SCF Member Confusion About Hip Stamp Part Of Hipecommerce

(If you don't care, just scroll down to the video below, way below.)

It is interesting when folks take fake information out of the air to disagree about information which is certain, factual and legally bounded.

HIPecommerce, headquartered in North Carolina has Mark Rosenberg as CEO and FOUNDER. Mark indicates that HIP was founded in 2015, claiming July. However, the Articles of Organizational Limited Liability were not filed with the state of North Carolina until October 19th. It is a new company here in the USA. Since then it has received several rounds of funding from venture capitol type players. Thus as of now HIPecommerce (including stamps, post cards and comics) has been around seven years and change, nearly about to clock eight years.

Those are the facts. It is also a fact that the Founder and CEO had a prior job working for a different company headquartered outside of the USA. However to say HIP has been around longer than 7 years and change is like trying to claim a Delorean (think Back to the Future) is a Ford because John Delorean, founder of The Delorean Motor Company once worked for Ford Motor Company.











So now members of the SCF need not debate when HIP started. Well, any more than if my 1974 Scout II is a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company product, a product of the International Harvester Company or of VW as it currently owns the Scout nameplate.

This aside is due to the fact a number of SCF members are car folks

Now since I don't expect much comment on this thread I will add a video if for no other reason I and my family have owned, a 1931 B-2 1.5 Ton IHC (graduation from UC Berkeley present), 1959 Travelall (three door), 1962 Travelette (first crew cab 4 door pickup, 1961 first year of issue as 4 door), 1967 Travelall (4 doors now standard since 1961), 1972 Travelette 3/4T 4X4, 1973 Scout II 4x4 and 1974 Scout II 4x4. Most were still running into the 2010s when sold and beyond in to the 2020s with the Scouts. My 1974 left with a new owner on D-Day 6-6-2023.

Just for fun the 1961 Scout was the first small (2-Door) SUV and the 1957 Travelall the first large SUV. While the Jeep and Suburban were similar, only the Scout and Travelall were built on TRUCK frames, not a light weight car chassis.Yes we got the fleet rate at the IHC shops. They also once worked on my 1969 Coupe de Ville with the 472 V8. Boy did that sucker go after they did the tune-up. They explained that they only worked on trucks so they did not always know how parts fit on a car . I was handed the keys and a paper bag. The bag contained what looked to be all of the smog related part that had "just fallen off" my car's engine.

I think this video is better than the official music video for the song International Harvester:


Edited to prove English is my first language.

At one time I owned a 1969 Fleetwood with the 472. It was just two feet shorter than my current 21-foot long F250 Super Duty. The coolest part was the rear footrests. A true tank.

Sorry, it's not that simple. Filing Articles of Organization establishes a legal entity and often bounds certain kinds of legal claims, activities, or financing, but it doesn't define the origin of an entity. Founders commonly conduct a business or promote it as sole proprietors, partnerships, students, or other entities that are not legally formed. Founders also commonly "tack on" the early activities of an acquired entity as part of the complete story of the business, and rarely view the filing date of their Articles as the date certain when the business began. The story of Google begins in a Stanford dorm room, not on the date when it organized as a Delaware corporation.

I favor the sixteen-foot 69 Cougar with the 351, although I've never been able to get the steering wheel rim horn switch to work. The foil membrane design was truly horrible and couldn't have worked for anyone for more than two or three taps.

Nice distractional discussion about OTHER organizations, NOT the organization mentioned in the OP. Here the discussion is solely, one specific entity, HIP eCommerce's founder dated his start as July 2015 only months prior to the 10/19/2015 filing. I would have added the exact day in July claimed by Mark Rosenberg but could not find it. So Founder says he started HIP July 2015 and made it official with a government agency just three months later. He, or his company, does not seem to hold any related directly own patents nor registered trademarks which predate July 2015. If you find something prior to July 2015 regarding HIP share it it would fit as on topic on this thread about HIP. EDIT: Any car stuff fits too. This is a family forum with familky safety involved so I won't post a music video of I can't Drive 55 or Life's Been Good with a Maserati doing 185. Heck I haven't been over 160 MPH, but over 155 (but we won't talk about that).

We all may have cars today but they all are not considered to be Benz cars. Most of the types of cars can be found in songs, not just the IHC products.

Likewise if I am going to discuss how long I have been using the internet, should I track back to when I began using the first practical time-sharing systems as implemented by UC Berkeley and connected me with several other locations throughout the East Bay Area of the San Francisco such that I could send and receive programs make computers in other locations do my bidding and the like. This was both before and after using a local PDP4 at my end location. No HIP had a clear clean start separate from other entities just as the internet as it is now know had a clean and clear start separate from the first practical time-sharing systems I used.

Never did 155 but frequently did 140mph plus in my 1978 Mercedes 450 SEL. The expression "like it is on rails" would be an understatement. My own mini–Cannonball Run was from Springfield MA to Hartford CT in 10 minutes via I-91 on an early Sunday morning. It was an out of body experience in my 1972 340 Challenger (purchased for $500).

Blimey, Rodg just wandered into one of Bruce's songs

I followed that dream
Just like those guys do way up on the screen
Drove my Challenger down Route 9
Through the dead ends and all the bad scenes
The promise was broken
Cashed in a few of my dreams.

etc.

Bruce who?

I ask this with no malice or sarcasm whatsoever, but who cares when Hipstamp started?

Who cares whether HIP has been around since July of 2015 or Oct 2015??

FWIW, before there was HIP, Mark ran Bidstart which he the sild to SG, where it failed.

Old Plymouth Fury with a slightly adjusted 440 cu in (7.2 L) "Magnum" V8 4-bbl was the speed vehicle.

The De Ville hit over 100 without affecting the stereo radio sounds.

Surprisingly the 1972 3/4T crew cab 4x4 turned a eye opening 1/4 mile and a good top speed in 5th. Had a 372 V8 which produced 371+HP. Now in my foolish days, in four wheel low, in 1st gear (a granny gear), down hill on upper Marin Ave, Berkeley CA, I could get out of the truck and steer it while walking along side it. For those who know not a smart thing to do. Oh, Marin? It has a 25% to 30% grade in places with and average of 17% over the distance from Arlington Circle to Grizzly Peak (about .8 of a mile). Look it up, steepest paved road in the San Francisco Bay Area. Had zero issue with going up the street with a load.

However, more impressive is what I have done twice, before the low, low mountain bike gearing, I had a super alpine geared 10 speed and rode up Marin twice. Once to do it and once to prove to witness I could do it. It was faster in places to get off the bike and push it up hill as walking out paced the bike. If you know the history of Mountain Biking, this was before the first production "mountain bikes" (1979) by 7-8 years. Only went down it once with a bike and that was about 3/4 of a trip too much. One does not brag about that any more than one would brag about playing Russian roulette--Death wish required. We did use a "spotter" to follow me I used the '72 and my friend his '41 Ford PU with granny gear. Parents, none at all ever hear about it. We would still be grounded.

Thank your lucky stars you are ignorant of why it became a issue in several threads elsewhere in the SCF.... one seller (a shady character) claims to be selling on HIP for 20 years. Don't use search, not worth the time waste of your life nor the time needed to read the posts. Really

I have fond memories of the 1972 International 3/4 ton 4WD P/U I drove for work in the 70's. 392 engine, 4 speed manual, no A/C. The hardest riding vehicle, besides off-road construction equipment, I have ever driven but it was unstoppable. Plowed in the winter and hauled in the summer without complaint. Rusted easily though. Really tough to find them now.

Back in the summer of 1969 I was working my first paying job and getting my driver's license. A work friend drove me home one night in his 1968 Dodge Monoca 440 four barrell. It was a sweet ride in a car build for handling.

He needed to "get the cobwebs out of it" so he let me get it up to a little over 100 mph on the two and one half mile straight away below town. Then he drove me back the other way peaking out above 140. I was a second shift dispatcher for out local PD. He was an IP sargent. The car was a police intersepter version.

I first topped 100 in my 2007 Porsche Cayman in around 2008 when I was commuting from San Jose to Templeton. Just south of King City, which hosts a CHP station, a well-known speed-trap zone ends when you reach the southern crossing of the Salinas River. You set cruise control at the maximum 65, banged across the bridge, took a gentle left curve and then a dead-straightaway opened up for two miles with a slight downgrade. On that stretch any speed was OK at 10 pm at night when the road was deserted. The only company were clouds of swallows that would burst from a rural overpass as you roared under it. As the lights of San Ardo came into view, you needed to throttle it back. The Cayman had all the performance of a Carrera at 2/3 the price. Good times.