Serious question regarding the Self Parking Lexus (Page 4/14) 84fierotrevor DEC 04, 04:19 PM quote Originally posted by jstricker: I don't care how old you are you still post like a spoiled child. Spend your money however you want, coming from Hollywood is certainly no guarantee that you spend your money wisely. Extended warranties are by and large a rip off. They have to be or the companies offering them would be out of business. It's the way it works. The premiums collected are greater than the money spent for repairs. What you're buying is peace of mind and that's only required if you think you're driving a car that is 1) very unreliable and will need service or 2) even routine service costs way out of proportion to the repairs of other cars. As to your business..........well, whatever. At least you're employed and that's a good thing. I'm a little confused about a few things, though. You have pictures of two different cars, as well as you've mentioned your Fieros. You aren't paying for those with a couple of sunglass kiosks, I guarantee that much. You also have the kiosks in Washinton State but you live in the LA area. That's a hell of a commute, so you're paying employees. Again, whatever. Yes, I understood your post was complete and utter BS in the thread about racing the "porshea". For it to be a joke it has to be funny. It wasn't. What IS funny is how you seem to think that your car is a "drivers car" when it's a fairly anemic (considering it's price) 4 door with an automatic, abs, and traction control. Putting BMW on the front doesn't automatically make it a sports car. My opinions of your car don't matter, though, as long as you like it. Likewise, your opinions of what *I* drive, own, and build don't matter to me either. I'd even put my wife's '98 Riviera up against your BMW (even though it has nearly 300,000 miles) and I'll bet you'd have to work your butt off to turn a quicker lap on a road course. And that's the least "sporty" car I own. We can work up from there......... John Stricker do some reasearch on kiosks before u tell me how i paid for my cars. my kiosks paid for my cars. and alot more then that. and my locations arnt even close to the best. there is a kiosk in vegas that sells razzle dazzle jewelry cleaner and nets more then 90 thousand a month. the mall of louisiana's sunglasses kiosk nets 30 thousand a month. my kiosks net only 12-15 a month. but the key is to have more then once. my old boss randy imahoff owns 16 kiosks. in very good locations. he unlike me sticks with sunglasses. "i am branching out" he makes millions a year. seen those new funny lookin slippers that look like sneakers? those dudes started out at the bottom and in about 6 months are making millions a year as well. kiosk business are very profitable if u have decent locations and know what sells. as for the 1999 rivera taking the bmw 530i m sport on a track? are u talking a car to car comparission. or just trying to brag that your such a good driver you could smoke me on the track in my bmw? and yes I know its a automatic. I didn't buy it to race on the track. I didn't buy my fieros to engine swap them ether. the car was bought to drive. and happends to be a m spot package. i have fell in love with bmw enough tho, that I am looking for a e36 m3. 5 speed. and a e46 m3 as future cars. ones that WILL be taken to the track. 84fierotrevor DEC 04, 04:33 PM quote Originally posted by Tinton: Hahahaha **** you. So what if you're 2 years older than me? Suddenly you're king of the racers and I'm a punk kid who only knows how to drive based off what I saw on F&F? Yeah, get your head out of your ass. You have 5 cars and you're 23 years old? You can't even type straight, give me a ****ing break. You can't afford that **** , I bet your parents bought that BMW for you with the extended warranty. No wonder, you're probably some dumbass rich trust fund kid from California. Traction control is gay. Fact. I speak nothing but truth here. If you're looking for performance driving, TCS, and stability control WILL hold you back. True, you can turn it off. But why have it in the first place? Because you can't drive worth **** in regular traffic? i just saw you live with your grama? who is the one sucking of moms tit? or i mean grama's, where did i say i aqm the king of racers? do u act like this in person to people? no wonder your still a virgin. Traction control is gay. Fact. I speak nothing but truth here. If you're looking for performance driving, TCS, and stability control WILL hold you back. True, you can turn it off. But why have it in the first place? Because you can't drive worth **** in regular traffic?[/QUOTE] why have it in the first place? read my firsts posts. because not everyone wants to learn to performance drive. they just wanna go to work. thats why have it. same reason u can turn it off. they give you the choice. i love how u make up **** about how i live off my mom without even knowing anything about me or bothering to look up my privous posts. yet you drive a fiero, live at ur grama's and sold a camaro you have admited in previous posts you didn't fully even pay for yourself. or pay for at all? to fund your project. before u go ranting about how shitty traction control is and how it cant save lives. which it already has. ask grama for some money and go to a driving school, and stop pausing and rewinding tokyo drift. Patrick DEC 04, 05:18 PM quote Originally posted by 84fierotrevor: there is a kiosk in vegas that sells razzle dazzle jewelry cleaner and nets more then 90 thousand a month. the mall of louisiana's sunglasses kiosk nets 30 thousand a month. my kiosks net only 12-15 a month. On the rare occasion I venture into a mall, the only people I usually see at a kiosk are the bored employees who look like they wish they were elsewhere. Hard to imagine that a fortune can be made selling jewelry cleaner or sunglasses at a kiosk (or two). What are they really selling at these kiosks? Tinton DEC 04, 07:26 PM quote Originally posted by 84fierotrevor: why have it in the first place? read my firsts posts. because not everyone wants to learn to performance drive. they just wanna go to work. thats why have it. same reason u can turn it off. they give you the choice. i love how u make up **** about how i live off my mom without even knowing anything about me or bothering to look up my privous posts. yet you drive a fiero, live at ur grama's and sold a camaro you have admited in previous posts you didn't fully even pay for yourself. or pay for at all? to fund your project. before u go ranting about how shitty traction control is and how it cant save lives. which it already has. ask grama for some money and go to a driving school, and stop pausing and rewinding tokyo drift. First off, I haven't lived with my Grandmother in a year, so STFU. I paid for my Sidekick, both of my Fieros, and my Camaro by myself. That's approximately $30,000 worth of cars. Not the best by any means, hell you overpaid for some piece of **** weak BMW with granny-controls because you can't drive. TCS can save lives, IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO ****ING DRIVE! People drove for many years without it, if you learn how to not lose traction in dangerous situations, you can drive a car that's not equipped with TCS just fine. The traction control is just added assurance, and if you're looking for any kind of performance driving, its a handicap. With my graduation from High School, I had the option of going to Panoz Racing School here at Road Atlanta, or going to Switzerland to ski. These were graduation gifts from my Aunt. I chose to go skiing, because I wanted to travel overseas and see the world. Just because I haven't been on a track, doesn't mean **** with my experience with stability control systems. They limit you when you're driving for performance, and in regular day-to-day its possible to get along without them just fine. As I think I've said before, I am not into street racing or drifting or any of that crap. I didn't even see Tokyo Drift until it was at the dollar theater here, and I don't have it or any of the other F&F in my DVD collection. Sorry, I'm not a wannabe boy-racer like you. That's bullshit that you're able to make that much money off ****ing sunglass kiosks. Where did you get the money to buy them? WTF, did you go work at McDonalds for 5 years and saved up the money to buy them? You received help from someone down the line, you haven't even mentioned your Father yet. I bet he financed your little business ventures. 84fierotrevor DEC 04, 07:49 PM quote Originally posted by Tinton: First off, I haven't lived with my Grandmother in a year, so STFU. I paid for my Sidekick, both of my Fieros, and my Camaro by myself. That's approximately $30,000 worth of cars. Not the best by any means, hell you overpaid for some piece of **** weak BMW with granny-controls because you can't drive. TCS can save lives, IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO ****ING DRIVE! People drove for many years without it, if you learn how to not lose traction in dangerous situations, you can drive a car that's not equipped with TCS just fine. The traction control is just added assurance, and if you're looking for any kind of performance driving, its a handicap. With my graduation from High School, I had the option of going to Panoz Racing School here at Road Atlanta, or going to Switzerland to ski. These were graduation gifts from my Aunt. I chose to go skiing, because I wanted to travel overseas and see the world. Just because I haven't been on a track, doesn't mean **** with my experience with stability control systems. They limit you when you're driving for performance, and in regular day-to-day its possible to get along without them just fine. As I think I've said before, I am not into street racing or drifting or any of that crap. I didn't even see Tokyo Drift until it was at the dollar theater here, and I don't have it or any of the other F&F in my DVD collection. Sorry, I'm not a wannabe boy-racer like you. That's bullshit that you're able to make that much money off ****ing sunglass kiosks. Where did you get the money to buy them? WTF, did you go work at McDonalds for 5 years and saved up the money to buy them? You received help from someone down the line, you haven't even mentioned your Father yet. I bet he financed your little business ventures. my dad left us when we where 2, i havnt seen him in many years. go look up the sunglasses business before u tell me how much money is made dumb **** . the lowest net amount i hqave ever seen at a mall kiosk was 3000 a month in the shittiest mall i have seen in my life. did u not read above? i got the money to start my first business by selling my sport bike, which i paid for as i worked at a manager at a sunglass hut where i learned the ins and outs of the business. look how stupid you make yourself sound when u try and tell me what mine and other kiosks make. go look it up before you open your moth about somthing you know nothing about. LOOK IT UP. if they din't make good money why the **** is there a sunglass kiosk in ever mall some have more then one per mall. in almost every mall in america. why are there so many kiosks peroid? malls are packed with them for a reason. think about that before u go off telling me how much my kiosks dont make, yes thats why i drive around in bmw's that u call shitty. when your driving a 80's econo shitbox. yes bmw's are just such crap. and why do you keep using me as a example? and keep acting like i said i was some super racer? stop spouting off stuff i didn't say and stick to the subject. and like i said before 100 times. not everyone wants to learn to perofmrance drive. and tcs have and will continue to save there lives. keep talking **** on them tho, considering you have never driven a car with one im sure you know everything your talking about. 84fierotrevor DEC 04, 08:06 PM quote Originally posted by Tinton: First off, I haven't lived with my Grandmother in a year, so STFU. I paid for my Sidekick, both of my Fieros, and my Camaro by myself. That's approximately $30,000 worth of cars. Not the best by any means, hell you overpaid for some piece of **** weak BMW with granny-controls because you can't drive. TCS can save lives, IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO ****ING DRIVE! People drove for many years without it, if you learn how to not lose traction in dangerous situations, you can drive a car that's not equipped with TCS just fine. The traction control is just added assurance, and if you're looking for any kind of performance driving, its a handicap. With my graduation from High School, I had the option of going to Panoz Racing School here at Road Atlanta, or going to Switzerland to ski. These were graduation gifts from my Aunt. I chose to go skiing, because I wanted to travel overseas and see the world. Just because I haven't been on a track, doesn't mean **** with my experience with stability control systems. They limit you when you're driving for performance, and in regular day-to-day its possible to get along without them just fine. As I think I've said before, I am not into street racing or drifting or any of that crap. I didn't even see Tokyo Drift until it was at the dollar theater here, and I don't have it or any of the other F&F in my DVD collection. Sorry, I'm not a wannabe boy-racer like you. That's bullshit that you're able to make that much money off ****ing sunglass kiosks. Where did you get the money to buy them? WTF, did you go work at McDonalds for 5 years and saved up the money to buy them? You received help from someone down the line, you haven't even mentioned your Father yet. I bet he financed your little business ventures. yes, i can't drive because one of my cars is a automatic. nevermind my fiero, my srt-4 my fierbird formula my miata, ect. ect. where all standerds. nevermind i have tracked a 150 hp yamaha 1000cc literbike, that most people including u can't even ride off on without lopping or wrecking. nevermind all the scca racing events i have been in. no tinton. your little youtube video of you doing a bunrout in your automatic camaro was real driving! thank you for telling me how my business ventures can't buy me the bmw's I already own. hows yours going? since this has turned into a personal insult each other thread because you KNOW for a FACT that abs and bmw's are piles of **** . and that your such a great driver. please tell me how your business venutres are going. also please explain to me. how you paid for your camaro all by yourself without grama's help. i just posted proof of mine. "business liceinse showing I own a business. pictures of my business's if i wasn't in louisiana 1800 miles away from my file cabnit I woulde post a picture of my earning on a monday. when I am done opning my current kiosk out here. I will gladley post a picture of sales summery, credit card machine batch files. please feel free to show me the proof of you paying for your own camaro. fact is. you didn't pay for it by yourself. where do you work again?? Psychosis39 DEC 04, 08:39 PM I wouldnt think such an arguement would occur with such a passive topic. Some of you guys have too much time on your hands and need to grow up. If you are too cool and have to triple post at a thread that shits hilarious. Peace JIm jstricker DEC 04, 08:47 PM Of course a fortune can be amassed with a couple of mall kiosks. I read it on the "internets", it must be so. If only Sam Walton had known he wouldn't have had to build all those darn big Wal Mart buildings................... Steve Jobs would have never had to leave his parents garage............... Warren Buffett would have been rich a long time ago...(oh, wait, he was, and I'll bet he never owned a sunglass OR jewelry cleaner kiosk)........... John Stricker quote Originally posted by Patrick: On the rare occasion I venture into a mall, the only people I usually see at a kiosk are the bored employees who look like they wish they were elsewhere. Hard to imagine that a fortune can be made selling jewelry cleaner or sunglasses at a kiosk (or two). What are they really selling at these kiosks? Mr. Pat DEC 04, 08:51 PM quote Originally posted by jstricker: Of course a fortune can be amassed with a couple of mall kiosks. I read it on the "internets", it must be so. If only Sam Walton had known he wouldn't have had to build all those darn big Wal Mart buildings................... Steve Jobs would have never had to leave his parents garage............... Warren Buffett would have been rich a long time ago...(oh, wait, he was, and I'll bet he never owned a sunglass OR jewelry cleaner kiosk)........... John Stricker Thats an assanine thing to say. there is so much money to be made out there it would blow your mind how simple it is. He obviously found a niche and it seems to be working out great for him. jstricker DEC 04, 09:03 PM No it's not assinine at all. Anyone that believes the claims he's making of his NET INCOME is simply not thinking through the numbers. $15k/mo is $180K per year that he claims is his NET INCOME. You tell me you believe someone with two sunglass kiosks is making $180K/year and I have some frigging beachfront property in Kansas to sell you. You've seen the kiosks, they basically sell junk. Designer knockoffs at cheap prices. at 100% markup on a $25 pair of glasses you figure out how many pairs he has to sell a day. AND pay his help. AND pay his rent to the mall. AND pay his taxes. AND pay his incoming freight. AND AND AND.............. Give me a break. I used to do business analysis for a living. I'm not saying he doesn't have them. I'm not even saying he's not making some money. But if you were making $180K/year, would you be driving used BMW family cars at 23 years old? Not on your life. Good luck to him, and I really mean that, but there's been plenty of BS spread around here for one thread and it's mostly been coming from Trevor. John Stricker Oh, and Trevor, I'll let my WIFE beat your Bimmer in the Riv. John Stricker quote Originally posted by Mr. Pat: Thats an assanine thing to say. there is so much money to be made out there it would blow your mind how simple it is. He obviously found a niche and it seems to be working out great for him.