this is so sad it makes me want to cry, seriously. fvcking terrible. this isn't even funny or about feminism or about any agenda anyone has, no one should stoop to levels like this for anything and if there is a hell there is a very special place in it for this woman.
I must give you some background on what is going on. I am a member of another forum, i would not be shocked if someone here is a member of it too it's pretty popular, a college football recruiting forum that really has turned into a giant MISC forum that occisoiusly talks about football lol, we call it the mainboard. anyway, about what, 6 months ago, this guy gets on the mainboard and gives us this story about this girl who is dying of cancer and she had one last dying wish to go to Disneyland. There are thousands of members of this forum and we all pitched in and raised 11k. i donated about 100 bucks myself. I mean how can you not? we setup a suprise birthday party with her and had snow white and others come to be at her birthday party, it was really a touching thing, seriously. we really did or attempted to do something good.
just read this ****. i am going to copy the update from the guy who organized this
This has been brewing for a while and it's finally time to put it out there for the public to read and become informed.
Donors, members, and anyone that has kept up with her cause, the fundraiser for Kylie we did back in early March has gone awry. So awry that is can be classified as a lost cause for me, Emma, and rv12 et al. The frustrating truth is that we are pulling the plug. I will further explain the situation below, but know now that we still have the money. We have not given it to Nikki and her idiocy.
The following notes are summarized events in sequential order:
On March 6th, The Cuonz brings Kylie to our attention. She's dying of cancer and wants to go to Disney before she dies. The fundraising begins.
A couple days after we started, we got an email Bob Lewis, CEO of Make a Wish of East TN. He asks who we are and why we're raising money for Kylie; he then informs us that they sent Kylie to Disney back in October. Here is the first red flag.
Someone reached out to Kylie's mom or a friend of the mom and we were told that she did indeed go to Disney but, in fact, wanted to go again. As it was put to us "When she was told she was terminal, she said she was ok with it and knew she was going to see Jesus soon but just wanted to go see the princesses one more time." At this point, we were all sucked in and captivated. We did not think twice.
While raising the money, it came to my attention that Kylie was in a picture with UT cheerleaders. Naturally, I reached out to the UT athletic department, thinking they would let her be a cheerleader for a day. Within 30 minutes of the email they were calling my phone offering to have cheerleaders drive the 1.5 hours to where Kylie lives, bring her back to Knoxville for their NIT game, and let her be a cheerleader for a day on the sidelines. We didn't have Nikki's information at this point so we reached out to her friend that had been in contact with us. Through her, Nikki declined, stating she’s not a UT fan.
After raising the money, we sat back and waited to hear from Nikki. We wanted a simple ‘thank you’ and wanted to start the process of planning the trip. We let her know that we're ready to pay for it as soon as she sets the trip. We waited.
And waited.
And waited.
We never got a single call from Nikki this entire time. I stress not one; not one thank you or email. This struck us all as another major red flag as it is really odd for someone to raise $11k for a kid and the mother not even acknowledge it.
3 weeks after we raised the $11k, on 3/31, they held another fundraiser to "Send Kylie to Disney." We hired a couple girls to be Cinderella and Snow White with rv12 attending. While there, they did not once mention to anyone there that random internet strangers had raised enough to cover the trip. Instead, they continued to ask for more donations for a Disney trip. They raised $8500 at this event only with the money going straight to Nikki.
Another 6 weeks pass with no word from Nikki. During this time we're told she's remodeling her bf's house with new floors. This was confirmed by her via her Facebook status.
Finally, this past Sunday (Mother's Day), Nikki reached out to me, again through a friend. She had her friend call me and ask if I'd send her $2-3k. I declined her motion, stating that Nikki could call me if she'd like to discuss it. I got a text from Nikki about 30 minutes later. I told her to set up the trip and I'd call/pay for it. She balked and wanted the cash sent to her with no exception.
The fact that she was asking for $2-3k really set us off. It has become very obvious that she is asking for money for other reasons aside from the trip. On top of her request, I found out that a city market donated a hefty sum to her as well. Through research, I called the market owner and explained who I was and how we had been raising money way before his event. He then went on to state that he had $6500 to "Send Kylie to Disney", showing my hunch to be true that Nikki is attempting to fraud us/others.
Nikki never once mentioned that there had been more than enough money, minus our portion, for the trip. The owner had also told me that 2 customers had offered Nikki free rooms for their entire family and free Disney tickets; again, Nikki did not follow up on it, presumably because it was not straight-up cash.
I also talked to Kylie's grandma on her dad's side on Tuesday night. Super sweet lady might I mention. Not going into great detail about our conversation, but I'll say that she agreed that we should be hesitant about giving Nikki cash. She brings up the idea of her and Kylie's dad taking Kylie to Disney.
I get a call from Nikki's boyfriend today. He cusses me up and down and tells me that I'd better send Nikki "her" money or they'd send their attorney after me. Might I mention he's still married? A few minutes later, I get a call from Nikki. Conversation basically went like this:
Her: Send me my money.
Me: Not your money.
Her: It was raised for me!
Me: No, it was raised to send Kylie to Disney. Call and set up the trip and I'll pay for it.
Her: No, send me the cash!
Me: I have to get back to work.
Her: I'm calling my attorney!
Me: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Following that exchange I get a bunch of threatening emails. Her attorney is going to call me; she's calling the District Attorney in FL. Typical stuff. She says she wants her boyfriend and his kids to make the trip, too. I laughed at this notion.
I was kind and cordial the entire time, offering to pay for the Disney trip if she'll call and set it up. She refuses. She is only concerned with us sending her $11k in cash. Anything other than that won't work. Not concerned with actually taking her daughter to Disney, just worried about getting cash in her pocket.
This afternoon, I talked to Kylie's dad. I told him I'd love nothing more than for him and his mom to take Kylie to Disney on our dime. He'd love to do it but he's in a tough spot. Nikki would make his life hell if he did that. I really don't know why, though. The money was raised for Kylie, not Nikki. If Kylie goes to Disney, shouldn't that be enough for her? Why is it about Nikki? Either way, it's doubtful that the dad is going to take her.
Rivals, it seems like Nikki burned through the other donations and now wants our money. I can't think of another explanation why she'd be hitting us up for $2-3k. I can't prove it but there's too many red flags for me to overlook and just hand over y'alls cash while looking the other way. I just can't do it. Y'all trusted me with that money and I'm going to do what I think is best.
So, now you're all caught up. Really ****ty situation. We all had big hearts, raised a ton of cash for a little girl that none of us know, and instead of getting a thank you, we're getting threatened with legal charges bc we won't hand it over in cash. We can't get a thank you but we can get threats for not handing it over in cash. The entire situation makes me hate people.
I wanted to update everyone to what was going on. If I had to guess, we'll probably end up just refunding everyone's money. I'm going to hold out for a little bit and see if something prevents itself that works for everyone, but if it doesn't, we'll just go through and refund all 300 or whatever donations. That's going to suck, will take forever, and will penalize Kylie, but I don't know what else to do. Feel free to make suggestions.
CLIFFS:
- We raise money for Kylie
- Mom raises $15k AFTER we raise our money
- Mom makes no effort to make plans
- Mom only wants our money in cash
- Mom gets yaofaced
I mean, what the ****? how anyone has it in them to take advange of their sick daughter like that is beyond me. how any guy would date a woman with this low of morals is beyond me.
