Any opinions on: thecarcover.com?

[sblake01]

Here's a little more about them if that wasn't convincing enough:

http://toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=thecarcover&Dirn=Received+by&ref=home

[CDM]

Have you not checked out the great inexpensive car covers that BRE is selling for the 240Z and they are only about $165 and fit like a glove and have the logo on them as well

[sblake01]

If there is any doubt just look at this link from post #13:

http://www.classiccar.co.il/scam/thecarcover_scam.html

[Arne]

I've cleaned out the shill posts, banned the shills, and cleaned up the rest of the thread. Will lock it as soon as I finish this.

One shill was actually two different people in California (two different IPs and ISPs), and the other (the one who claimed he lived in LA and would go check them out for us "in person") was actually located in Israel.

Side note - I'm pretty much the only moderator left these days, since Mike is on the road a lot, and Will doesn't really drop by much these days. And my time to pay attention to the site is pretty limited. I saw this thread when it was fresh and new, didn't look like anything to be concerned with, and so I never checked back. To add to the problem, the little "Report Post" buttons don't seem to be sending reports to me right now. If they work at all the reports must be going to Mike, who doesn't see them in a timely fashion. First I knew about this issue was from a short voicemail from Escanlon that just mentioned a problem, but didn't point out which thread. I figured it out after seeing the Shout box on the front page.

Sorry for all the explanations, but I guess the short version is that - at least until some of the processes and procedures with moderation and notifications can be debugged, if you see something that needs my attention, send me a PM. (For those of you who know my personal email address, that works too.) That will get my attention faster than any other method, even phone, as I'm tied up in meetings and webinars so much these days that all phone calls pretty much have to go to voicemail - I don't deal with much of anything in real time anymore.

Edited December 16, 2010 by Arne