KARMA.........................what goes around.

flatfourfan · 2011-04-07T13:21:21+00:00

This week my eyes have well and truely been opened. People say that the club scene is dead and everyone is in it for themselves but I disagree. I've been struggling my arse off to get belts for my belt sander and Jacques from the forum offered the use of his works woodworking equipment so that I could get things done.............awesome. Last week I bought a Isuzu double cab and promptly joined the Isuzu offroaders club and asked a few guys for help on a tonneau cover, only to have a member forward me on to another member who got me over R500 off the agents retail price and a promise for further discounts if I needed gear. ps...............those that say that karma aint real. 1) This week I sent some guitar spares to a member if he just covered the postage. Just because they were laying around and he could actually need them, I chucked in some extras just in case he could use them too. 2) I'm picking up some spares from Aubrey for myself and Jacques on Saterday, this was actually arranged a while ago. 3) I hooked up a friend with a new car radio from a connection at autostyle after hers was stolen. Who says what goes around doesn't come around?????

chris77

X-rated Bob wrote Just a reminder that GFSA does not necessarily endorse any posts here and you act on anything read here on your own responsibility and at your own risk.

I say this because I recently loaned some gear to a GFSAer and the gear isn't back and the GFSAer in question shows no signs of being keen to return the borrowed kit and isn't replying to emails.

Sorry to burst any bubbles.

I hear you. I have lost more books and CD's by lending them out than I will care to admit in public. Luckily none to GFSA members, but all to friends and acquiantances that I trusted. I currently have a Zoom GFX5 that I lent to the son of a friend of the missus that I will be lucky to get back. The kid has a blast using it whilst learning to play and I never actually used it that much, so I don't have the heart to ring em up and ask for it back. Aagh well, aardse goed. :-[

Bit different if you lent it out with the specific intention of getting it back soon though, and now the guy/gal isn't returning your mails. That's Seriously not on. >☹ (That can be considered theft if your'e being harsh)

Maybe he just hasn't checked his e-mails for a while. Have you got a number to phone him direct?

chris77

I agree that the forum is great though. Shortly after becoming a member, one of the guys on here helped me out with something that I was having problems with when I mentioned it in a thread, by giving it to me mahala. He asked then not to mention that I got it from him on the forum, and I won't do so now (You know who you are. Thanks again man.)
I suspect there's quite a bit of that going around and I think it's great. Some will get mention on here and a lot of it won't (and a lot of folks prefer it that way), but I can guarantee that everytime someone is on the receiving end of it, it makes it easier to be the one doing the giving next time. Now I'm not a philosophical person (not nearly imaginative enough ?), but I think that sooner or later that spirit of helping will snowball enough to translate into something tangible that will touch more than just the parties directly involved.

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