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>Most of the foreign sellers had big problems; some could not receive their plants at all >and knew they would have BIG BIG
problems because the costs for this show were
>very very high.
>Also some people had paid to have a sales stand
and when they arrived were told:
>"No,.. the value you paid was only for
registration, you do not have a stand. Can you
> believe this? We helped one person by letting
her sell from our table.
>All things described by David's friend are
true.
>Some people said that all the problems were made to protect the French growers, >others said that the French Orchid�es who
organized (If we can use this word) the
>WOC had problems with customs, some days
before, and all the vendor's problems
> were because of it.
>Even the sellers who did not have any problems
claimed that no one came to see if they
>(we) needed something, to see if everything was
ok, etc. Things that are commonly done,
>wherever we go to sell or show our orchids.
They had many people working for them as
>volunteers and they had not even
given them a hotel to stay!!!! It is unbelivable but it is true.
>They worked for free and had to pay all their
expenses!!!!!
>Nobody, tried to help us or even tried to find
out what happened. They just wanted the
>payment. A MESS is too short a word
to describe the WOC in Dijon.
>We have been helped by our country
representative in Paris, whom I contacted and now
>I will check what I will have to do, to claim
our losses.
>I paid for things that I did not get, and
I also paid 3.500 EUROS for Broker service and taxes,
>for all the plants and yet we could only
sell 50% of them.
> If I had received my plants on time we could have done an extra $20,000.-. in sales > Who will pay this????
> Believe me, mine is a poor country but our WOC was much much much better organized >than this one. Maybe this WOC Dijon is the worst one that will every be
seen..
As`far as another vendor's
experience, mentioned in David's # 3 complaint, his was also much
worse than reported by David Hunt Someone who spoke in Dijon with that vendor reported the
following:
>His hybrid flasks were apparently both
untouched and undisturbed. The straight species flasks were all
>tousled and the contents missing prior to their
arrival at the show. Interesting laws of physics, given they
>were all shipped in a single box! It is
believed that this transpired in customs at Charles De
Gaulle.
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