While I asked the vendor who helped me out if I could make a thread saying how they helped me they asked me not to share their name because they didn't do it for a boost in business they just did it to straight up help me out so I have to respect their wishes. However I will give a broad description and back story because I'm still in shock someone I never met would do something like this to help.
Long story short, I'm a mechanic by trade, I'm 24 years old and busted my ass went to tech school, worked at a Subaru dealership and became a Subaru certified master technician. I left Subaru and went to GM and got a bunch of GM training done and got a few certifications. I have been around cars all of my life and its a huge passion of mine. I did everything on my car, cam, supercharger, rebuilt my tr6060, the list is endless.
Sadly my days of wrenching are pretty much over because I got hurt at work. I basically had a transmission jack fail and a trans out of full size silverado came crashing down and crushed my left forearm. The muscle and tendon damage healed up but I'm left with permanent feeling loss in my left hand from the wrist down. Those of you who are mechanics know how important feeling is when you cant see in a tight spot and have to use your hands as "eyes". I now have a restriction of no more then 10lbs with my left hand for the rest of my life because I cant tell how hard Im gripping on to something.
I got a lawyer involved and im basically waiting on a settlement where the company has to pay for me to go back to school and learn to do something else because I cant continue with my current profession at 100%. Finding work has been super hard because legally I have to list that I have a permanent disability due to my hand and I cant collect unemployment because technicially I "can" work but no one will hire with no experience in a different field and having a 10lb limit severely limits the jobs I can apply for. It sucks..big time...I'm basically working maybe 40 hours a month with a friend doing minor BS just so I can pay my car payment and rent. I had a bunch of mod money set aside for my 416 stroker build this winter that I had to use to keep my head above water for the time being.
So I pm'd this vendor about some parts and asked what the best price they could do on the parts were just for shits and giggles. They gave me a fantastic deal but sadly I had to tell the vendor it was still to high for me I explained that hopefully once I get my settlement and get back on track I would be able to pick the items up. So a few days go by and I check my email and I see a shipping number from UPS. I click it and see a package was shipped to me from the vendor I was talking to. So I jump on here and send the vendor a PM and asked them if he made a mistake because I knew we were talking about some items and figured they got shipped to me on accident. The vendor replys that it was a early x-mas present for someone going through a hard time...WOW my jaw hit the floor.
Now im not talking about like a 100 dollar item. The things I was Pm'ing him about were upwards of 1200+ bucks new. I'm still pretty much in shock as thats like one of the nicest things anyone has done for me in a very long time. I wish I could say the vendors name but I promised I wouldnt. If they wanna post here and take credit thats up to them. All in all Im surprised people like this still exist today, they are few and far between. Also if the vendor reads this THANK YOU once again.
