Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: Convention count

[Ghazanfar Ghori <ghorig@gmail.com>]

I was just about to suggest that if the AGA has a relationship with Dave
and wants to help him along, that the AGA board consider subsidizing or paying 
for his table - but after reading these last couple of emails I don't know if
either party would consider it.



On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:25:56 -0800 (PST), Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Dave Gomberg wrote:
> 
> > At 11:50 11/7/2004, you wrote:
> >> you will have to keep it low key and will most likely not be getting any
> >> plugs in the program or in the talks.
> >
> > I did not expect any plugs or a free table, but I did expect that some 
> > effort
> > would be made to be fair to anyone (not just me) who has given a ton to the
> > hobby and received not a lot of support.   Maybe I am just being whinny.
> 
> "not a lot of support"... Hmm, that one unfortunately presses a lot of
> buttons.  Maybe it's me remembering all the HOURS of negotiation and
> attempts to plan to have PAM part of the AGA back in 1999 when you were
> starting it, only to have the deal fall apart because you didn't think you
> could make enough money on it.  Or remembering all the hours negotiating
> with you after PAM went bust in 2001.
> 
> Didn't the AGA basically bail out both you and all the PAM subscribers at
> LIST PRICE (i.e., no special deal), and did they not buy out your entire
> remaining stock at something like $2 per issue, something which, it turned
> out, nearly bankrupted the organization?  We've got a huge stock of these
> that are NEVER going to sell -- we're having to give them away as
> convention favors now.
> 
> Did the AGA not basically give you an effective exclusive on the
> Kasselmann book at the 2002 convention, even promoting to the lists that
> you were selling them, only to have you decide to ship them back home
> after the first night, leaving several angry people?
> 
> I consider you a friend and a great supporter of the hobby in the past,
> but to claim you haven't received a lot of support from the AGA IS, as you
> say, just being whiny.
> 
>   - Erik
> 
> 
> 
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