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Mr. Ward- Please check the techdiver archives for my response to your assertion that "blackballing" occurred at the Monterey DIR demo. If you search by author "Andrew Voss" and click on the first "Oz Tek" message, you'll find it. With all due respect, in the future please get your facts correct before you engage in meaningless criticism. Please feel free to contact me if there is anything else I can do to clarify the situation, and again, you are welcome to the Monterey DIR demo occurring on the 19th and 20th of August. Andy Chris Ward wrote: > > <snip> > > >BTW, my only "incident" with DIR to date: > > > >Monterey DIR demo. Was going to attend, got into fracas with DIR > >evangelists on rec.scuba and basically decided not to go....Scott(DIR), > >emailed me and said "don't listen to them, come to the demo and check it > >out, we'd love to have you". This was 2 weeks before the demo, I called > and > >left 3 voice messages and 2 emails to the shop hosting the event trying to > >get a slot and get on the boat. Never received a word back. Scott > >announced about 2-3 days prior to demo that there were spots still > available > >on boat, I called and left 2 more messages and emailed 3 times......no > >response. I later found out(according to another person who wanted to > go), > >that personnel from competitive dive shops were blackballed. None were > >allowed to attend, at least certain ones. This doesn't sound any > different > >from your OzTek fiasco, other than it was inter-shop instead of > >inter-agency. Regardless, I, as an individual diver, interested in seeing > >your demo was not allowed to hop on your boat, because I work for a > >competitive shop. I couldn't make it Saturday, because I had to work. > > > >I'm sure you guys have heard the old saying "perception is reality". If > you > >get a large group of people saying you're arrogant and assholes.... then > >maybe that's how they're seeing the presentation of your service. I'm > >talking about your obvious detractors, but the normal guys who's just > >interested in hearing what you have to say on the ng's. > > > >well, that's enough rambling for now. (Steps off soapbox and puts on Flame > >retardant wetsuit) > > > > Interesting....no response to the above statements..... > > Chris > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Andrew A. Voss Webmaster Monterey Bay Dive Center http://www.mbdc.to 831.656.0454 225 Cannery Row Monterey, Ca. 93940 -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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