posted 08-27-2013 10:54 AM                  

The club needed to stand on it's own after the Chrysler BK. Viper parts of America was born. A licensed Mopar parts operation that was supposed to help fund the Viper club events. A past National president... Suddenly was running that for profit business. With no income coming back to the club as it was supposed to.

The 3 main players in charge, systematically started changing the way advertising was done on the forums. Who could post where... Paying vendors could no longer jump into a posted question in the forum and offer a solution to the OP. There was a special vendor area they had to post in. A member couldn't even post a link to something cool on eBay... Cars, parts nada... All in an effort to protect the Viper Parts of America.

There was forum censorship on a massive scale. They started banning people who have been long time members of the Club... Hell one of them even helped start the club! All because he owned a Viper parts business... Granted he did something kinda douchy... He was reprimanded... all parties apologized... He was banned for a year, AFTER they took his $6k for advertising.. after the year was up, they came up with another reason to extend the ban for another 3 years! Crazy stuff... You couldn't even mention this Vendors name in a post. The post would immediately get removed.

If a member asked a question of the BOD's anything financial, or even "where did my post go?" you would be put on "Moderated status" all of your posts had to be approved before being posted. Threads were closed... or even disappear. If the member continued to question.. They were banned...

Theres so much more than what I can even type here... but the bottom line... Members are pissed, and have been (rightfully so IMHO) for sometime... They want the BOD to step down... set up new bylaws and have financial transparency.

If this is all for the best of the club, as the BOD says it is... Then they should really step aside... Time will only tell if this will happen though... They are spinning so hard to find a way to stay on top of a non-profit that brings in $1M+ per year.

posted 08-27-2013 02:10 PM                  

I believe that if they resign the club can go back to being the fantastic club it once was. It used to be the best car club. It can be that again.

Autoblog, All-par and of course Jalopnik all have the story now...

posted 08-27-2013 04:39 PM                  

There is supposed to be a 2013 Viper GTS raffle on the 30th. The drawing location was set for the Woodhouse dealership... They sold out all the tickets. Now the legality of the raffle is in question. There's no lic # on the tickets... as stated in both Michigan and Nebraska raffle rules... Woodhouse is walking away from the drawing... rightly so...

It may not be a legal raffle... Heads have to roll for this... It's inexcusable...

I really hope someone with the power steps in and stops this crazyness... Boot the clowns and reset the entire club. It used to be "come for the car, stay for the friends"... we really need to get back to that...

posted 08-27-2013 05:12 PM                  

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Originally posted by RPL:
Thank you Kala. Ran into Herb at the Credit Union a month or so ago.

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posted 08-28-2013 09:11 AM                  

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/08/27/chrysler-at-war-with-worlds-largest-viper-club/

posted 08-28-2013 10:34 AM                  

There are some letters floating around supposedly authored by Randall. If I find one again that has been publically posted I will re-post here.

posted 08-30-2013 03:32 PM                  

Since we haven't heard anything about the raffle, I called the Nebraska Lottery Commission a few minutes ago to see what the deal is.

The guy who has been dealing with the VCA on the raffle informed me that since this is an unlicensed activity in Nebraska, the VCA cannot hold a raffle in Nebraska.

He recommended to the VCA representative to whom he talked that the VCA get a license in another state.

posted 08-30-2013 03:38 PM                  

If they have to go back to MI for a License as they used get thru the MCVO. I would imagine that they would have to reprint the ticket stubs with the correct info. Mail them out with a live location & date where the drawing is to be held. Before they could actually draw a ticket for the winner... That is IF the MCVO wants to have anything to do with this ....

AND if the people who bought tickets would even want to stay in! This is a big cluster ....

posted 09-02-2013 01:43 PM                  

I have also heard Mr President is resisting the movement to step down. Even though a poll on the VCA site had something like 91% wanting him to go.

I guess we are in for more "Change we can believe in"

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All-

I can’t get into specifics, as the affected parties don’t even know yet. But the board met last night for 4 hours, and are meeting again Thursday (and probably over the weekend) to make some changes.

Last night we made pretty dramatic, decisive, and unprecedented changes in the club structure, and by the end of the week, you will see some huge alterations…

So patience please, things are moving in the right direction, so the discussion of “seceding” is thankfully unwarranted at this point…

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Thanks all!!
GC*
President, North Central Texas VCA
DAL SW Zone

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* I abbreviated his name his name. Not pertanent to info for this site.
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