fatty mcbutterpants
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- Joined
- May 18, 2011
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Fair enough if you are paying full retail price for the baskets. Once you are given any deal, by the manufacturer, seems like they would be more than entitled to ask for some compensation, in another way. You may not be able to come to terms with this manufacturer, but that is your choice. If the deal made no sense to you, sounds like you did the right thing by walking. Gateways job is to make money....period.
If my memory serves me correctly, we did not even get to talking about the cost of the baskets. What I was told happened in my first conversation with the people at Gateway. I basically stated that I wanted to purchase the baskets and then I was told their terms for doing business. The $3,000 I was told we would need to pay for a non-existent designer, along with having to give them credit for having nothing to do with the design of the course, was not worth demeaning the works of the locals so they could pad their resume.
As far as Gateways job is to make money, I agree. That is what makes it an issue. That is not what they did in any sense of that statement. They did not get the thousands of dollars that they would have gotten from the sale and the free advertising that having baskets installed gets. They did not try to just make money; they tried to get unearned credit for a course and lord from upon high like mighty arbiters of disc golf.