u/Academic_Elk8962

I collect neon signs. I’m in a collectors group online.

I am interested and working a deal on a sign from a gentleman in Georgia. I’m up in upstate New York. The sign is exceptionally large and cannot be shipped through a commerical shipping company.

The seller, who’s a trusted member in this group, wants to send the sign up with another trusted member of the group who offers a “delivery service”. Essentially, he travels for work and acts as a delivery middleman.

The seller would like me to send the money via PayPal G&S beforing handing this sign over the the middleman next month, which is the next time he’s making the trip up to the Northeast.

I know that you can open a claim on a Paypal G&S payment for item never received, and the seller typically has to provide a tracking number. However, given the context of all of this, would I as a buyer still be protected? If I never got the item, could I chargeback and have a case?

Again these are people with handfuls of transactions in the group, but I want to cover my bases when dealing with strangers.

Thanks.

Feel like this is equivalent to being both a Gordon and a Sr fan. Or a Logano and a Kenseth fan.

I about cried after the 2023 truck championship race, but for the past several years, before that race, I’d taken a liking to both of them.

I show up to the races in 77 merch, but it’s always Heim Time in my heart as well. Are there any more of me out there?

I was just running practice in C class fixed at IRP in the trucks.  Joined a practice server 30 mins before the first running at 8:15pm. I’m on a long run, I’m 3k oval iRating and coming up on a 800 iRating guy.  I work a pass on him in the upper groove, my nose is at his door number.  He tries to block, cutting me off coming out of the corner and spins himself out.

This lovely gentleman then decides to wait on the apron an entire lap and drive straight up the banking when I come back around, flipping my truck and ruining my long run (was testing tire wear).

I clipped it and protested him.  

In 2.5 years, I have a folder in my gmail of over 150 protests.  I can count the number of rejected protests on one hand.  Sure, I’m an iRacing Karen.  I embrace it.  

Why do I protest every single incident?  Because I pay good money for this service and refuse to race against people who can’t control their emotions… whether it’s boredom, a fragile ego,  or being drunk (a lot more common in C class trucks than you’d think lol). 

This is your reminder to use that protest button!  And a reminder to keep it clean in any official iRacing server, go race bots if you wanna play Ricky Bobby bumper cars!

ThorSport was always pretty competitive, won 3-6 races a year between 2020 and 2024. Multiple championships.

They were never the best on the track, especially during the KBM days, but kind of hard to believe they went winless last year for the first time in nearly 20 years, and are shaping up for another winless season.

They’ve got plenty of talent and experience behind the wheel in Majeski and Rhodes, wonder if they’re just not investing the same in the equipment and people.

This past weekend at Michigan, I was in the grandstands and ended up sitting next to this old gentlemen, probably in his 70s, he was with his son and law and some of his friends.

This old man started chatting me up. He was a nice dude, kind of gave me grandpa vibes. Was chain smoking in the stands which wasn’t the coolest but other than that he was chill.

He got to talking my ear off for like an hour+ straight pre-race, and started talking about Dale Earnhardt and how he watched him race back in the 80s and 90s. He had a strong disdain for Dale, and he called Jeff Gordon an offensive word for leaving his Winston Cup model wife or something.

But anyways he started telling a story about this specific race. Apparently, Dale Earnhardt was somehow black-flagged 8 times but still went on to win the race? I guess he said the officials were giving him favoritism and penalizing anyone who tried to hold Dale up on his climb back up the field, and everyone was afraid to touch him and they just let him fly by and unlap himself multiple times. It didn’t make a ton of sense to me because why would the officials penalize Dale just to help him climb back up? I felt like he was lying but I had to sit elbow-to-elbow with him for 4 hours so I just smiled and nodded.

Just curious if this rings a bell to anyone, would love to get the name of this race and go back and watch.

Thanks!