this is what i was looking for...
Ok.. i'm good now. Just missed this post in my wanderings.
Let me start this by just putting the facts on the table. No emotion and no hidden agendas! I was contacted by two past winners of raffles on the site and they stated they had not received their winnings (Exhaust systems). My interest was sparked and as the owner of the site I needed to step in on behalf of the members. I have been in email contact with Cache in the past and we have spoken quite frequently on the phone over the past 6 months. Chris has a lot of things on his plate right now and this is not about a public flogging of Cache or where he is at. It all boils down to the fact that I can’t get a hold of him and members of this site have been unable to contact him. I did receive an email from him stating that he was having many personal issues but no contact at all on this topic is unacceptable and has left me in a position where I must take action. Chris has for the most part disappeared, not responding to emails, his phone doesn’t work and I have no idea where he is living now. I need to clean things up here before they get even more out of hand. The raffle proceeds have been managed by Cache using his PayPal address so I have no access to any of the tickets that have been ordered in the past so this could be difficult to sort out.
I have spoken to several of the board members on the phone over the past two days to gain insight to what I should do and look for other solutions that I have not thought of.
Here is the roadmap to get this under control
1. I have changed the PayPal address to come directly to my account
2. Every penny that has been sent to the Raffle will absolutely be covered by me personally. No one will be out a penny, this is my site and I knew better than to let this type of thing out of my control. Let me say it again no one is out anything if you want your money back for the Raffle send me an email and I will get you a refund one way or the other.
3. This Raffle can still work, we need to get things under control, reorganized and it can still pay itself off with a winner and me not paying 5k out of my pocket.
4. I need everyone that has purchased tickets to email me a copy of their PayPal receipt so that I can start putting them in order on a spreadsheet. If you do not have the original email you can log into PayPal and get the information from the website. Send the info to
raffle@hayabusa.org so I can organize them ......
5. It is what it is, I am the only person that will be out at the end of this. No member will lose any money because of this situation.
6. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t start the I told you so’s
Of course if you feel that we need to discuss this one on one you can email or PM me. If you are more comfortable with speaking on the phone we can do that also. I am committed to cleaning this mess up and making sure my reputation and the reputation of the board are maintained.
If you know me at all then you know my word is my bond and your money is covered.
Doug King
AKA Captain Owner Hayabusa.org [/QUOTE]