The writing was on the wall, MINI2 had a horrible split and has never recovered after it was sold, NAM is just history repeating itself. It's not like it's a major surprise. I didn't realize you were offered money to run NAM by IB, I always thought your heart was in the right place in starting MA, but I'm even more impressed with that being the case. Does Drew get paid over there? In a weird way, I'd at least understand his motivation then, even if it's misplaced. If no one over there is getting paid, then it's essentially an ego trip thing, letting themselves be violated by IB in order to have a power trip. How anyone could look themselves in the mirror while being used in such a way is beyond me.
I think you mean MINI2, the UK based site that was purchased by Vertical Scope. The results of that purchase were MINITorque and totalMINI starting. In the US after NAM was sold a few new sites popped up, none gained traction as the owners didn't have the commitment. When NAM was sold I was asked to stay on as the admin. While Mark F didn't pay me in cash I did go to MINI events such as MOTD with expenses covered by NAM. IB being at the time a public company bought NAM, I asked to be paid. They laughed at me, said they would never pay admins since so many wanted to do that for free. 4 months later when no one was really doing anything to run NAM a contract and check arrived from them. They told me to keep quiet as admins on other sites are not paid. I told Drew, when I quit, to tell IB he wanted money. As far as I know he never did.
Thanks Nate--I meant MINI2, edited to fix that. The rest of your post leaves me, for the first time in my life, speechless.
Quite a history lesson here. I had no idea! As for Sunday, my wife and I will head to the LXM meeting. Having been in Ohio all of a month, always looking to meet more peeps that are into MINIs.
For some reason I feel as I need to justify the banning of this character. It's not for the fact he ripped off some folk, he did make good on that and believe you me, I am a fan of second and even third chances. Heck, those of you that were part of M/A early know of Lynn. He was quite skilled at putting himself in that noose... Anyway, when I learned of the convicted sex offender status that was it for me. This is not without precedent either. Remember Deviant? He bought my Space Blue centered BBS wheels way back when. He's also doing time as a sex offender, at least another 10 or so years with the Feds... You don't play with kiddie pron while in the Army. Does not go over well. Anyway...That is what did it for me. Call me overprotective, call me old fashioned, but dang nap it, I call em the way I see em.
I found it quite interesting that the the 2 or 3 times we met him he gave a different name each time. One time he told Babs his name was one thing & then told me another. Just kind of fishy. From what I remember the person he ripped off was a police officer. That just might have had something to do with his doing the right thing & repaying the money he scammed.
Call me overprotective, call me old fashioned, but dang nap it, I call em the way I see em. I'll just call ya Nate.... [ame="http://youtu.be/qoYsfbq3vMc"]http://youtu.be/qoYsfbq3vMc[/ame]
That does absolutely nothing for us voyuers in this thread... I'm beginning to think you work for Motoring File, that's right out of their playbook. MF NEWSFLASH :"We have heard from reliable sources what the next ten MINI models will be, including specs and pricing!" End of newsflash.
A side benefit from the farking fracking is some roads have been improved & paved to handle the trucks. A drawback is meeting a big farkin truck using your half of the road. Fark that!
I sent a guy named Tom a message about getting together with his group and I was told to pm "john Cooper" aka slimeball. When I asked his real name he never responded.