JohnR appreciation reel - please help us raise some funds

[Sluggoslinger]

Update: ZeeBass has been kind enough to make this offer

"Stephen

Thanks for suggesting our reel as a gift. I am willing to help! Please let me know the model, ZX2 or ZX2.1 The reel comes two colors, Titanium Grey or Satin Black. I will discount it 25% of retail. So your cost would be $974.00 I will make sure also that the serial number is under 100

Robert Koelewyn"

I have rec'd 115 via paypal so far (1:00PM 9/28). Please make sure to let me know what you handle is with your payment so I can give credit and keep track of who said they would pay and who did. This was very generous of ZeeBass to make such an outstanding offer to us. I think we need a final day for payment so we can get this wrapped up. We're really close, $730 in commitment right now. The final day to donate will be Thursday 10/5/06. Then we'll see what we have and go from there.

Thanks everyone.

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Origional Post:

So, I don't know if I am going to stir anything up here but there is a thread going on in the classified section, scroll down the thread a bit.

http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...ad.php?t=34744

So far we have 11 people that have said they are in, depending on how many people commit, we could get a gift for our fearless leader who has provided all of us with such a great site. My 2006 season was the best of my life and I joined S-B in Feb. I have gotten great advise, met some new friends and have trips planned with members. For all that I invest in my fishing passion which was easily a couple thousand this year I have yet to give back anything accept advise to other members. I guess what I am saying is that it makes sense for me to chip in to getting something nice for JohnR, does it to you?

We'll need an organizer for this and I'm happy to oblidge but maybe one of the moderators will want to or someone who has been around longer so others don't worry that their money might disappear.

Either way, I'm in... Are you?

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EDIT: I guess I'll organize this then. I have a paypal account so you can send your donation Carlton_Stephen@hotmail.com (you can't see it but there is an _ between my name.) or mail checks to

Stephen Carlton
22 Gates St
Apt 3
South Boston, Ma 02127

Make sure to put your Handle on a note with your donation so i know who paid.

From there I am going to just use an excell spreadsheet and put your handle/donation on it so that people can make sure they get accounted for. If we come up short, we'll all have a vote on what is the next best thing. It shouldn't be hard... Whats $20 anyway??? A round of drinks, half tank of gas, a plug... lets do this and we can all end the season feeling like we did a good thing for a good guy.