Re: Ford Radio Display Fix and Threats from a Phony Lawyer

From: sehaare (sehaare_at_comcast.net)
Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 08:59:20 -0600

First, I will not get into a flaming war on the internet. If I did it would
be a sure indication that I did indeed need to "get a life or some
counselling" as you suggested. So this will be my one and only reply to you.

When I did my original reply I did not notice that it was being cross-posted
to several sites (something else that I don't do). The sites other than ford
newsgroup might have standard practices of charging for info, but on the
ford newsgroup thousands of dollars of valuable information and knowledge
are gladly given for free every day (some of which has helped you
personally). I don't think anyone else here would call anyone a
"freeloader", we have some people that have the training or experience to
help others and some people who don't and can benefit from it. I myself used
to be pretty helpful here but have found as my vehicle has gotten older I
have less and less valuable info to share. If you are implying that I
personally am a free loader, do a google search for sehaare here (most post
here will be between 94 and 2000)or the VW water-cooled group or
VWvortex.com and you will see that I've helped out quite a few people (in
fact I just did the search for you and found 37 pages of results).

Scumbag maybe too harsh of a word. You can choose you own word for someone
who:
1) Post to a group whose main function is to give free help, and then tries
to charge for his help.
2) When someone else post to give free help on the item that he is trying to
charge for, he then impersonates a lawyer and sends a threatening email.
(and as someone else posted it appears that this is not the first time he
has done so).

I don't mind someone trying to make a buck off of the internet but, you
don't try and do it in a forum that is mainly non-profit and you don't
attack someone else who has figured out the same thing and is willing to
help others for free.

Steve

"Herb Kauhry" <tiptoe@tulip.me> wrote in message
news:SrOdnboKr_UQzkLcRVn-pg@comcast.com...
>I never cease to be amazed that people think because someone uses the
> internet, that they are somehow obligated to do favors for every
> freeloader
> that passes by. The secret protocol is "help each other", that is to
> say,
> it's a two-way street. Suppose he'd figured it out and never told anyone?
> Maybe there a lots of people who have figure it out but nothing motivates
> them to bother with typing it into a web page. Is that better?
>
> Hard to see him as a "scumbag".
>
> It sounds like you have been letting this gnaw at you for 4 years, like it
> was some sort of personal insult to you. Get a life or some counselling.
>
> --
>
> "sehaare" <sehaare@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:w_udnSVXvbN2vELcRVn-uA@comcast.com...
>> That guy is a scum bag. My radio display broke 4 years ago and when I saw
>> that someone had a website with a fix I thought "great someone figured
>> out
>> the problem and has posted how to fix it". Not this guy, he wants to
> charge
>> everyone for it. There are millions of people who every day post to
>> groups
>> like this to help each other for free and this guy just wants to make a
>> buck. And before someone want to defend him for charging a fair price for
>> his time and expertise, there are plenty of guys on this site (DR. Bob,
> Jeff
>> Singletary, Jim Warman) who over the years have spent many hours using
> their
>> expertise to help others and have not charged a dime. And while I'm not
> here
>> like I use to be, because my car is now getting too dated to answer many
> of
>> the questions on the new cars, I'm always on the water-cooled VW site
>> helping out with all of the electrical stuff and I've never charged a
> dime.
>>
>> So let me get back off of my soapbox, thank you for posting your fix for
>> free, and go back to my personal one man boycott of that scum bag.
>>
>> And one final thing, I would be glad to donate what ever that other guy
>> is
>> charging for his fix to your legal defense fund. And I bet I'm not the
> only
>> one.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "Blanca" <billy.menasco@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1105140165.132079.224080@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
>> > Greetings
>> >
>> > I posted the pictures yesterday on how to fix the Ford radio. Today I
>> > get a email from a "lawyer" saying that he has a client the did the
>> > repair and it burned up his car and apartment.
>> >
>> > Right off I'm thinking that it is a hoax so I go to check the owner of
>> > the domain that the message was sent from "bernstein-siler-law.com".
>> >
>> > I then go check the owner of the domain that sells the info to fix your
>> > radio and guess what, they are the SAME person.
>> >
>> > See the letter here...
>> > http://mysite.verizon.net/res046jx/id5.html
>> > What a low life...
>> >
>> > Billy Menasco
>> >
>>
>>
>
>

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