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I understand how embarrassed Uri
Baruk probably is about all that happened
at the WOC held in his country,
France.
Whether he agrees or disagrees with the vendor's
claims neither matters,
nor does it make them go away.
I do know a few vendors who were at
Dijon. One of them happens to be a
friend,
who just told me this morning that he
knows the source of David Hunt's
OGD post
and that ALL ELEVEN VENDOR COMPLAINTS in it
are true.
I believe my WOC Dijon vendor
friend.
Uri's disagreement with some of the 11 claims
is meaningless. Let him tell us which ones
are not true.
Actually what happened to my friend and other
vendors at the WOC in Dijon
is worse than David's post tells
us.
Here are just a few statements from my vendor
friend:
>Yes, all is true and unfortunatelly I was the
"xxx country" vendor!!!
>I had sold a good amount in pre-orders so I
could deliver them at the WOC.
>These customers came and went in the first five days, and I did not have my
>plants to deliver to them, for my plants were held up for 5 days. I also lost the
>money I paid for transport of
these "lost" sales.
>I lost 5 days selling at the show, for the 1st
selling day starts during the work
>on the displays and everything. These would have been the best days, because
>all the hobbyists were there during the 5 days of the CONGRESS. We received
>our plants just after the congress!!!!
.
>As for the one who wrote the vendor complaints to David Hunt, (and I know who >it is,) we had contracted the same
Freight Broker (indicated by the WOC organization,
>a company called ZIEGLER FRANCE), we sent
by freight 5.000 plants and when we
>left our country ........we received
by e.mail our Import Permit, but the original one!!!!??
>Who knows where it is????
>We brought with us another 60 plants for a
friend who had the import permit already
>done and when we arrived in Dijon we asked
for customs to check the plants, we
>paid the taxes and started selling the few
plants we had. After 3 days the customs
>came and told us that we could not
continue selling, because they did not have the
>origial import permit. (They did
not have the one we gave them the 1st day!!!!).
>After the weekend, they finally found the
Import Permit and we started selling again.
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