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I am an active member of the disc golf forums at dgcoursereview.com the best disc golf forum site around! Two years ago in my search for a specific disc (weight, color, plastic) I found a member who had one in his "disc organizer" but it was not listed for sale. I privet messaged him explaining my long failed search for this disc and asked if he would possibly sell it to me.
I received a reply from him stating "Shoot me your address and I'll send it to you". I replied with "How much do would you like for it?" I was told he wanted no money or trades he just wanted to "pay it forward". I was so stoked and grateful! I felt that I should do the same!
I then came up with the idea of starting a "Pay It Forward" Thread on the forums. The thread took off! with in the first 48 hours of its launch it overloaded the websites server and crashed is several times. The administrator of the site had to upgrade the server because of the amount of disc golfers willing to "Pay It Forward".
To date this has snow balled into the longest and most popular thread on this massive disc golf forum. It has been running without a brake in the chain for 2 years. The great disc golfers on this site have "Payed It Forward" thousands of times. Meaning thousands of discs have made it into the hands of people who will enjoy them!
With all this being said I will not be keeping the prize if I win it. I would like to ask DGA to hold it and send it to the winner of a raffle. Where all the proceeds go to dgcoursereview.com so that they can keep this great site growing that educates disc golfers on every aspect of the game.
Below is a copy of my first post starting this thread!
First the back story,
A few days ago I was browsing the Disc organizer area for a disc I have been in search for. I found one. Contacted the owner (who shall remain nameless unless they would like to chime in and take credit for popping the idea in my head) I was told they were not Sure if they still had it. A couple days later I was contacted saying that they had been busy and the disc is still in their position. They wanted to send it to me free because they wanted to PAY IT FORWARD. They only requested that I do the same. I said sweet and gave my info.
Now this got me thinking. How should I pay if forward? I got the Idea that this would be great to do as a community. So my thought is I would start a thread and put up a disc I have to pay it forward.
How it works,
You are looking for the last disc posted in this thread. If you like the disc all you have to do is be the first person to call dibs on it. After someone has called dibs on said disc the one who posted will contact you via PM to get your shipping info. All we ask of you as the receiver of the free disc is to Pay It Forward and post one of your discs for someone else to call dibs on. And so one and so forth.
This is a great way to pay it forward. Along with an easy way to get a disc you would like to try out. It’s also a good way to get that disc you have that didn’t make your bag into the hands of someone who will enjoy it.
Ok so here are the guidelines;
1) This is open to everyone
2) One disc at a time
3) Be fair don't post a dog chew toy up for dibs
4) You MUST reply with the word “Dibs” if you want it.
5) Giver pays shipping
6) No insider trading (i.e. don't pm your buddy’s and say heads up I'm posting ____ so grab it.)
7) When you have a disc posted for someone to call dibs on it is your responsibility to watch the thread and PM the first to call dibs
8) ONLY call dibs in the thread no calling dibs via PM's
9) Post your disc that’s up for dibs as you would in the marketplace (Pic, Plastic type, weight, sleepy scale)
Have fun with it guys and let’s see how long this can keep going for!!!
I received a reply from him stating "Shoot me your address and I'll send it to you". I replied with "How much do would you like for it?" I was told he wanted no money or trades he just wanted to "pay it forward". I was so stoked and grateful! I felt that I should do the same!
I then came up with the idea of starting a "Pay It Forward" Thread on the forums. The thread took off! with in the first 48 hours of its launch it overloaded the websites server and crashed is several times. The administrator of the site had to upgrade the server because of the amount of disc golfers willing to "Pay It Forward".
To date this has snow balled into the longest and most popular thread on this massive disc golf forum. It has been running without a brake in the chain for 2 years. The great disc golfers on this site have "Payed It Forward" thousands of times. Meaning thousands of discs have made it into the hands of people who will enjoy them!
With all this being said I will not be keeping the prize if I win it. I would like to ask DGA to hold it and send it to the winner of a raffle. Where all the proceeds go to dgcoursereview.com so that they can keep this great site growing that educates disc golfers on every aspect of the game.
Below is a copy of my first post starting this thread!
First the back story,
A few days ago I was browsing the Disc organizer area for a disc I have been in search for. I found one. Contacted the owner (who shall remain nameless unless they would like to chime in and take credit for popping the idea in my head) I was told they were not Sure if they still had it. A couple days later I was contacted saying that they had been busy and the disc is still in their position. They wanted to send it to me free because they wanted to PAY IT FORWARD. They only requested that I do the same. I said sweet and gave my info.
Now this got me thinking. How should I pay if forward? I got the Idea that this would be great to do as a community. So my thought is I would start a thread and put up a disc I have to pay it forward.
How it works,
You are looking for the last disc posted in this thread. If you like the disc all you have to do is be the first person to call dibs on it. After someone has called dibs on said disc the one who posted will contact you via PM to get your shipping info. All we ask of you as the receiver of the free disc is to Pay It Forward and post one of your discs for someone else to call dibs on. And so one and so forth.
This is a great way to pay it forward. Along with an easy way to get a disc you would like to try out. It’s also a good way to get that disc you have that didn’t make your bag into the hands of someone who will enjoy it.
Ok so here are the guidelines;
1) This is open to everyone
2) One disc at a time
3) Be fair don't post a dog chew toy up for dibs
4) You MUST reply with the word “Dibs” if you want it.
5) Giver pays shipping
6) No insider trading (i.e. don't pm your buddy’s and say heads up I'm posting ____ so grab it.)
7) When you have a disc posted for someone to call dibs on it is your responsibility to watch the thread and PM the first to call dibs
8) ONLY call dibs in the thread no calling dibs via PM's
9) Post your disc that’s up for dibs as you would in the marketplace (Pic, Plastic type, weight, sleepy scale)
Have fun with it guys and let’s see how long this can keep going for!!!
