[meteorite-list] a bunch of "competitors" in Ensisheim

[Zelimir Gabelica]

Hi Michael, Mike, Hans, Bruno, List,

As I already notified Mike, by no means NOBODY will ever be kicked off from 
Ensisheim show. This is just impossible to even conceive as far as I and my 
co-organizing friends are concerned.
Gathering as many people to share a common passion is the fundamental 
reason of the creation of our show. Michael is more than right: everybody 
(dealers included) would for sure profit of such a fair competition.
I second that the japanese behavior is very strange.

In less than 10 days from now, you will be almost 50 dealers to gather and 
be kept close to each other for the best pleasure of every visitor and most 
certainly of each of you.
So please Mike, Hans, Bruno...be happy and smile.
We all have fun to offer that certainly each of us is willing to take and 
share.
As Micheal would say: the more people willing to share fun, the more fun is 
generated..

More Ensisheim news to come.

Cheers,

Zelimir


A 14:21 07/06/05 -0700, Michael Blood wrote:

>Hi Doug,
>         It certainly looks like a clear cut example of relating to other
>dealers as "competition" instead of colleagues.
>         It has been well known in the gas business and in the shoe business,
>and many other businesses, that if another dealer opens right next to
>you or across from you at an intersection business actually INCREASES.
>Even more so, if a third dealer  comes in.
>         The theory is that buyers then think of that area as the place to
>get gas or shoes - or meteorites. However, some dealers still relate to
>other dealers as "competition," and some, obviously, then go about
>doing whatever it takes - regardless of the cost to the other dealer, to
>eliminate them. I believe it is referred to as "territorial." The irony is
>it doesn't really benefit the one(s) being territorial....
>-

Prof. Zelimir Gabelica
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