From: Richard Lathrop (lathrrs@snip.net)
Date: Mon Sep 20 2004 - 03:07:27 PDT
Jim,
One of the problems was that none of the vendors were at any of thier sites.
Unless I stood in the middle of the field and announced what I was looking for it, I was not going to find much.
Rick
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From: Jim Gilmore <jgilmore@ptd.net>
Reply-To: MVlist@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:04:05 -0400
>Rick wrote:
>>After arraging with a vendor to pickup some parts at Gilbert and feeling
>>obligated to pick them up I drove and hour and a half to find out the vendor
>>did not stay till 12 like he said he would but rather left about 9am about
>>10 mintues prior to my arrival.
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>>I paid $6 entrance fee for a 10 minute walk through and then left.
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>>In light of vendor performance at previous rain events like Aberdeen and
>>vendor performance can I suggest that instead of event occurs rain or shine
>>that it is advertised to occur shine only?
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> Well,
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> I do feel your pain........but I was there set up for three days. Brought a CCKW load of parts and manuals, set up in the rain, had my canopy destroyed Friday night, many items waterlogged..........but I was still there selling at 5 pm.
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> Just because your vendor did not stay is no reason to bad mouth this show and all outside MV shows in general.
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> I drove over an hour in a 6x6 to bring things there for guys like you to buy, used several days of vacation time up.......and I'm not complaining......or whining........
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> If you were only there 10 minutes you could never have looked at all the vendors or at the vehicles that were on display. Those guys brought jeeps, 6x6's, half track, M-114 APC, command cars, 1 1/2 tons, and some very rare motorcycles to the show just so you (and others) could see them. They braved the rain and a Hurricane and had their vehicles soaked.
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> It's too bad you ran off so quick......you missed Pat Lombardi driving his M-114 Armored Personnel carrier around.....a real sight to see!
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> There were many vendors that stayed Friday and some Saturday......Brent Mullens, Myself, Peter Debella, Darryl Bensinger, Curt Wolf, Tom Weibolt, John Blackwood and many, many others.......
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> Hey, Brent Mullins drove all the way from TEXAS to bring parts for guys like you to buy......and you're complaining about a 1 1/2 hour drive?
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> If your vendor wasn't there don't whine here........complain to him about it.
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>Jim Gilmore
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>Editor, Red Ball Military Transport
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