AB
24th October 2013, 08:58 PM
Good evening my little chipmunks!
I think It's about time to let everyone know what a great network we have here from all parts of the world and how the generosity of the members always astounds me!
I really don't know how this happened but we have built a great network built on friendship, trust and respect.....Awesome!
In the beginning I struggled with running this place financially with the growing numbers and demand for more bandwidth and storage and here we are today owning our own server to run NP.
Without many of you we would not be here so thank you!
The forum is now self supporting the expenses based on the support for the member sponsors (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/sponsorship.html), vendor sponsors (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/forumdisplay.php?30-Vendor-Thread), Matespace, Google Adsense (When you blokes click on an advert within other parts of the site we get paid a small amount like on the 4WD Pro Tips page (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/4wd-pro-tips.php)) and Ebay (The ebay listings of Patrol Parts (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/parts.html), we get paid a commission when you click through those ads and bid or buy something on Ebay within a certain period...I think 10 days or something).
Each time you blokes click on that it all adds up and with growing numbers It's starting to work out.
There has been a lot of donations over the years for different charities and reasons so I want to put it out there to everyone to simply say thank you and it is greatly appreciated for whatever cause!
I remember I went through some crap and you sneaky little muppets organised a donation for me which I didn't like but of course appreciated it and promised I would give something back hence the picture frame which was a nightmare to mount...lol....Thanks to some members in helping of course.
I remember Scotty shouting me a plane ticket to see the QLD blokes for a meet up, Insane weekend and will never forget it, thank you Scotty!!!!
I remember one of the biggest donations to fix poor Healys GU that some muppet sold him in need of some love. A mammoth amount of funds were raised and a huge effort from Johnathon and George in organising it all (Trust me, those two blokes went through shit trying to organise that so well done gents!), the QLD boys in flying down to give their time and knowledge and everyone else who donated and helped out with various skills. Especially old mate Jas who matched the total dollar for dollar. Holy crap Jas that is beyond kindness mate, I don't even know what to say but thank you for your generosity!!!
I remember everyone chipping in to help buy the domain name Patrol.com.au as a back up source in case everything fell to poo! I still have that name blokes and it will not sell. I actually got offered $1000 last year off someone from a security company who wanted the name but I just can't sell it of course. It's our name and maybe we can build something fun off that when I get time to breath...lol
Bob and Doggy.... who have donated more money to me then I deserve. They need to have a life time Forum Sponsor now...lol....Without naming names there are people on here who shouldn't pay for sponsorship due to their situation and no matter how much I try and even just change them over they still pay the bloody sponsorship....lol
Fran (Rick AKA Silver) to get her flowers which is being organised as we speak and we just topped $100 for a nice bunch of flowers. We need to ensure this keeps happening with respect to our old forum member and good friend to many of us!
What else....I'm starting to loose focus now gents and I am really sorry if I have forgotten any milestone donations here so please reply with other ones I may have missed.
Convoy for SidsKids....Sandgroper donations. I haven't followed that properly but I hope that went well Doggy????
Anyways....I am sure everyone is appreciative of this and I want to first hand say thank you and it is never and I mean NEVER forgotten.
But...I know I am about to get flammed for forgetting something!!!
Feel free to show your appreciation and remind me if I have forgotten something...lol
I think It's about time to let everyone know what a great network we have here from all parts of the world and how the generosity of the members always astounds me!
I really don't know how this happened but we have built a great network built on friendship, trust and respect.....Awesome!
In the beginning I struggled with running this place financially with the growing numbers and demand for more bandwidth and storage and here we are today owning our own server to run NP.
Without many of you we would not be here so thank you!
The forum is now self supporting the expenses based on the support for the member sponsors (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/sponsorship.html), vendor sponsors (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/forumdisplay.php?30-Vendor-Thread), Matespace, Google Adsense (When you blokes click on an advert within other parts of the site we get paid a small amount like on the 4WD Pro Tips page (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/4wd-pro-tips.php)) and Ebay (The ebay listings of Patrol Parts (http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/parts.html), we get paid a commission when you click through those ads and bid or buy something on Ebay within a certain period...I think 10 days or something).
Each time you blokes click on that it all adds up and with growing numbers It's starting to work out.
There has been a lot of donations over the years for different charities and reasons so I want to put it out there to everyone to simply say thank you and it is greatly appreciated for whatever cause!
I remember I went through some crap and you sneaky little muppets organised a donation for me which I didn't like but of course appreciated it and promised I would give something back hence the picture frame which was a nightmare to mount...lol....Thanks to some members in helping of course.
I remember Scotty shouting me a plane ticket to see the QLD blokes for a meet up, Insane weekend and will never forget it, thank you Scotty!!!!
I remember one of the biggest donations to fix poor Healys GU that some muppet sold him in need of some love. A mammoth amount of funds were raised and a huge effort from Johnathon and George in organising it all (Trust me, those two blokes went through shit trying to organise that so well done gents!), the QLD boys in flying down to give their time and knowledge and everyone else who donated and helped out with various skills. Especially old mate Jas who matched the total dollar for dollar. Holy crap Jas that is beyond kindness mate, I don't even know what to say but thank you for your generosity!!!
I remember everyone chipping in to help buy the domain name Patrol.com.au as a back up source in case everything fell to poo! I still have that name blokes and it will not sell. I actually got offered $1000 last year off someone from a security company who wanted the name but I just can't sell it of course. It's our name and maybe we can build something fun off that when I get time to breath...lol
Bob and Doggy.... who have donated more money to me then I deserve. They need to have a life time Forum Sponsor now...lol....Without naming names there are people on here who shouldn't pay for sponsorship due to their situation and no matter how much I try and even just change them over they still pay the bloody sponsorship....lol
Fran (Rick AKA Silver) to get her flowers which is being organised as we speak and we just topped $100 for a nice bunch of flowers. We need to ensure this keeps happening with respect to our old forum member and good friend to many of us!
What else....I'm starting to loose focus now gents and I am really sorry if I have forgotten any milestone donations here so please reply with other ones I may have missed.
Convoy for SidsKids....Sandgroper donations. I haven't followed that properly but I hope that went well Doggy????
Anyways....I am sure everyone is appreciative of this and I want to first hand say thank you and it is never and I mean NEVER forgotten.
But...I know I am about to get flammed for forgetting something!!!
Feel free to show your appreciation and remind me if I have forgotten something...lol