Many amongst our ranks provide valuable products or services to the Alpine community on a routine basis, and many of you do it for profit. Examples are Jim Ellis and his Vizard head modification service, Jan Servaites with his Alpine paint samples and lightened flywheels, Ian Spencer with his interior restorations and exchange basis component rebuilds. There are many more I could list but you get the idea.
Because our website is growing so fast with so many newcomers visiting us, can I ask that those who do provide these products and services on a routine basis update their profiles with this information so that when a question is posed we can point the new person in your direction? This would be very simple to do and would make the process much cleaner as to expectations. We've had some recent confusion over who exactly is offering help free of charge or for a fee, and I'd like to avoid this as much as possible.
This also applies to the odd group purchase we have from to time. The most recent example is George Coleman's kind offer to faciliate the group purchase of gear reduction starters. Most of us who have done this sort of thing in the past (myself included with the Series 3 fuel filller gasket) have offered to do it for a small fee to cover our time and labor. I have no problem with that, but please make it very clear up front what the charges will be and what you will be doing for that fee.
No one to date has done anything illegal or shady, but the potential is there as we continue to grow. Full disclosure and upfront communication is the best way to go.
Thanks to all who spent the time reading this reminder, and again my thanks to those of you who work hard on behalf of the Alpine community - we appreciate you!
Because our website is growing so fast with so many newcomers visiting us, can I ask that those who do provide these products and services on a routine basis update their profiles with this information so that when a question is posed we can point the new person in your direction? This would be very simple to do and would make the process much cleaner as to expectations. We've had some recent confusion over who exactly is offering help free of charge or for a fee, and I'd like to avoid this as much as possible.
This also applies to the odd group purchase we have from to time. The most recent example is George Coleman's kind offer to faciliate the group purchase of gear reduction starters. Most of us who have done this sort of thing in the past (myself included with the Series 3 fuel filller gasket) have offered to do it for a small fee to cover our time and labor. I have no problem with that, but please make it very clear up front what the charges will be and what you will be doing for that fee.
No one to date has done anything illegal or shady, but the potential is there as we continue to grow. Full disclosure and upfront communication is the best way to go.
Thanks to all who spent the time reading this reminder, and again my thanks to those of you who work hard on behalf of the Alpine community - we appreciate you!
