Deep Blue Marine (DPBE)

[jrf30]

<<And these are more than likely clients that would understand how important this type of exposure is...
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Oay, let's put a little logic to that thought.

I'm a busy executive. I rearrange my schedule so that I can take my vacation on a specific week, and go tot eh DR. I buy a ticket to the DR, which most are non refundable nowadays. I get ready to go.

Then, five days before I am to leve the company I am diving with calls and says "oops. Wwe found something else to do tht week. Good for us. Bad for you. We can't do it.S orry". I understnad?

NOT.

I have my tickets already paid for. I have scheduled my replacements and severtaries all to do what needs done so I can gbe gone next week. I have it all worked out. Now they aren't going to BE there?

You think that is esay for them to do? I'll tell you what. It would not be something I would be understanding on. A nd I AM the type of person they are trying to get.

I'd be yelling aobut hte airplane ticket, the expenses of setting up the trip, and my time. As would MOST busy executives that need to plan their trips.

THAT is more like reality.

I still say that I feel they had no people. It is easier to do this if there were no people scheduled. And that means that the press releases about how ExecutiiveXscapes is going well and going to fund most of the 2008 budget was a lie. And it means that when they talked to me and said they HAD some people, they lied. And that is ot a good thing for managemetn to do. (Again)

But to say "Ohh, they would have called, and these people would understand" is just not true either. Executives are driven people that drive pothers and have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders. They (And I) would consider a phone call saying the boat would not be there, les than a week before the scheduled date, to be "unacceptable".

Period.