sangiro

Hey all, The Bonfire, like Speakers Corner, is an open forum that was created to provide a platform where skydivers and whuffos can hang out, ask questions, socialize and talk about non-skydiving related stuff. It seems like some people misunderstand what we mean with "open" though.... When we launched the new Forum Rules 4 years ago (yes, it's been that long!) I made a post to help explain what openness means on here. Read the full post if you want but here's a little quote from it: Unfortunately there are users who abuse this forum in exactly the way we did not intend them to. If you are a "loud obnoxious" user who wake up every morning, scour the web for some spam or think of the most useless thread you can come up with to entertain yourself with during the day, then you're abusing this platform. If you try to come up with post after post to enhance your online reputation as the provider of "shock value" then you're doing the same. If you are one of these people, I suggest you take a step back and reconsider your posting habits on this site. It's not fair to expect other users to wade through and around the garbage that you dump here, nor is it fair to expect the moderators to baby-sit individuals who clearly have no interest in helping us create the kind of environment that we're hoping to build here. Contrary to what you think I can assure you your behavior drives away a lot more people than the small group of like-minded posters who jump onto every senseless thread you create to cheer you along. I'm not going to be content with you driving away people from this site. I will gladly see you to the door. I know very well that this message only applies to a small group of people, so I do apologize to the majority who have always been coming here to chat, make friends and have a good time. Let's have fun - keep it clean!

The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled. Safe swoops Sangiro

Sorry about that. Here's a note from my host: Spam volumes are high for all free email account providers. We have no control over how people use their dropzone.com email addresses and where they publish them. Best we can do is to try and manage the the spam best we can - unfortunately for us that requires processing power from our servers. All should be resolved again now. Thank you for your patience.

The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled. Safe swoops Sangiro

I'll gladly answer your 'question'. Dropzone.com does not make a single penny from the annual boogie. Nothing. Which scholarship account would you like me to deposit that into? You actually made the leap by assuming. Safe swoops Sangiro

Spence, Thought I've never met you, I have always and still consider you a friend. You're not going to be treated differently (call it "flexibility" if you want) because you "promote the site" though. No it doesn't, but that's not really the point is it? What you're basically saying is: "As long as I'm out there telling people about Dropzone.com and promoting the site I should be allowed to break the rules and be treated differently." And if that's not what you're saying then I assure you, there's a mighty long line of users who also host boogies and events who can't wait to read it like that. I trust I don't have to spend too much time explaining that slippery slope to you. This is true. Do you just say this or do you actually apply it yourself? Sorry for getting on your last nerve. Sit back and enjoy the site. This forum will still be there when the time comes to start making the list for this event.

Spence, I have pretty strong sentiments about users creating a new thread to bypass some action that was taken by the moderators. Please don't do that again. That aside, there are a few people here who start 'event' threads (usually of a boogie they organize or are closely associated with) 5 months or more before the actual event and then ride it out for as much free publicity as possible for as long as possible. We're not going to baby-sit this thread for the next 5 months. I suggest you wait till we get much closer to the time and then try this again. The Skydive Arizona Holiday boogie still remains the only official DZ.com sanctioned event and we promote it as such on this site whenever we see fit. Safe swoops Sangiro

Then we did not get the same emails. I got email before the site existed to tell me about it's eminent arrival, and none after I checked it out. I'm not sure it's a smart idea to patronize (even if just slightly) such a large portion of your potential visitors while asking them to come visit your site. Good luck.

Hehehe! I somehow ended up on the mailing list for MCN. Got a loads of email while they wee building it to hype up the launch. Checked it out when it finally got going. Safe swoops Sangiro

Regardless of Gary's (positive) experience, I advise that you never do business with anyone who request a Western Union transfer. Western Union payments feature in a very high percentage of the attempted scams on this site. It's a simple way to reduce a lot of risk. Ask for a phone number and call whomever you're dealing with - don't be lazy! A 5 minute phone call and a few pointed questions makes it really easy to filter out scammers before you ship off your $3000 rig into the unknown. Safe swoops Sangiro

The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled. Safe swoops Sangiro

We suspend his account every time we find out about him and as soon as we find out about him. he egisters new ones from time to time. But think about it a bit. If he sends out 100 emails before somebody lets us know that he's just registered a new username, then he's established contact with 100 people. After that you communicate via email with each other. Nothing we can do about that. My suggestion to people who sell gear on here is simple: There's a security setting that allows you to choose how long a person need to be a member before they can contact you (we do have control over the initial contact). Simply set that to "60 days - 2 Months" (or higher!) when you list your gear. There may be a few legitimate users who have not been members for that long who may want to contact you but that's the trade-off. Scammers will VERY seldom register a username and come back in 2 months to use it. They want immediate results. You can do a lot to control who contact you and mitigate your risk in the classifieds. We will continue to disable accounts the moment we confirm somebody is trying to scam our users. Safe swoops Sangiro

The following scam has been reported: Click here to read more about these kind of scams. Remember: DO NOT do business with anyone who offers to send you payment for a higher amount than your selling price with the understanding that you'll send back the balance. Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be acting on behalf of a "client" or another "customer". Be suspicious of anyone claiming to be from Nigeria or West Africa If you agree to accept a check payment, then do not send anything, gear or "change" before the check cleared. And be careful, if you manage to clear a fraudulent check then you may be liable for the damages if the bank finds out later. Make sure your bank authenticates the check. If it sounds to good to be true, then it probably is.This username has been disabled. Safe swoops Sangiro

This is sad news indeed. My thoughts are with his family and friends. Safe swoops Sangiro

It's not one of your designs. Without prejudice to my sentiments about your business ethics I have no intention of getting myself worked up about this. Lee from Velocty Sportswear wanted to do something similar a while ago. They showed me the courtesy of asking and I explained to them why I prefered they didn't. They respected that wish and I now hope people will spend money at their t-shirt store instead. Happy holidays all!

Never a truer word spoken! Safe swoops Sangiro

Oh nothing that heavy I can assure you. I just love those 2 pictures because she looks like a little "girl" in them. She's a happy little soul and will crack a smile at anything that moves.

Heya all, If you'll allow me to be a dad for minute. Over the least 10 months a lot of people have been asking how Anmarie is doing. Thank you for that. As you can see, she's doing great! In a world where things are often uncertain and somewhat confusing, this to me remains so clear it boggles the mind. She's an awesome little blessing.

Happy B'day Scott! Safe swoops Sangiro

Those are not facts, it's your opinion and it's wrong.... in my opinion. Be careful how you tread from here. Safe swoops Sangiro