The YAN-3 Fund.

[ak-]

Kept secret? This is the first anyone has heard of it.

Doubt it. It's been 3 years. I'm sure YAN was a little puzzled after not receiving funds or would of at least posted a thank-you thread of some sort if funds were received.
I'm also sure that the ones who are comfortable enough to donate more than $20 sent a message or two to Josh asking what's up.
From Yan's experience on not filing a lawsuit against Vlad for what he did to his car and just "letting it go" to be at peace, it isn't in him to start a thread saying "I never got my $2k+ donation". So yeah - I also believe it was kept secret, if that's the right word to call it, from the community.

[MR 325]

Unbelievable. I have no words.

[Nesset]

If I were the one that made the thread, and was doing the funding and something like this happened. I would have posted about it immediately with some logs on PayPal just to steer clear of being scrutinized. Seems sketchy.

[nando]

Doubt it. It's been 3 years. I'm sure YAN was a little puzzled after not receiving funds or would of at least posted a thank-you thread of some sort if funds were received.
I'm also sure that the ones who are comfortable enough to donate more than $20 sent a message or two to Josh asking what's up.
From Yan's experience on not filing a lawsuit against Vlad for what he did to his car and just "letting it go" to be at peace, it isn't in him to start a thread saying "I never got my $2k+ donation". So yeah - I also believe it was kept secret, if that's the right word to call it, from the community.

well, if you mean kept secret by Josh, you're absolutely right. none of us knew about it before. up until yesterday, I had absolutely zero involvement in this thread.

[JasonC]

well, if you mean kept secret by Josh, you're absolutely right. none of us knew about it before. up until yesterday, I had absolutely zero involvement in this thread.

Just quoting cause it's pretty much what I was going to say too.

[Massimo]

Might as well add my 2 cents.

I work in an IT support center you all would be blown away but what people do sometimes weather by mistake, unknowing, or simple stupidity.

Its not that far fetched to not realize money is being taken out of your account. I myself have 3 email addresses one of which my paypal goes to which I would be lucky to check once a month, not to mention I never log into paypal to check my funds I only log in to make a payment which shows nothing about current balance.

I would like to know the email address that the paypal account was changed to. The internet can provide some very amazing results with just some simple details.

Even if the account is closed Paypal would still hold the record and I am sure Josh could request to have it restored or the information delivered to him if need be.



Oh and WTF like this was 3 years ago it seems like it only happened yesterday.

[nando]

the original email is right on the first post. eurospeed88@gmail.com

he said he closed it, not changed it?

[nando]

also

This isn't a final number, because I will keep accepting donations for as long as people want to submit them, but as of January 1st, 2012, the total amount donated so far is...

$1823.61

Absolutely incredible.

The amount has not yet been transferred to Yan, but even after it does, I will continue to accept donations for as long as people want to keep donating.

[getouth]

3 years flew by and this just put mankind another notch down on my belt....

[Mr. Burns]

I have an auto payment through my paypal that donates a $10/month to R3vlimited in support/maintenance of the site...who does this money go to???

I was just on Paypal and history dates back (for me anyway) to 2001.
I donated $40USD to the YAN fund when this transpired.

Nothing short of the ordinary, but an unnamed ex mod got some fancy new wheels and toys throughout that time.


pretty hypocritical that Josh is fairly vocal and critical online when there is something that goes awry...yet again keeps this little hidden gem of a secret from the contributing members...

shame on you.

[blunttech]

the original email is right on the first post. eurospeed88@gmail.com

he said he closed it, not changed it?

We have been contributing to this account for years

Sent to:
Heather M Anderson (The recipient of this payment is Verified)Email:
eurospeed88@gmail.comAmount sent:
-$250.00 USDFee amount:
$0.00 USDNet amount:
-$250.00 USD
Date:
Dec 26, 2012

[Javier h]

Seriously?

Kept secret? This is the first anyone has heard of it..

Come on guys, at least two people knew at a minimum any way you look at it: Josh and Yan.

And neither one of them said a word?

I suspect the person that bumped this 3 year old thread was also aware of what happened. Regardless, I am sure Josh told someone else and Yan must have commented on the funds. Why would Yan censor what happen if someone asked him? This is why I said it was kept a secret.

It's not worth discussing or debating at this point since its all speculation and rather disgraceful but again one or the other should have said something since it wasn't truly their money to begin with. It just seems the right thing to do with the donors.

[dsphil]

It sucks if this involve foul play or fraud. Those who donated deserve the right to know exactly what had happen to the money donated. At the extreme, this may become a legal matter. Internet fraud is a federal crime I believe. Any hows, its better to see this get resolve sooner than later.

[nando]

Come on guys, at least two people knew at a minimum any way you look at it: Josh and Yan.

And neither one of them said a word?

I suspect the person that started this 3 year old thread was also aware of what happened. Regardless, I am sure Josh told someone else and Yan must have commented on the funds. Why would Yan censor what happen if someone asked him? This is why I said it was kept a secret.

It's not worth discussing or debating at this point since its all speculation and rather disgraceful but again one or the other should have said something since it wasn't truly their money to begin with. It just seems the right thing to do with the donors.

Apparently, yes, neither of them said anything.

Josh is the original poster of this thread. Nobody other than Josh knew what happened to the money as far as any of us know. I doubt even Yan knew, except that he never saw any of it.

[James Crivellone]

I have an auto payment through my paypal that donates a $10/month to R3vlimited in support/maintenance of the site...who does this money go to???

I was just on Paypal and history dates back (for me anyway) to 2001.
I donated $40USD to the YAN fund when this transpired.

Nothing short of the ordinary, but an unnamed ex mod got some fancy new wheels and toys throughout that time.


pretty hypocritical that Josh is fairly vocal and critical online when there is something that goes awry...yet again keeps this little hidden gem of a secret from the contributing members...

shame on you.

What address did you have it going to? I just checked the history on my account and I never saw it