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Old Sep 30, 2004 | 09:20 AM
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TPIS..... again

Here is a link about what happened with our club and TPIS. Quite interesting.

http://www.mnfbody.com/showthread.php?t=5196
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Old Sep 30, 2004 | 06:22 PM
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Have to consider that TPIS could put a 2 inch ad in Hot Rod and reach 100,000 pairs of eyes. Hard to justify the money for a couple hundred potential customers. These websites and forums do cost money when the members get into the thousands though.
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Old Sep 30, 2004 | 09:29 PM
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Have to consider that TPIS could put a 2 inch ad in Hot Rod and reach 100,000 pairs of eyes. Hard to justify the money for a couple hundred potential customers. These websites and forums do cost money when the members get into the thousands though.
And that ad costs how much??? And we asked for what for our sponsorship???? I'll give you a hint that it could have been measured in the hundreds... And we have several levels of sponsorship that they picked from. And that's just it.... They got much more than advertising space with the sponsorship of our club.....

Plus, it isn't the fact that they ended the sponsorship with the club that has irked us.... Obviously it is up to them if they wish to sponsor a club or not (included in which was advertising space)... It is how they ended the relationship.... The stringing us along for 8+ months before giving us an answer.... It is the bogus (and you can rest assured that it is indeed untrue) claim that financially they saw ZERO gain from sponsoring our club.... And of course there is the claim that they will see no loss in local business due to this....
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Old Oct 4, 2004 | 01:18 AM
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definately pretty poor of them to treat your club how they did without any true reasoning or backing behind the situation. it only makes since for a company to tie into their local state organizations they primarily deal with, one sale of their miniram alone i'm sure took care of any costs through your club for quite some time. with all the troubles they have coming their way it doesn't surprise me though.
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Old Oct 7, 2004 | 10:05 PM
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TPIS is way overpriced anyways.
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Old Oct 8, 2004 | 10:37 PM
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What do you mean by all the troubles coming their way?
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Old Oct 9, 2004 | 10:23 AM
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He is going to go kick all their ***'s
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Old Oct 9, 2004 | 02:43 PM
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yeah that's exactly what i'm going to do...

no they have quite a few actions sought after them for their terrible work.

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Old Oct 28, 2004 | 01:37 AM
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they are way overpriced and their products don't back up the claims they make on their site... end of story. I would never buy anything from them again after I saw the ****ty products one of my good buddies ended up with. I hope nobody else does either.
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