Re: [AGA-mcm] Forwarded attachment...

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

I'd think there is LESS reason to give this guy time.  All of the others
have been staunch supporters of AGA in one way or another for years.  And
again, it seems totally unfair to our paying vendors.

I'd have no problem with us introducing the foreign visitors to everyone
publicly, as a group, and suggesting that members seek them out and make
them feel comfortable.  I'm not really even comfortable with announcing that
they are peddling.  That, they should handle by themselves if they haven't
rented either vendor's space or taken an ad... Actually, maybe that's the
tack to take with him.  Sugest that if he has something he wants to promote,
it's still not too late to arrange vendor's space or put an as in the
program. (as long as he can get it done REALLY fast) that way, he could say
in the program to speak to him during the convention for more information.

Karen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:50 PM
Subject: RE: [AGA-mcm] Forwarded attachment...


> Rick and Ghazanfar will, of course, have the last word on this, but MY
> opinion is... NO.  If we did this, why would we not also provide equal
> time for Peter Bradley to push Practical Fishkeeping, Claus to push
> Tropica, or Oliver to push his own personal website or whatever he wanted?
>
> I would say that WE might want to mention in the opening remarks that we
> have several folks visiting from foreign countries and introduce them one
> by one like we've done in the past, maybe even mention if they're peddling
> something, but that's it.
>
>    - Erik
>
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Jay Luto wrote:
>
> > It looks like he used official letterhead from his sponsor. I guess it
looks
> > more "professional".
> >
> > At the beginning stages his only interest was to "see" people and learn
from
> > other aquatic-plant hobbyists. At least that's what he told me in first
few
> > emails. Bartek Lipczynski told me on the phone that Marian's other
interest
> > could be to "push" his product to AGA audience. As you all know his
lifetime
> > project is "How To plant..." video and I'm assuming that's why he wants
that
> > 15 minutes.
> >
> > I agreed to bring him from airport on Thursday and help him with hotel
paper
> > work. After that, my mission is DONE. I believe his plane back home is
on
> > Monday and it means that he is finding his own way back to the airport
(I'm
> > leaving on Sunday). I don't want to be part of his "commercial
propaganda"
> > and personally I'm disappointed that he didn't say a word to me about it
> > before. How is he going to present himself in front of 150 people and
> > produce beneficial material if he can't even write a simple email in
> > English? I hope he doesn't think that I'm going to be his official
on-stuff
> > translator.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jay Luto
> > www.greenstouch.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: aga-mcm-bounces@thekrib.com [mailto:aga-mcm-bounces@thekrib.com]
On
> > Behalf Of Erik Olson
> > Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 8:23 PM
> > To: aga-mcm@thekrib.com
> > Subject: [AGA-mcm] Forwarded attachment...
> >
> > Ah...knew it'd be coming... Ghazanfar, Rick, this bit is now in YOUR
> > hands! :)
> >
> > (No comment on why someone writes me e-mail as a jpeg).
> >
> >
>
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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