally, we know who they are. If it is wrong for a Club member to tell others to support a particular business because they support (advertise!!) with us, then guilty as charged. According to tranquillicer we publicly stoned them, wrong again, no such thing was ever done and, there was never any request to boycott them on this site, get it right. According to Guenefere something was posted on the Club website about this, wrong again, I do the website and nothing was ever mentioned on it regarding this incident. Does anyone see a pattern here?
6. The Club, but especially the President of it, has gone above and beyond what would be normal in an attempt to try and help out the gas station in question, and all to no avail. The owner would appear to not want any help that the Club has tried to give him, and refuses to even sit down and discuss it in a civil manner. The Club even offered a payment plan to the owner for the couple hundred bucks of advertising and that it didn’t have to be paid until next season! They were offered a prime spot for advertising on the reverse side of our trail tickets, this too was refused. Just how much is a Club supposed to do to “help out” a business, give them free advertising? I think not. And, if its free advertising they want, they’re getting a ton of it out of this website, and I have no doubt this is also a planned move on their part because by the looks of some of the posts they’ve drummed up some business!
7. The simple fact is, that there is a business up for sale, the previous owner does not want to get it back, and the current owner has not been able to drum up the business he thought he could. If the 4-5 Club members that used to go to his station to fill up don’t anymore and it makes his business fail, then I don’t think it would have made it anyways.
8. An apology? I was raised knowing full well that if you do wrong to someone, then an apology is in order. I haven’t done that nor has any of the other Club members that I know of. You “do gooders” and bleeding hearts will believe any boo hoo story that comes across you plate/internet and run with it before you get all the real facts, brain up. If an apology is in order its to the Club members that have been slandered.
The bottom line is this. You go to any gas station you want to, its that simple. If you go to a gas station that supports our club via their advertising with us, then thank you very much. To those causing all the problems and spreading the lies, get a life and perhaps use some of that energy to help the Club out rather than try to belittle it. ………………Sherm
