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Back in 2005 when I bought the wheels for my Chevelle I had a terrible experience with the vendor that I went through (stupid me should have bought them straight from the manufacturer at the time).
Anyways, I posted a thread here about it - http://www.pro-touring.com/showthread.php?6548-Newstalgi-Wheel&highlight= (it's a long read), but basically a moderator shut the thread down after I got the last word. I got an overwhelming response from this thread...tons of PM's on that site, emails, and had people come up to me everywhere we took the car for a few years following this deal...Powertour, shows, Super Chevy, etc. I had emails and or PM's from guys saying that they asked about the incident at Newstalgia's booth at SEMA, Carlissle, Bowling Green, and several other places. Also got correspondence from others who wrote me just to tell me that they had cancelled orders b/c of reading that thread...one of those guys was in the UK even!
Bottom line, the company was hearing about this incident as much if not more than I was. About a year following this, the owner of the company contacted me asking what he could do to make it right....I said, really?? A year later you are coming to me?....told him to get bent! Apparently Pro-Touring didn't do them any favors by locking that thread with my response being the last b/c that thread was coming up top on a lot of search engines everytime anyone searched "Newstalgia Wheel"....so it got a lot more press than just from forum members out there!
However eventually they did convince the guys at Pro-Touring to alter the thread title so that it wouldn't be picked up as easily...it's now "Newstalgi Wheel", but otherwise the same thread.
Well...fast forward many years later....I haven't forgotten how they screwed me, but I haven't heard anything else about it in a few years either. I was actually contacted today by some jackass with Newstalgia...asking me if there was anything they could do to change my opinion so that I would post a rebuttal and/or ask for the thread to be reopened and "clear the air".
My response was only 3 words.....go fuck yourself!
HA! Apparently this has had some lasting effects on those dicks! I noticed that they aren't a Wheel Vintques Authorized Dealer anymore either...can't help but wonder.
Anyways, I posted a thread here about it - http://www.pro-touring.com/showthread.php?6548-Newstalgi-Wheel&highlight= (it's a long read), but basically a moderator shut the thread down after I got the last word. I got an overwhelming response from this thread...tons of PM's on that site, emails, and had people come up to me everywhere we took the car for a few years following this deal...Powertour, shows, Super Chevy, etc. I had emails and or PM's from guys saying that they asked about the incident at Newstalgia's booth at SEMA, Carlissle, Bowling Green, and several other places. Also got correspondence from others who wrote me just to tell me that they had cancelled orders b/c of reading that thread...one of those guys was in the UK even!
Bottom line, the company was hearing about this incident as much if not more than I was. About a year following this, the owner of the company contacted me asking what he could do to make it right....I said, really?? A year later you are coming to me?....told him to get bent! Apparently Pro-Touring didn't do them any favors by locking that thread with my response being the last b/c that thread was coming up top on a lot of search engines everytime anyone searched "Newstalgia Wheel"....so it got a lot more press than just from forum members out there!
However eventually they did convince the guys at Pro-Touring to alter the thread title so that it wouldn't be picked up as easily...it's now "Newstalgi Wheel", but otherwise the same thread. Well...fast forward many years later....I haven't forgotten how they screwed me, but I haven't heard anything else about it in a few years either. I was actually contacted today by some jackass with Newstalgia...asking me if there was anything they could do to change my opinion so that I would post a rebuttal and/or ask for the thread to be reopened and "clear the air".
My response was only 3 words.....go fuck yourself!
HA! Apparently this has had some lasting effects on those dicks! I noticed that they aren't a Wheel Vintques Authorized Dealer anymore either...can't help but wonder.
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