I would love your support...

Discussion in 'Websites' started by SEbasic, May 28, 2004.

  1. #1
    Alright guys...

    I am in desperate need of your help...

    I have a friend who owns a Vauxhall Zafira.

    There is a known fault with the car that means that the spare wheel can be easily stolen from the car.

    Vauxhall know about this fault, yet refuse to do anything about.

    You can purchace a locking kit for the wheel at the rediculious cost of. £40.00!

    His spare wheel was stolen from his car, which cost him over £100.00 to fix.

    We have set up this Vauxhall Zafira web site to try and get Vauxhall to do something about this problem.

    Would it be possible for any of you to link to this site...

    http://www.sparewheeltheft.co.uk

    With the anchor text...

    Vauxhall Zafira

    If you could, you would be doing me a massive favour...

    We are not making any money from the site in any way...

    He is just an angry customer.

    PLEASE HELP!!!

    Thank's in advance
     
    SEbasic, May 28, 2004 IP
  2. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    #2
    The link to your friends site does not work. Did someone steal that too?! Just kidding, but I'd be happy to link to you if the URL worked. :D
     
    ViciousSummer, May 28, 2004 IP
  3. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    #3
    He had to restart the Server...

    Apologies... Working now...

    Thank's for the support
     
    SEbasic, May 28, 2004 IP
  4. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

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    Nope. Still nothing. :D I'll try again tomorrow... :p
     
    ViciousSummer, May 28, 2004 IP
  5. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    New domain...

    Will work by tomorrow at the latest...

    Thank's for trying

    DNS has to update I guess.

    Here's the IP...

    213.208.116.44

    You should be able to see that...
     
    SEbasic, May 28, 2004 IP
  6. schlottke

    schlottke Peon

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    I'll link out to it too- pretty messed up all the bad things happening to people (shawns CC problems.. stolen tires, etc.. )
     
    schlottke, May 28, 2004 IP
  7. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Yeah,

    It's real bad...

    The company is just taking advantage!

    My friend doesn't have a lot of spare money (He has a family to look after), so when he has to spend £150 on looking after the car too, He is not going to be too pleased...

    Thank's for your support schlottke
     
    SEbasic, May 28, 2004 IP
  8. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    DNS should be updated by now...

    Again, if anyone could link to the site, it would be really appreciated...

    I must emphasise that we are in no way making any money through the site...

    Just wan't the problem with the car to be sorted...

    Cheers for all the help guys...

    SEbasic
     
    SEbasic, Jun 1, 2004 IP
  9. Zodiac51

    Zodiac51 Peon

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    Links working m8 :)
     
    Zodiac51, Jun 3, 2004 IP
  10. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Cheers Zodiac... I was hoping so.
     
    SEbasic, Jun 3, 2004 IP
  11. pstatus

    pstatus Peon

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    I think that is crazy that people are stealling these spares.. and he was mad enough to make a website about it. 31 people logged in with this problem wow... that's just people that found the site... Must be a common problem there? What's the end goal? Get the manufacturer to redesign the car, to make the spare less "stealable"?
     
    pstatus, Jun 13, 2004 IP
  12. Geir

    Geir Berserker

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    Very nice website!
    With 31 visitors registering their loss with the site online for only a couple of weeks, it seems like this may be a pretty widespread problem.

    Keep up the good work, and hopefully Vauxhall will take notice and make right on their faulty design.

    My grandparents used to own a Vauxhall by the way - think it is the only one I have ever seen in Norway. :)

    :) Geir
     
    Geir, Jun 14, 2004 IP
  13. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Thanks for the comments guys...

    Yeah, he is a pretty crazy guy... He really just wants Vauxhall to apologize for the fault and sort the problem out on any of the cars still meing manufactured (also to take the problem a little more seriously...)

    It is now #1 on Yahoo and MSN (who feeds their results now?) for the term "Vauxhall Zafira" (no quotes) and I made a lot of posts on various motoring forums letting people know about the fault...

    Slowly crawling up the google ranks but it is taking time... Cheers for the support guys...
     
    SEbasic, Jun 15, 2004 IP