spike60
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Thall;
I was wondering when you were going to get around to me. I was feeling kind of left out.
You know, when I first started trying to read your posts, I thought that here was a man that was in need of medication as well as a course in remedial english. But as I began to understand your writing "style", your depth of character and witty sense of humour became apparent. I'm not comparing you to Madison and Hamilton writing the Federalist Papers my friend, but I am honestly looking forward to them now. Do you actually talk the way you write? Someday, somewhere, at some dealer thing, maybe Louisville, I'd like to hoist a few beers with you. (ya?)
Concerning the Tony saga, yes you so are right that I've lost my patience with this "dealer". If you will read all of my posts on this issue, you will see that I was trying to give him some advice on how to better handle this situation. I even sent him a long PM in which I tried to offer both advice and encouragement. When he went and started thread number 2 here, I had enough and unloaded on him. Similar to how I unloaded on someone on the hockey rink tonight after he slashed me. You mentioned "monday morning quarterbacking". Well, I'd just like to think that I'm in that minority of people who actually think before they write. You don't need to be a licsened therapist to see that Tony has "issues". I addition to his business problems, he also went on at length in another thread about his personal problems. Tony does seem to like the stage lights, doesn't he?
A little true story here. One of our product lines used to be in a nearby competitor. A couple of the reps for that company stopped in and said that they were looking to make a change, and would we be interested. It is a market leader in it's segment, so we said sure we would love to take advantage of that opportunity. So, they canceled them and signed us up. The other dealer was quite upset. One of the owners even came in our store screaming at us. When local people asked what had happened, they said that they were the victims of a conspiracy. That we screwed them. That we stole the line, as though we broke through the window in the middle of the night and took it out of the store. Some people believed this nonsense. Now what they didn't tell anyone was that they owed this company, (among others), a lot, and I mean a REAL lot of money. That they had given them somewhere around 3 dozen bad checks the previous year and that they had just filed bankruptcy. Now, I don't believe Tony's problem was money. The point of this story is that there is often way more than meets the eye in situations like this. And the people who jumped on Tony's bandwagon without knowing all of the facts are the ones that I refered to as dimwits. It's kind of a lynch mob mentality, and I think they are idiots. Plus, as I said, they kept egging him on, and these two threads are kind of commercial suicide for Tony's business. He is looking at Efco from Tilton Equipment as a saw line. The Tilton family are just absolutely wonderful people, (even if they are Red Sox fans). If they are reading this, I doubt they would want anything to do with him.
My cheap comment, is I think clear in it's meaning, and should only sting those who I am referring to. Cut4fun uses a term "stealerships", and while I will often reflexively take the dealer side, I agree with him, that they are certainly out there. The stories that customers tell us of how they have been screwed at other stores are amazing. And a good dealer need not take offence to such remarks. As, I said it's great for my business to have a couple of them close by. But we do what we do for a living. That's how we pay for food, electricity, the mortgage, etc. We all do something for a living. And for those people who feel compelled to "beat the system" by thinking price, price, price, well they're cheap. What can I say? With some things, I'm cheap. We all are in one way or another.
Well, it's almost 2:00 AM, but it's hard to get to sleep right after a game. But this is enough of this.
Been to Virginia twice, and loved it by the way. Almost as beautiful as up here in the Catskill Mountains. No, we don't kill cats. It's a dutch word for river. The Dutch got thrown out before the French.
So, how about them beers? There is a famous place a couple miles from my house that has 500 different brews if you're ever up this way.
I was wondering when you were going to get around to me. I was feeling kind of left out.
You know, when I first started trying to read your posts, I thought that here was a man that was in need of medication as well as a course in remedial english. But as I began to understand your writing "style", your depth of character and witty sense of humour became apparent. I'm not comparing you to Madison and Hamilton writing the Federalist Papers my friend, but I am honestly looking forward to them now. Do you actually talk the way you write? Someday, somewhere, at some dealer thing, maybe Louisville, I'd like to hoist a few beers with you. (ya?)
Concerning the Tony saga, yes you so are right that I've lost my patience with this "dealer". If you will read all of my posts on this issue, you will see that I was trying to give him some advice on how to better handle this situation. I even sent him a long PM in which I tried to offer both advice and encouragement. When he went and started thread number 2 here, I had enough and unloaded on him. Similar to how I unloaded on someone on the hockey rink tonight after he slashed me. You mentioned "monday morning quarterbacking". Well, I'd just like to think that I'm in that minority of people who actually think before they write. You don't need to be a licsened therapist to see that Tony has "issues". I addition to his business problems, he also went on at length in another thread about his personal problems. Tony does seem to like the stage lights, doesn't he?
A little true story here. One of our product lines used to be in a nearby competitor. A couple of the reps for that company stopped in and said that they were looking to make a change, and would we be interested. It is a market leader in it's segment, so we said sure we would love to take advantage of that opportunity. So, they canceled them and signed us up. The other dealer was quite upset. One of the owners even came in our store screaming at us. When local people asked what had happened, they said that they were the victims of a conspiracy. That we screwed them. That we stole the line, as though we broke through the window in the middle of the night and took it out of the store. Some people believed this nonsense. Now what they didn't tell anyone was that they owed this company, (among others), a lot, and I mean a REAL lot of money. That they had given them somewhere around 3 dozen bad checks the previous year and that they had just filed bankruptcy. Now, I don't believe Tony's problem was money. The point of this story is that there is often way more than meets the eye in situations like this. And the people who jumped on Tony's bandwagon without knowing all of the facts are the ones that I refered to as dimwits. It's kind of a lynch mob mentality, and I think they are idiots. Plus, as I said, they kept egging him on, and these two threads are kind of commercial suicide for Tony's business. He is looking at Efco from Tilton Equipment as a saw line. The Tilton family are just absolutely wonderful people, (even if they are Red Sox fans). If they are reading this, I doubt they would want anything to do with him.
My cheap comment, is I think clear in it's meaning, and should only sting those who I am referring to. Cut4fun uses a term "stealerships", and while I will often reflexively take the dealer side, I agree with him, that they are certainly out there. The stories that customers tell us of how they have been screwed at other stores are amazing. And a good dealer need not take offence to such remarks. As, I said it's great for my business to have a couple of them close by. But we do what we do for a living. That's how we pay for food, electricity, the mortgage, etc. We all do something for a living. And for those people who feel compelled to "beat the system" by thinking price, price, price, well they're cheap. What can I say? With some things, I'm cheap. We all are in one way or another.
Well, it's almost 2:00 AM, but it's hard to get to sleep right after a game. But this is enough of this.
Been to Virginia twice, and loved it by the way. Almost as beautiful as up here in the Catskill Mountains. No, we don't kill cats. It's a dutch word for river. The Dutch got thrown out before the French.
So, how about them beers? There is a famous place a couple miles from my house that has 500 different brews if you're ever up this way.
Sweet sounding saw though. When I've cut wood with other people, they said they can't even hear their saw over that 306a. Guess that's why they used it in the massacre.
OOOOOOOOOOOOPS, I sorts of 's installed a picture there. That pic was for Elmore but since you is helping me with my en glish I feel it be only far to let you view them babies too. I'll get the junk out the way on the next one so you can see them much more clearly. That's a mass of power and whoop hiny mo chines on that there shelf, ya hears me. Click da link below Chirs and mind ya, don't be scares of all them there tree eaters,haha.
