Bill;
Am I understanding that the social club's owner wants a few bucks for his help
to disseminate accurate information regarding the Ercoupe. Am I correct or do
I remain blinded by opinions formed 20 years ago?
Absolutely disgusting, at the least.
Why not offer to fund a percentage of the production and if it pays off (and
most of the time it doesn't) then take a cut. Why not ask the Congress for
some bail out money?
I guess we'll hear from a at least a few spin doctors about this, but I know
the intelligence isn't there to be able to capitalize on the potential free
press.
As I said, this is absolutely disgusting.
----- Original Message -----
From: William R. Bayne
To: Ercoupers Tech Talk
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 11:49 AM
Subject: [ercoupe-tech] Re: Ercoupe doccumentary
Hi All,
I will do what I can to help Don Abbot's half-hour video be "first class" as
to accuracy.
If not him, who? If not now, when?
Regards,
WRB
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On Jul 10, 2009, at 02:28, Dan Hall wrote:
Skip & Sid,
...I'd prefer to get the Ercoupes story out.
...to preserve the legacy and Keep Coupes Flying.
Best regards
Dan Hall
On Jul 9, 2009, at 21:54, Syd Cohen wrote:
Skip,
I think we should give him all the support that we can. I think his
intentions are honorable, and he seems like a very honest and earnest Ercouper.
Syd
On Jul 9, 2009, at 7:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
At the National Convention Don Abbott one of our members wanted to do a
documentary on the Ercoupe. He came and interviewed several of us on video. Don
a professional TV person then asked all of us to sign a release........said it
was standard procedure. (Flag Goes up in my mind).....why does he need a
release? He told me that he was going to donate a portion of the profit to the
FEW fund (see budget below ).
I have been tied up with family matters (death of my step dad) and have
not had time to send him all the items he requested. I saw some comments that
Syd and Ed had made regarding the draft and I also commented on the draft. I
asked Syd if he had mentioned any type of compensation to the club and he said
no.
We have some very valuable material that could be used to make a lot of
money. My question is should we sanction this venture and give him all of our
material to use (sell) or should we stop it all right now. He has sent a press
release to be included in this months Coupe Caper asking members to send him
material. I need to get this resolved ASAP so I can get the newsletter out.
I contacted Don and here is his reply..................
Skip,
After receiving your message about profits from the documentary, I asked
our budget folks to come up with some figures for hard costs. The costs
represented are for cash out items only. As you can see, if we do a first
class production (which is the only thing we know how to do) we wind up with a
pretty significant loss. Some of that could be recovered perhaps by selling
the documentary to a TV channel, but I know from experience, considering cost
of sales, that is not a great money maker either.
I hope you understand I am really into this because I want to see the
Ercoupe story told properly and accurately.
Fortunately I have the resources to fund the project and am willing to
take all the risks.
I hope this serves to further resolve any concerns you might have.
Don Abbott
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Don must be very well off to undertake a $24,650.00 loss! I really need
your comments so that I can resolve this issue!............Skip
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