RX8SaxMan

I'm going to have to call BS on this guy too. I just cannot imagine how a 16 year old can come up with that kind of money on his own. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't really have an 8...

Aurelius

It is nice to see young men/women working hard to aquire what they want. I didn't get my act together until I was about 25, but oh what a roll!!! :D Before that all I wanted to do was drink, smoke and... well I'll stop there.

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TORacing

ok guys sure what do I really care, but I will fill you in. When I said he would oh them the money that means if they gave me the $31,000 dollars back, then he would oh them $31,000. Incase you were wondring how I got the money, have you heard of the "dot com" boom, I was about ten, I sold a my corporation and website because another guy wanted the name for $20,000. Plus I happen to be a major shareholder in a large company, I know how to invest, I could buy 8 RX-8s a year if I ddn't save. But I'm sure you want believe this either. If you guys aren't going to belive me then why did you start thi thread?

TORacing

You can send me that $10,000 paypal, I will invest it wisely.

RX8SaxMan

Hey dude, instead of just expecting us to believe you, why don't you just tell us how you got rich so damn quick? It might be enlightenting to more than a few of us who would have loved to have $30,000 to blow at age 16.

Sigma

How does one manage that with no money?

And don't tell me that you're talking about that $20,000, as that wouldn't buy you 0.000000001% of any "large company", even if you flipped it several times at a hundreds of percent profit every time.

Out of curiousity what was the domain?


Biggest clue to people lying and/or exaggerating is ambiguity or being purposely vague. Claims like "I sold a domain name" without giving the domain (no contract would prohibit you from saying what it was) or claims of being a major shareholder of "a large company."

People being honest would say "I own a large portion of XXXX Company" or "I sold off XXXX.com, perhaps you've heard of it, back in the day for a large sum of money" -- but those facts are easily verified.

TORacing

www.shoponline.com, ok guys sense you want let it rest until you can say if it wasn't for so and so that you got your RX-8, I guess here it is, the company I own shares in is my families, so yes if my grandfather didn't start the company and then my father take it over, and I wasn't made a share holder, then I guess I would only have $20,000 into my 8. So if your dad and mom hadn't had you then you wouldn't have gotten that job and you wouldn't have an 8 because you wouldn't exist. So if you want to to be **** and narrow it down to pin it on someone else besides me go head, but then wouldn't we all owe it to someone else.

dmorales

I was 18, BUT I had to have a cosigner because I couldn't get the loan approved otherwise; HOWEVER, I make the payments, insurance, gas, and maintenance. In fact I pay $50 extra every month to pay off the loan quicker.
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RX8CaliGirl

Young man, someone needs to set your priorities straight for you. It breaks my heart to read an 18-year old American male with a HOT car, mind you, say that sex isn't a priority. What has happened to the youth of this great nation? :p Someone needs to show you what you're missing. Sigma, set the boy straight! :p

Vitaliy, I agree with you completely. I bought my 8 rather compulsively just because I thought it was the best looking car I had ever seen and when I test drove it...wow...let's just say, it was a feeling RX8SaxMan wouldn't yet know. :p But now that I'm making a lot less money, I am seeing that there are so many more factors I didn't take into account. That doesn't mean that I regret it in any way. I could sell my 8 but I refuse to. I'd rather just not buy the expensive dinners or clothes and keep the money for my 8's upkeep. In any case, life and its expenses are so much different than when I lived with dear ole ma and pa CaliGirl. So for all you youn'uns, enjoy it while you can because when you graduate college and you get your own little apartment, reality is a major bitch. But then you drive your fully-paid (all by yourself, NOT living with mom and dad, NOT co-signed by Grandpa and his inheritance to you, bitches) RX8 that you worked your *** off for and that you look damn good in up Mulholland Drive around midnight, look out at the lights of Los Angeles, and life is pretty good.

Rudsther

Im 17, and i got my car like 4 months ago, i paid everything for the down payment i used my dodge srt-4, , the only reason my name isnt on the title or on the contract is because im 17 as soon as i turn 18 its all going under myname.

Outlaws eXtreme

Honestly Horse, you should invest that supposed money in an education. It is really difficult to even understand what you are saying. Not only are there spelling mistakes (which I can forgive since everyone makes spelling mistakes)... but also you have grammatical errors (which I can forgive if your first language isn't English).

See, the money you got (if I read that correctly... Since you wrote some random gibberish), is that you got the money because of your Grandfather that started the company, then passed it onto your father... and in turn, passed some of the money to you. So I'm still waiting on how it is that you EARNED the money?

"So if your dad and mom hadn't had you then you wouldn't have gotten that job and you wouldn't have an 8 because you wouldn't exist." (How does having kids correlate to getting a job? I read that sentence over 5 times to give you the benefit of the doubt, and TRY to comprehend what you are trying to say. But in the end, it's one of the utmost dumbest thing I've read on this entire message board. Thank you for making me a bit more stupid for reading it.)

We're talking about EARNING money yourself. If someone goes out there and works hard, they EARN the money themselves. They did not have a Grandfather that passed some imaginary stock in a company. (Btw, I checked Shoponline.com, The original owner is ...


Michael J H Etheridge
Rosemary Cottage, Plantation Road
Canada Common, West Wellow
Romsey, Hampshire SO51 6DF
UK

I then further contacted the owner, and he said that he was the ORIGINAL registar of the domain name back in 1995) Check the website out for yourself... would anyone really pay 20k for that domain name?

TORacing

sorry, if my sentence was unreadable, the whole point of it was we all owe something to somebody, so we can all trace some reason for which "we have what we have". Your a strange little fellow if you are going to lookup all this info. I am not sure if I want to privide more proof, you may look it up, and get my name and address and then next thing I know I have a stalker. Shop-on-Line, INC incorporated on May 20th, 1999

RX8-CARL

I'm 42 but feel like a 18 year old.
Just can't catch them on foot :p

BlueEyes

You're point doesn't have anything to do with this thread.

Sure, I owe my capacity to earn to my parents. They birthed me, they raised me with good morals and work ethic, they helped me through university for a couple years. But, everything substantial that I own is the directly the result of my hard work, of my capabilities, of my knowledge, not my parents. Your money, it seems, is the result of being born into the right family and luck. That's not even close to the same, and the fact that you claim it as the fruits of your labour should be rather embarrassing.

Outlaws eXtreme

We don't need the proof. The proof is already on the internet. A Simple search can show you when the company was established, and when the domain name was registered. 1999? Try 1995. That is when the other guy registered it. And before that guy, no one else thought of it.

Not sure what you are trying to pull here though.

Sigma

In his defense there was a company incorporated in NC (where he is from) called Shop-On-Line Inc on the date he specified. And, while I can't see any proof that it actually does any real business, it has filed it's reports with the State every year. You can get full contact info; name, address, and phone on the NC Secretary of State website.

But, yes, the website shoponline.com was registered in 1995 when he was the ripe old age of 6 years old to someone in the UK.

G8rboy

Dude, there's a world of difference between what you are describing and what most people get from their parents in the way of assistance... it's not **** at all. It's great that your parents were able to include you in their family's company and it's financial success, but don't try to compare that to those of us who have scrapped their own ways to success, in some cases despite their parents... not even close.

RPIRX-8

Further proof he got all the money from his daddy, look at this grammar. When you are 16 you should know the difference between "sense" and "since", "want" and "won't", "families" and "family's".

Listen kid, we aren't hating on you because you have an RX-8 at 16. We are hating on you because you won't just say "my daddy bought me an RX-8, I'm such a lucky kid, I truly know how fortunate I am." You claiming any credit for this is spitting in the face of those of us who were not so lucky and had to work our butts off to get this car. You need to spend a year where you are cut off from the parental cash flow and have to work on your own and pay your own bills. If you don't change, let me give you some insight into what you will become. Take a look at Ken Ley and the likes. This scumbag had such a sense of entitlement he had no problem hocking honest people's retirement funds so he could boost his income from $10 million to $40 million per year (or whatever it was).

Learn a lesson, take heed.

TORacing

I am completely proud of what my father and the rest of my family has done, I have a great deal of respect for them, and yes I owe it all to them because if they hadn't busted there *** for the last 20 years I wouldn't have anything that I have. I never meant to mislead you to the point in which you though I didn't appreciate what I have and the work that has been done to get. I also didn't mean to upset any of you who have worked your whole life to get what you have, be proud of yourselves what you have done, and are doing is great thing and I comend you for it. I was just being technical because I do own the vehicle, in my name, it was paid for in full from proceeds that I have (that with out my fathers work I would not have had the oppurtunity to earn), and everything I have said is true, completely, the domain name was never mine ( we were suppost to purchase it, but never got to it), but the corporation is mine the person who purchased it supposedly owned the domain as well. Sorry for my incorrect spelling and grammar I have never been great at either, another thing I get from my father, but you have to give me a little here, my keyboard is broken so I am typeing on the "On-screen Keyboard" program. Guys, hopefully we are cool, and you believe me (because why would I make this up), I hope the tention that has been directed towards me isn't because I am 17 (was 16 when I got the RX-8) and I have a RX-8 and that makes you guys mad, I get enough of that from people at my High shcool and around town (some people can be so mean). Come on guys, I am a real cool guy "once you get to know me". Hey, I am still waiting on the 10k paypal transfer, hahahaha! :D Oh yes plus refering to the statement RPIRX-8 made, I do have a job, I am about to start my third job as an apprentice at a local car dealership, one day I hope to have my own garage, I have also worked as a bag boy and a cashier at Food Lion, and I was head of the bus staff at a local fine dinning restaurant. I still run a few online business deals from time to time, I spend alot of time buying and selling on ebay. Unlike many privileged people my age, I am not spoiled ( unless you include my car), I am not a jerk, and I also have experienced many long days doing actual labor. I think it is a good lesson for people my age, no offense to anyone in this line of business, but it shows us we need to get the best out of our education becuase you don't want to spend the rest of your life as the "bag boy" at Food Lion. Many of friends were very suprised upon getting to know me, they expect the same thing, a jerky, selfish, little daddy's boy, but I'm not (you can ask my friends). You want believe how strange it is to hear something like that from one of your friends, "really when I frist saw you I thought you were a jerk, and didn't want to know you". I hope no one on here will or is treating me the same way just because of my age and what I have.

CowWong

How can you guys get an 8 at 19???!!!
You guys must be rich or something...

StewC625

I bought my first new rotary car at 22 years old, but I do have to admit I used gift money from my grandparents to buy it - money they tried to use to buy me a car for my 16th birthday (my grandfather wanted to buy me a Triumph TR-7), but my parents wouldn't let them. So, they put it in trust until I was 21 and a college grad. Bought the car the Monday after college graduation! A 1985 RX-7 GS, 12 A Rotary, AM/FM Cassette, color was "Tender Blue", and my "mod" was a set of Goodyear Eagle GT raised white letter tires, and a set of Hella fog lights, a front strut bar and a set of Koni adjustible shocks and struts. Autocrossed it like a maniac.

Picture attached. Oh, I loved that car. Wish I still had it!

Stew

CowWong

Man I still have alot long way to get my first car (hope it will be RX-8)...
I'm still a student, and will graduate in 2008...
Dont' think I can get one seriously, it's soo expensive...I live in Toronto, so insurance is like crazy high...

khtm

Horse, learn to use the frickin' Enter key. Nobody wants to read that crap.

G8rboy

Sweet car Stew... I loved the 1st gen's. What was the MSRP of one of those babies in 1985?