What happened to John?

I asked over in Rosso subscribed. We’ll see? Hopefully it’s a short one?

 

I like John and know him personally some but thats not OK.

 

Folks, don't over-think this. There's no smoke, and there's no fire.

The issue is simple, and I wish people would understand that Ricambi America is a for profit business. FerrariChat is a for profit business.

I am still working closely with John, and that won't change. Ricambi America sells the MSW steering ECU and the MSW sway bars. In fact today, John and I are finalizing the shipment of more sway bars which will be our third (or fourth?) batch of these. Both the ECU and bars remain very popular items in our catalog.

-dp

 

Daniel- Will you two work out your differences so John can come back?

 

Sounds to me like they dont have any. Sounds to me like John is out for rule violation irrespective of his relationship with Danial as it should be.

 

This is not nice to hear but just as with Fabio that won't prevent people from contacting him and benefit from all the good things he has to offer, thankfully.

 

I have had nothing but the best interactions with both parties and I do hope it’s just a bump in the road. I will say that I bought my MSW parts through Ricambi, and no one tried to convince me to do otherwise and I have zero regrets for doing so. I’m a businessmen and I know we all deserve our fair compensation.

 

Maybe I misunderstood. If it is banned as in permanent, I do think its excessive. At the same time protecting sponsors livelihoods is paramount.

 

Speaking of which... Why is there a pic of a lemur (?) in your catalogue

https://www.ricambiamerica.com/210888m-rear-anti-roll-bar-msw.html

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Is there a way to allow someone in but turn off their specific ability to PM/Conversation?
I have no dog in the fight, just trying to think of ways to 'somewhat' solve part of it.
I know a User can turn off this option, I didn't know if an Admin could apply it to a User.

 

Now that we know it's there, please don't get rid of it!

 

I had the MSW rear torsion bar that purchased from Ricambi installed recently. I was hoping for an improvement to what felt like a “slushy” rear end. The improvement is dramatic. It’s like a different car. The kind of tight rear end I like. I highly recommend the upgrade.

 

On Google Earth area 51 used to have a flying saucer parked back behind one of the hangars. One of the space men was cleaning the windows and the other
was grilling some sausages and both were waving at the camera. They have been gone for years.

 

The Aliens or just their pictures?

 

Thought today was fun….was getting some things at Safeway in Saratoga CA over the lunch hour and guy next to me in line was wearing a Ricambi hat!
Asked him what he had….
A 16M and two lambo’s!

I’m already a Ricambi customer but the hat advertising works!

That type of “grocery store camaraderie” was fun and I think of the positivity I’ve gotten from John and I hope things will work out so we can hear more of his future nuggets of wisdom here.

 

I think @rob lay was pretty clear. Its VERY hard to build and run a site like this. I (along with a partner) built, ran and *thankfully* sold MBWorld.org back in the day. The amount of time and thankless hours is enormous. Rob does this as a business, and like any business, there has to be rules and it has to be a high ROI platform for the sponsors.

While these cars and talking about them are a passion for us, there are people on the other side (like @Ricambi America and @rob lay) who feed their families and their employee's families in all or part from this "business" - it is always easy to forget that (and yes, they are just as passionate, but you get the point...). I know that when I was "in the biz" of forums and performance parts/shops - customers expected us to be there for the fun, not the business. Its a hard line to see sometimes.

I think its a testament to Rob that he has kept this site (most of us sold off) and kept it relevant and fun. I think we all need to support him and the mods.

Further, companies like Ricambi pay real money to be here, it is not fair for some to skirt the rules and evade that bill.

 

I was not arguing any of that, I just merely posed a question, a thought.