I recently filled out a Pimp Your Ride application for sponsorship through cardomain, and it says that I have been accepted. Is it a good deal, fake, not worth it? They are talking about so much stuff can be done to the car, performance, looks, etc. What is the verdict? Is Cardomain.com full of crap or is it solid?



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If you have to pay anything, it's not a good deal. Secondly, before ordering, always make sure that JBO companies can't give you a better deal.

Businesses have realized the appeal of the word "sponsorship" and have starting using it as a marketing ploy to gain customers. If you have to pay anything, it's not a sponsorship but a business tactic, and you can likely find those parts as cheap (or cheaper) with JBO companies...

if it has anything to do w/ pmr, id stay far away from it

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What's this have to do with performance?

JuggaloZeke wrote:What's this have to do with performance?

thats what i was thinking. considering pmr never does any performance mods, they just make cars ugly.

alias1429 wrote:

JuggaloZeke wrote:What's this have to do with performance?

thats what i was thinking. considering pmr never does any performance mods, they just make cars ugly.

True, but sell all the LCD screens and you can put a turbo in your car

JuggaloZeke wrote:What's this have to do with performance?

Franz Rew wrote:They are talking about so much stuff can be done to the car, performance, looks, etc.

I'm assuming he wants to know if there were any benefits of this program that are specifically in the performance area...of course if no one here has any experience with this, we could need more specific details in order to be able to provide advice...

I went through Carsponsorships.com. My grandfather used to be a lawyer, so I had him check it out, and its legit!


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uhh no sorry carsponsorships.com is not legit, its not really a sponsorship, more or less a sams club for car parts, your paying for the "privlege" of being able to shop in their "discounted" store. you have to pay for carsponsorships.com sponsorship, if you have to pay, its not a real sponsorship


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From what I understand you don't "have" to pay to shop in Sams Club...they just add 10% to your final tally. Either way they get their money back. Sounds like the same thing for the "sponsorship" deally.

you know what i meant


You'll never touch God's hand
You'll never taste God's breath
Because you'll never see the second coming
Life's too short to be focused on insanity
I've seen the ways of God
I'll take the devil any day
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Real sponsors would contact you not the other way around. You have to have a car worth them wanting to sponsor which usually means you have to already sink some money into it to even get their attention whether it be for show or race. You won't get show sponsors with a stock car (unless you know someone who works at the company) and likewise you aren't going to get sponsored in a 16 second car. So, I would say start hooking up your car and getting out to the shows and racing events, get seen in some magazines, win some trophy's and then the sponsors will come to you to showcase their products in future shows. They have to know your car will attract attention and what better way to show that than by winning car shows or races. Then the next season you can hit the show or race circuit with their new products on your car for free.


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bro sam's doesn't add 10% to your bill ....some stuff is cheaper and some isn't...i grocery shop there all the time....

/\ he's saying you dont have to pay to be a member to get into the store..if you dont have that card they add %10 to the total

Real sponsors do not contact you LOL. You contact them. You send in information about your car and yourself. What shows you go to and how you can help them out. If you sent a picture of your stock cavalier and they told you hell yah you can have a sponsorship from us....what does that tell you. It tells me that the bill for this sponsorship will be coming in the mail soon.
They make their money from signing you up and telling you that you can get all these parts for cheap. Sounds good until you find out how expensive the parts are and how much of a discount they give on them. You could have bought the parts online from anyone for less.
But if you wanna do it go ahead and find out. Do a price comparison and see if it is worth your while to give them 80 bucks to get a 10 dollar discount on a 100 dollar part you could have bought for 70 anywhere.

OK, lets clear up some things, first off, these companies act as agents, who connect you with other companies, second, the discounts are much larger than you think, I can't say how big the discounts are, but lets just say that buying one thing will make the $80 worth it. As for the legitimacy, I had a lawyer check it out before I signed anything, and he said it was legit.


Some times the best way to get that tailgater off your but is to light a fart.

Ive said this many times before and I will say it yet once again....

This is how companies like this work and make money.

You call them, you want to order a part for your car since you are "sponsored" by them....

Say you want a body kit for your car which has a MSRP Price os 1000.00 dollars. The same body kit if you search other people who resell it they offer it for say 800.00 dollars. Now when you call the company will say "Yeah MSRP on this body kit is 1500.00 dollars and since you are sponsored by us, we will give it to you for 1000.00 dollars or 900.00 dollars.

Either way not only do they make money off you, but they also make more money since they pay much less then 800.00 for the kit to begin with. Oh yeah they also make money off the 80.00 dollars which you send in to them.

How do I know all this? Simple, that company Racer X or Sport Compact called me one day asking me pricing for an RKSport Ecotec Intake apperently the guy who wanted to buy the parts was there in person so when the guy from Racer X or Sport Compact asked me for the price I said price was 175.00 for the intake he turned around and said "So the price on the intake is 225.00" as you can see, they mark up the cost pricing by ALOT of money sometimes even more than retail pricing and they discount it from there to make it seem like the guy was getting a heck of a deal.

Trust me if these companies were NOT making BANK they would still not be in business and they would still not be going after new people whos life time goal is to get sponsord by a company.

Its up to you if you want to pay the 80.00 dollars, and hope that you get a good discount, I am just telling you how it is because they used to call me all the time and get prices for people who wanted stuff. They are walking on fine thin ice with the stuff they are doing but since everything looks legit and people are gtting the so called discount no one can go after them.

Like I said its up to you if you want to deal with them or not but I hope this does clear things up for people.

karo is right, it is the same with any business. they are there to make money. you do not make money by giving everyone a "discount". i used to work in an applance stor selling parts. my boss came in one day and told us to jack the prices up 10% when doing the transaction. i thought that was a bit like stealing, so i quit. What he wanted us to do is if the person did not ask us how much the part was then we would take the price and add 10%, a screw you sucker tax for not asking the price.

I've done my research, and the prices are legit. I've gone to the individual manufacturers websites, and seen the price differance between retail, wholesale, and sponsored prices. I can't disclose any prices, as I am under contract right now, but believe me, the differance is huge.


Some times the best way to get that tailgater off your but is to light a fart.

anything you have to pay for is not a sponsorship...you are paying for a service...not a sponsorship

there are 2 kinds of sponsors, quasie and full. quasies give major discounts, full give you free stuff, and once again I will say its worth it, big time. all you have to do is go to at least 3 carshows per year, I work next to Evolution Autosports, and they said that they would help me with shows, as local shows do count, just document the shows through pics or video, or both.


Some times the best way to get that tailgater off your but is to light a fart.

'Fire Starter (Seth) wrote:there are 2 kinds of sponsors, quasie and full. quasies give major discounts, full give you free stuff, and once again I will say its worth it, big time. all you have to do is go to at least 3 carshows per year, I work next to Evolution Autosports, and they said that they would help me with shows, as local shows do count, just document the shows through pics or video, or both.

both quasie and full, you don't pay for if it's a true sponsorship

Fire Starter (Seth) wrote:I've done my research, and the prices are legit. I've gone to the individual manufacturers websites, and seen the price differance between retail, wholesale, and sponsored prices. I can't disclose any prices, as I am under contract right now, but believe me, the differance is huge.

until you disclose prices or show us copies of this "contract," i call on this whole thing. its a scam and a half and i can't believe you fell for it

If the deal doesn't sound good to you, then don't sign the contract. If the contract looks good, then sign it. Just because they're out to make a profit doesn't mean they're scamming anyone. If they said "Hey, give us $100 and we'll let you buy anything in our warehouse for 20% under retail." and then they completely ignore your emails, then it's a scam. If they tell you in the email contract that they will either give you or sell you parts, then they are LEGALLY obligated to do so. There was a bill passed in 98 or so that says any contract made in an email is as legally binding as a contract on paper. Good luck on your decision.