Re: [Killietalk] shipping report comments

["Karl Doering" <kilikarl at bignet_net>]

Hi Monty Who wants free fish If you would have sent fish to our show 8 pair 
+ we pay your postage. Your box is sent back with any award that you might 
have won & you would have gotten a 70% split for your fish. So how is that 
FREE & buy the way after the Second MKA co-op we will have mailed out 212 
pair of fish with a 99% sucess rate.But we have been doing that for 20 years 
& in the BNL ONLY We ask for SUPPORT NOT FREE FISH. I think theres still; to 
many (iiiiiii ) in the AKA.  The MKA is a (WE)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Monty R. lehmann" <worf at visi_net>
To: <killietalk at aka_org>
Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 2:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] shipping report comments


>
>    In response to"
>     "Hi Monty Its nice to see you doing so well in shipping fish. But
>       when i looked on my porch this week there was no box from you
>       to support the Michigan show."
>
>
>  Hi Karl,
>
>  I am not surprised that you did not get a box of fish from me. I stopped
>  sending free fish to shows some years ago. I will give a couple of
>  examples why: I received a request for fish from a club who said they
>  were desperate for fish and would gladly recompense me for some rare
>  fish. I responded by sending them 14 pairs of fish. There were two
>  pairs of Diapterons, two pairs of  A. rectogoense, two pairs of a
>  cognatum, etc. There was not a common nor ugly fish in the box. I asked
>  that my shipping box be returned. It cost me $19 to ship the box. A few
>  weeks later I received a check in the mail for $17. That was the total
>  amount they compensated me for 14 pairs of fish, and they never said
>  thank you or even returned my box!
>
>  Second example: A friend in a club called and pleaded with me to make
>  their upcoming show a hit by sending fish in support. I sent 26 pairs of
>  fish in two boxes. I am always very short on shipping boxes and told the
>  club that I had to get my boxes back. Profuse promises to return my boxes
>  were given. After they received the fish I never heard from them again.
>  I called to remind them to return my shipping boxes and the club 
> treasurer
>  told me that my boxes had been auctioned off!!!
>
> A few more cases like that followed. Your club might not treat me so 
> poorly,
>  but I am far past the point that I want to risk experiencing that level 
> of
>  frustration and anger again.
>
>  My days of playing Santa Clause to clubs is long over. I have found over 
> the
>  years that many people do not appreciate free fish anyway.
>
> If asked by a club, I would provide fish at a discount price so the club 
> could
>   have more fish in their auction. I was not asked in this case. I have at
>   least 60 pairs of available killies in my tanks right now, but I am not
>   going to give them away. The only time I donate fish nowadays is to the
>   National Convention or if I am asked to give a talk, to offset the 
> travel
>   expenses incurred by the club as a result.
>
>                               Regards,
>
>                                      Monty
>
>
>
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