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

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

Those Folks Erik mentions are not hawking there goods. And
the folsk that are hawking their stuff are paying for the
opportunity to push directly to the concentrated market of
people we have brought together.

I think the letter shows more than a little nerve and lack
of respect. 

If someone wants to sell, he/she/they can buy vendor space,
imo. Erik's suggestion about introducing foreign visitors
sounds very generous -- I'm think Ed Sullivan style
"Tonight we have in our audience, Kirk Douglas. Stand up
and take a bow Mr. Douglas. Also, tonight we have. . . ". 

I absolutely would NOT give them a mike. I would not offer
any time for anyone to sell except as a vendor in the
vendor area.


--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> 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).

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