My 17 Year Old Daughter's Car Broke Down

Greetings James,

You missed the mark again.

My daughter, like most teenagers, expect their parents to hand over the dough. NOT ME! I do not believe you should give your children money. If you want it you must put forth some effort to earn it. Period!

For years I've been preaching to my children that when you have a financial situation staring you the face there are ways to overcome them by using the Internet. They never believed until today.

This situation was perfect for her to see how the Internet helped her generate money quickly to help her out of a bind. Ironically, she is majoring in business management.

For those of you that stepped up, your donation did more than help pay, it taught my daughter a valuable lesson. Now she is a believer in Internet commerce.

From the bottom of my heart I commend you for your generousity. If you haven't received your copy of my home study course keep watching your emails.

Woody Quiñones

[Ankesh]

Originally Posted by ImpactYourArea.com

My daughter, like most teenagers, expect their parents to hand over the dough. NOT ME! I do not believe you should give your children money. If you want it you must put forth some effort to earn it. Period!

Thanks for adding "Period!" at the end of your paragraph. Unfortunately - you went against your beliefs and gave money to your daughter when she did no work.

As Jason posted - it would have been a better idea if you would have given Her a copy of your home study course and guide her make money using that idea.

You could have even documented the idea and what your daughter does and used it as a case study to sell more copies of your course in the future.

There are no downsides with that idea and a valuable lesson for your daughter.

Instead, by discounting - you potentially made a few people who paid more for your product angry / dis-satisfied and got people questioning your intent on 2 business forums that you frequent. Very relevant downsides imo.

Sounds like Wheeler Dealer. A British TV show where the guy buys a car at auction and then has His Mechanic Guy schmick it up. Then he sells it, always at a Profit.

When people Ask if he's done anything to it, he tells them Everything he's done to it - everything his guy did to it.

Hmmm. There used to be a guy who frequented this forum. Had some kind of Buy/Sell Cars course. George something. Gordon would remember, I think.

Michael Ross

He didn't miss the mark at all. You say that you don't believe that you should give your children money, but that's exactly what you did. I don't know how you wrote that sentence with a straight face. She put no effort in to earn it, so there was no "lesson learned".

Why not give her your course and really have her put the effort in to earn it?

Originally Posted by ImpactYourArea.com

Greetings James,

You missed the mark again.

My daughter, like most teenagers, expect their parents to hand over the dough. NOT ME! I do not believe you should give your children money. If you want it you must put forth some effort to earn it. Period!

For years I've been preaching to my children that when you have a financial situation staring you the face there are ways to overcome them by using the Internet. They never believed until today.

This situation was perfect for her to see how the Internet helped her generate money quickly to help her out of a bind. Ironically, she is majoring in business management.

For those of you that stepped up, your donation did more than help pay, it taught my daughter a valuable lesson. Now she is a believer in Internet commerce.

From the bottom of my heart I commend you for your generousity. If you haven't received your copy of my home study course keep watching your emails.

Woody Quiñones

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[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by MichaelRoss

Hmmm. There used to be a guy who frequented this forum. Had some kind of Buy/Sell Cars course. George something. Gordon would remember, I think.

Michael Ross

George Dean at www.cardollars.com EXCELLENT work for the wheeler dealer in cars.


Thanks for remembering MIchael.

GJA

Greetings Bill and Ankesh,

Both of you have suggested this:

Why not give her your course and really have her put the effort in to earn it?

We did discuss this and other options. But she carries a full class load and works part time and has no more hours in the day to do anything else. So she's between a rock and a hard place.

So do I become the hard nosed father that says, "Well you're going to have to figure this out on your own" or do I use the opportunity to show her how to sell products on the Internet to help out in time of need? I choose the latter.

Now I realize many think and have voiced that she has not learned a lesson. On the contrary, she now sees the Internet as a place to buy and sell her stuff. Prior to this she wouldn't even consider the Internet as an option.

I'm glad that I had something that I could use right away to help her out. Which brings me to another point that most of you missed out on. I've received some very nice emails from other parents who have been in the same situation with their children.

Most commented how they never considered using their own products to help out anyone who truly needs assistance.

Instead, by discounting - you potentially made a few people who paid more for your product angry / dis-satisfied and got people questioning your intent on 2 business forums that you frequent.

Now let's address this belief. New products come on the market every day at a set price. But like millions upon millions upon millions of products of the past they never stay at the opening price.

Very few actually go up in price due to their popularity or rareity, but the majority go down in price over time and eventually disappear off the market. The public domain is filled with writings that were at one time sold for a profit, but now are home to anyone for free.

The average consumer knows this about products and waits until a product's price comes down before they consider buying it. If you don't believe me ask your mothers, fathers and grandparents. I know of two individuals that wanted my course last year but did not buy. Both of them donated yesterday.

All of you know this, so don't let your greed glands kling to the notion that a product must stay at the same price forever. It's not realistic.

Also if this situation hadn't happened I would have never considered using my course to help anyone in a financial bind, let alone my daughter. The lesson I learned is sell your products for a profit, but more importantly don't let my zeal to make a profit cloud my judgement when someone needs help.

I do challenge everyone of you reading this, that when someone you know needs financial assistance show them how to buy and sell over the Internet. Even if it means you use your own product to teach them.

Woody Quiñones
ImpactYourArea.com
PS. We are still accepting donations. Just go to Paypal and send the $20 to [email protected] and mark it as "Donation For Car Repair". Later in the day my home study course will be emailed to you in a pdf. formatted file.