I forbindelse med deltagelsen af Corsica Raid sidste år, viser jeg kopi af den mail, som jeg sendte til SleepMonsters i starten af dette år.
I would like to tell about the hangovers from Corsica Raid in May 2009.
This story is intended to those who spend a lot of time and effort, like myself, to raise the money needed to be able to forefill there passion and dreams in AR.
I need to tell this, even though this is not my normal way to solve this kind of issues.
But at this point I fell me obligated to warn others about the way the Corsica Raid org. handles cases, when it comes to economic issues.
In short; after the "race" in 2009, we and other teams, made a deal with Corsica Raid, that they would collect and return the satellite phones rented at E-Sat in Paris.
Each phone represents a value of a deposit for some 850 euro. Later that evening all the sat-phones where stolen. This came to my knowledge one month later, where the Corsica Raid org. gave me this message:
"Hi Thomas
Don't worry with the sat phone. It's our problem...not yours.
All the phones was stolen during the last evening. We are in discuss with
esat to pay.
Thanks"
The next couple of weeks, I was feeling like a ping-pong ball, writing forth and back with Corsica Raid and E-Sat.
At some point in August, the Corsica Raid stopped answering my mails.
Instead I received mails with promotion for the race this year. Very frustrating!!!
E-Sat in Paris has been very helpful. They have also spend a lot of time to get in touch with Corsica Raid and they have expressed it like this:
"Unfortunately I think not only Corsica raid has no money but also the guy is deeply dishonest !
I am about to sue him."
At this point E-Sat have promised me to return my deposit.
So, to all you racers, use this in what way you can, planning races this year.
Som det fremgår, så kan jeg personligt ikke anbefale hold at deltage i Corsica Raid,
da deres løbsplanlægning helt klart virker som den "lette" måde at tjene penge.
Skulle I alligevel være interesseret, er I altid velkommen til at kontakte mig for at undgå de værste faldgruber!