In my quest for ultimate van heater knowledge (a subject in which ive
really done my research) my father and I actually visited Mr.  Mirvis to
talk about heaters at his home in NJ in the winter of 2002, after he was
booted off this list.  I can tell you this, Mr. Mirvis is a nutjob and we
did not feel safe in his presence.  Mr Mirvis expressed his bigotry
without hesitation declaring the superiority of all things german.  He got
very upset at my father and I something as simple as parking on wrong side
of his driveway.  He raised his voice at us several times for no good
reason.  He offered to sell me a gasoline heater and the price was'nt too
bad (~500 refurbished by him) but I declined only because I could not do
business with this guy.  As a person and as a vendor I recommend all of
you to stay away from this guy.

Andrew Fox

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, The Bus Depot wrote:

> > the End all is Ark Mirvis "The Heaterman" in NJ, he's a
> > german technician who specializes in VW gas heaters, and has
> > a great new digital timer unit that is fairly well priced
> > (imo) http://members.aol.com/ARKMIRVIS/heaterman.html
>
>
>
> FWIW, Mr. Mirvis was booted off of the Vanagon list a few years ago by the
> moderator at that time, after posting a very unabashed pro-Nazi diatribe to
> the list.  He enthusiastically applauded Adolph Hitler, expressing remorse
> that Germany is once again infested with "foreigners who shit and piss in
> the streets."  It went on from there. I won't dignify it by quoting it
> directly, but if you feel compelled to read it, it's in the archives at
> <http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind9904D&L=vanagon&P=R24407> .
>
> After some of the off-topic rants here recently, I hesitated to mention
> this, but I think this crosses the line. Especially since Mirvis himself
> himself made it an issue by posting it to this list. It is a personal
> decision as to whether a person's views, no matter how bigoted they may be,
> affect your willingness to interact with that person or patronize his
> business. I hope that people will make up their own minds privately without
> feeling the need to turn this into another off-topic thread. But as someone
> who feels strongly about the issue of bigotry (see
> http://busdepot.com/help.jsp#DONATIONS), I felt compelled to briefly mention
> this. Jim, I deeply apologize if you feel that this post is inappropriate.
>
> - Ron Salmon
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