Sandra Vi going for record across America

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Urine idiot2 wrote:

That would be true if the gofundme page had not been created on 8/18- before the record attempt was postponed.

Perhaps you should get your facts straight before posting your distortions. Everyone can see your agenda here.

The GoFundMe page was only publicized yesterday on the Sandra Vi and Phan Sports pages and the first donations also only happened yesterday.

I have an agenda? I seem to be the only one saying I believe this run is legitimate around here.

You got BUSTED!

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Urine idiot2 wrote:

That would be true if the gofundme page had not been created on 8/18- before the record attempt was postponed.

Perhaps you should get your facts straight before posting your distortions. Everyone can see your agenda here.

The GoFundMe page was only publicized yesterday on the Sandra Vi and Phan Sports pages and the first donations also only happened yesterday.

I have an agenda? I seem to be the only one saying I believe this run is legitimate around here.

You are not the only one who thought that Sandra Villines is a legitimate runner.

Unfortunately Trasie Phan is not the marketing professional she claims to be. The whole record production will go nowhere if there where no funds to do it in the first place. Sandra is running ultras just for a couple of years. She is an average ultrarunner with one great win at Badwater this year. Great for her but not a sign of ultrarunning excellence.

Sponsors look into these things. Nobody knows Sandra, she is not even a brand amassador. And now since Mimi Anderson announced her record run, companies would be stupid to put money into a competing runner without a chance of her being better than Mimi. Mimi has a proven record of a lot of long difficult runs over the last 15 years. Sandra not so much.

It's sad that this is over before it even got started.

$90000 ?

Why does it have to be that expensive?

One runner

1 - 2 crew people

1 Van

1 hotel room a night

= $200 per day with food and gas

70 days including the drive back = $14000 plus shoes and a couple of extra expenses it should be well below $20000 (assuming the crew people work for just a hug and the van is your own)

I might be wrong but there is no way that people will support a $1500 per day operation.

Gordon Gekko wrote:

$90000 ?

Why does it have to be that expensive?

One runner

1 - 2 crew people

1 Van

1 hotel room a night

= $200 per day with food and gas

70 days including the drive back = $14000 plus shoes and a couple of extra expenses it should be well below $20000 (assuming the crew people work for just a hug and the van is your own)

I might be wrong but there is no way that people will support a $1500 per day operation.

You don't much about this do you?

Pressley wrote:

You don't much about this do you?

At least I can form a sentence.

Runner 247 wrote:

Sponsors look into these things. Nobody knows Sandra, she is not even a brand amassador. And now since Mimi Anderson announced her record run, companies would be stupid to put money into a competing runner without a chance of her being better than Mimi. Mimi has a proven record of a lot of long difficult runs over the last 15 years. Sandra not so much.

It's sad that this is over before it even got started.

Isn't Mimi getting old, though?

Both Mimi and Sandra have disappointed me now that I see each of them are associating themselves with a charity for their runs. I thought they would be different.

Gordon Gekko wrote:

Pressley wrote:

You don't much about this do you?

At least I can form a sentence.

I'll let you fill in the blanks.

why are you people so obsessed this?

askerofwhy wrote:

why are you people so obsessed this?

No idea, I guess that is the $90000 question.

90 grand for eight weeks? Damn, I'm in the wrong profession. That's a lot of sausage.

I bet Amy, Dave, Rob and Kaihla are getting ideas from this.

They know they can rent the RV, right? They don't have buy a new one fully loaded.

I can't believe that Trasie Phan couldn't get an interview for Sandra at the Ellen Degeneres or Chelsea Handler shows.

Dr. Phil would could be another option too.

If 6000 of those fans chip in $10-20, Sandra could run.

I am trying to help here.

Big Oprah fan wrote:

I can't believe that Trasie Phan couldn't get an interview for Sandra at the Ellen Degeneres or Chelsea Handler shows.

Dr. Phil would could be another option too.

If 6000 of those fans chip in $10-20, Sandra could run.

I am trying to help here.

Ah yes, launching from the Dr. Phil show helped Darren Kavinoky so much with "raising awareness". Maybe he can put in a good word for Ms. Vi.

Trollception wrote:

Big Oprah fan wrote:

I can't believe that Trasie Phan couldn't get an interview for Sandra at the Ellen Degeneres or Chelsea Handler shows.

Dr. Phil would could be another option too.

If 6000 of those fans chip in $10-20, Sandra could run.

I am trying to help here.

Ah yes, launching from the Dr. Phil show helped Darren Kavinoky so much with "raising awareness". Maybe he can put in a good word for Ms. Vi.

Yes, Darren Kavinoky's run was a huge success.

Money is pouring in. Only $88975 to go.

http://imgur.com/a/6oYVv

I just don't see how it is possible to raise so much money from a GoFundMe with less than 2 weeks time before Sandra was scheduled to start her run. The time is just too short.

If it were me, I would go around to businesses saying I would print their name and logo on singlets I would wear running across the country. The biggest sponsor would get naming rights for the run and most amount of space.

It is interesting to learn that it costs about $90,000 to fund a supported run across America. The amount of sponsorship money Rob Young got must have been huge.

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

It is interesting to learn that it costs about $90,000 to fund a supported run across America. The amount of sponsorship money Rob Young got must have been huge.

$90000 is probably a nice budget to have but you can do it for much less.

$20-25000 seems to be a reasonable amount. Anything more is just gravy.

Trasie Phan was trying to go big but obviously she failed bigly.

With a smaller budget people probably would be more inclined to give.

But we will see what happens.

I am also wondering why Sandra Vi is not stepping up and paying her fair share. After all it's her run.

Gordon Gekko wrote:

askerofwhy wrote:

why are you people so obsessed this?

No idea, I guess that is the $90000 question.

How much of that was your money? It's not even that much. If you want to go after scam artists start with Amway and Herbalife.