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a haven for crooks and scammers NOW?

hardly

That is just not true at all.
Most of us, the few that were there everyday use'n most of if not all of our free time believed that "mission statement" and had all the good reasons in our hearts, why else would we have done what we did?

We trusted in one and all and there is nothing wrong in that at all.
The real moral to the story is the ole... One Bad Apple.

Hardly!!!! Perfect description of SOS!....the c+s guy's have found a place too weak to get rid of them. SOS current dismal dollar value would decrease if they did...to nickels, dimes and pennies.

I have to say one thing because his name was brought up a few posts back. Brooks has only been very kind to me and my significant other. He has been VERY generous and has asked or implied needing anything in return. I am not going to say anything more. I just wanted to let the record stand as I see it.

And to think this 153 pages is summed up in two words.
1. crooks
2. scammers

Wow, didnt realize this thread was still alive. I have some catching up to do.

Which is why Brooks should never stoop so low as to join in with the mob of one or two against Jay. I guess the old saying..."class isn't something you buy", stands up well here. Shame on you BBB..

Would someone care to enlighten me on what specifically brooks alledgedly said/did?? I have never noticed him to be involved in messes/internet politics.....

See the screen cap from post 1497. They have gotten pretty volatile in some of the threads. He has done a significant amount of Alec/Jay bashing of late. Which frankly surprises me but I don't know him well enough to say anything more. There are more if you search his posts.

It isn't a haven for anyone because no one is left.

In the beginning it felt like a site for powerboaters, by powerboaters. The 'powerboaters' being like minded people instead of a major corporation (IB). Just like OSO was when Steve owned it... only better because it had more of an 'us' feel even to the average member.

Now what place does Serious have? What point does it serve? No one feels like it is going to help give us powerboaters a better name through charity, that's for sure. No one wants to spend the time making it better because it is tainted. The major difference it had in the beginning is completely blown... now it is just another forum at best. Relative to OSO and a few other sites out there it just doesn't have a place because it has no where near the membership, information, or anything else.

But they do have the "Ho's", the "Queen on Bammin", and the "Official raise your post count thread'. Useless banter and useless posters. Period.

I think both of you summed it up very well for me. Most of us were innocent bystanders (except when I had to open a can of internet whoop-a$$ on Forrest Gump) who joined SOS for personal reasons. But the fraud exposure threatened to take away the appeal SOS had over "corporate OSO". When SOS didn't excise the fraud, there was no reason to choose the small SOS over OSO.

I feel I could still visit SOS without fear or reprisal or having to choose sides, but why bother? It didn't grow the size needed to rival the potency of influence of OSO. At the same time, coming back to OSO it's obvious they cleaned up the internet speed issues and other matters that originally sparked the foundation of SOS.

Most everyone that was enjoyable to read and interact with at SOS have come back to OSO. So what is the real reason for SOS, besides apparently serving as a shell of what it once was AND an echo chamber for the clinically schizophrenic.

it served a huge purpose, to weed out another liar and scammer and thief that was trying to take lots of people for small amounts under the guise of an "offshore expert"

I hope Chris Sunkin chokes on a turkey bone. :drink:

Leg or breast?? :grinser010:

Lol!

How about a FOOT bone! :)

The love story of "bajabob" and "hotrodchas" is closed (yeah!!!)........so back to the guy that is getting a BIG lump of oily dirty stinky coal in his Christmas stocking this year. Con Man Chris Sunkin :D

I have never been back over there. The story of taking the kids dirt bike did me in.

I'm done with it. That's crazy that Sunkin lied about owning all those boats and bilked a children's charity.:angry-smiley-038:

Thanks to the good people who had the courage to post his actions! Sunkin got caught at it and called on it! That snake crawled in a hole in the back of a warehouse. And that's that.....

Oh he will pop up somewhere sometime and I still don't believe he is outa SOS, not that that means anything at all.

Wow if he is still there that makes what 7 members.

eight if you count Bobcats alter ego Enabler :)

I believed the guy, his stories seemed credible and were very well written. I don't boat in Ohio so whether or not he had a barn full of boats was unverifiable to me......

But when it got posted he had over a dozen high end boats despite living in a very modest home and was the dirt bike expert posting pictures of his bikes on the site (pics that were scavenged from other sites), the "treble damage" lawsuits that others found to be minor suits that he actually lost.....the wheels came off real quick. The eye opener was the kid's charity and the lost/bounced check, once that was exposed the whole thing crumbled.

I wish I had the time to put together a Powerpoint presentation showing all of Sunkin's posts. God the guy came off like the expert of all legal issues. Clarence Darrow Sunkin. Sadly, I think some of his advice was sound. That advice loses ALL of it's credibility once you know where and who it came from.

The bounced check was an oversight? The overdraft notices were never retrieved from a "seldom used" post office box? Anyone who actually still believes this guy is a complete fool. (I believed his rants initially) Including the tough guy blowhard from New Jersey who also garnered respect here for unknown reasons. Oooh the New Jersey boys...I'm so afraid.

I think Tex wins the CSI OSO prize..he called Sunkin out way before this poop hit the fan!

I read weird news through Fark.com and I stumbled upon an article in a newspaper in his neck of the woods and he was heavily posting on that newspaper site... replying to most of the articles.

wouldn't it be great fun to get on there and F with him?:angry-smiley-038::eek:

The guy's modus operendi never changed.

While 20 volunteers were putting their best efforts into making his site work he was off doing his usual scam efforts on the internet.
Go to site 460ford.com and see his typical act.

Start off with Newbie questions and within 18 posts he's trying to sell parts to suckers. POOF ...he goes missing.

Same as the knife site, same as the motorcycle parts site.

Small time scammer, nothing more.

Must take some real pride to hang with a guy like that. Is there anyone left, other than the few that don't care, that doesn't think he's just a con?

BTW, anyone ever see any change over there in regards to ownership, servers, the new head that isn't?

I take it you have been keeping an eye on him.
Glad someone is, I don't have time myself, been home a total of 14 days on and off from the 1st week in August.
Flying today from Houston(could be great fun with the weather) then off to W. Va.:eek:
Keep up the good work my friend:drink:

Actually I'm not. Others are though.

Ancient history for me. Cant fix what he did. Just made sure he got what he deserved.

Thanks for the non-information! :D I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out WTF you were talking about.....but I found it. Using "csunkin" as a username. That Google is an incredible tool!


Start at this thread and then look at his subsequent posts as time goes on. Look like a familiar pattern?? :D :drink:

http://www.460ford.com/forum/showthread.php?t=131228

Yay, some entertaining reading for a slow day. :) NEVER FORGET! He lied, he bilked, he fractured this site for awhile. :angry-smiley-038:

That's govt. work for you! :D

a lot of post gone here too

I bet 2010 is a year he'd like to forget.

2011 and Sunkin is just an ugly memory! LOL!