I've been planning my vacation for a long time. I love astronomy and decided I wanted to ride a comet (Halle's of course) but when I called the travel guide she told me she'd lost her TLC and she canceled my frequent flyer account.

Well I was devestated, but then I started looking at a few of these johnny come lately's and finally settled on a trip to Sydney. I had a great time...

Anyway, I enjoyed international travel so much I'm booking a trip to Paris. I heard French is a wonderful launguage and the view over the alps is breathtaking.

I'll probably have time for one more adventure and one of the guides told me about a wonderful trip to Central America....but I've heard Sedona is spectacular in the fall. Either way I'm sure I'll have a great time. All these new tour guides seem to really want my business and know how to take care of a customer. Obviously I'm disappointed I couldnt give my business to my old tour guide....but everything ended up just fine.

I learned an important lesson along the way. Why go Greyhound when you can travel 1st class all the way.

Whoops my flight to Paris is boarding....got to run.

-- Modified on 11/2/2005 7:43:11 PM

...for not giving you a discounted rate, which is fine, but why the alias?  Aren't you the one that constantly complaints about alias's? Seems to me that you are simply pissed off that you can't pay your greyhound rates for first class service at ALL the agencies in town and are trying to start BS again. But why hide??  I'm actually very surprised that you would try to hide behind an alias when all we hear is how horrible all alias's are. Shame on you.

Hmmmm.....

No reason I'd change my stripes over something so trivial. I would never bring up an issue like this but since you opened the door I got my two by four out just for you sweetie.

Yes, you did pull my "rate"....but in fairness I'd had it for well over a year without using it since you've slipped from a solid #1 here in town to #4 and falling like a stone. Meanwhile I was nothing but nice to you here on this board and elsewhere.

The truth is that for well over a year you were a two bit agency that had a $150 agency fee with a 2 to 3 times multiplier that ran ads on places like eros posing your gals as indies....all while trying to find "the secret formula"....

Well Jack & Danny actually gave it to you, and it took you from a nothing here in Phoenix to #1 with a bullet....then you let your ego get in the way.

It didnt take them a year to leave Tire tracks all over your back once they decided to do things right. Scottsdale elite and Desert Diva's have followed and I bet Sean will be looking at you in his rearview mirror soon as well.

There, you feel better now...?

-- Modified on 11/2/2005 11:49:54 PM

I'm probably one of the happiest & well adjusted guys out there. If you two really want air all this stuff out in a public forum I'll pull you out from behind all your alias's and petty little drama's right here. I'm one of the few folks here that knows the real deal and calls it like it is....but I've never crossed the line and aired it all out......

Just say when sweetie.....

Why can't you respond to something with revelance,
like back up an indy...

to my general reputation for being blunt (I think someone used the term "blunt force trauma" earlier. Now alot of what goes on here IS sparring....isn't it? My choice of wording is simply indicating a confrontational stance on a particular post or topic....nothing more or less.

Not alot of people here are nice all the time. However most people will say the good things openly and the bad anonymously. As I've said before I wont say a thing behind your back I havent said to your face.

Now here you are out on an overnight with a client and you've got time for all this meaningful discourse. Aren't their other things (like your customer) you should be paying attention to darling?

Someone call the WAAAAABULANCE...what a bunch of whining.

You are your post are not worth arguing over.  Move along to someone else who doesn't give you a discount.

-- Modified on 11/3/2005 9:46:14 AM

I'm sorry, I rarely feel the need to interject in the drama, and you seemed like such a gentleman when I met you at the meet and greet, but I read your post, and two words come screaming out at me... SOUR GRAPES!  Also, I believe there is a typo at the end of your post.  You say you are disappointed that you "couldn't" give your business to TLC, but I think you meant to say "wouldn't"
Jackie, TLC (not an alias, I just don't have my own membership)

and considering I am in Atlanta (two hour time difference), I was up and at it early this morning.

Oh...the "public service announcement" is that I am having a new site built as we speak...new link...watch out

Take a chill pill Hacker...we might all breath a little better today.

Nice to hear from you.

I'm still the nice guy from the party. Lets look at what you just said "sour grapes". Your correct in the sense that I was a respectful repeat customer who never said a single bad thing about your boss. We both know Taylor has issues with certain factions of the local community and mistakenly viewed me as part of some secret cabal whose only intent is to harm her business.

So if you try and walk a mile in my shoes you'll see a guy who has gotten caught in the middle of a power struggle (the real drama here) between the indies, hobbiest's and Taylor as the original big agency. Lets face it, GRP exists only because the only thing Taylor and Mya hate more than each other is Jack. So if I come across as hostile or argumentative its because I know alot more then 98% of the folks that post here.

BTW I tried to "give business" to TLC for the last 3 months unsuccessfully. And yes I "wouldn't" give business to TLC this time around....but then I'm one of the few folks who knows how the cards are really delt. you know the real deal also....what would you do?

You asked " what would you do?"; my answer would be that you spelLcheck your reply before you post; I know, it is just me that gets annoyed with bad spelling like "delt" coming from jerks like you.