Oh hell.
Now...WE will never hear the end of it....
and NEXT year's drama just got real interesting.
I would agree with that.
For what you charge him, he can't get anybody better.
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The latest thing on Saturday's event 8-31-19
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Oh hell.
Now...WE will never hear the end of it....
and NEXT year's drama just got real interesting.
I would agree with that.
For what you charge him, he can't get anybody better.
It truly is sad the way you slandered this man for months (most of which on the public forum for everyone to see) all based on your personal gut feeling of how he might treat you...no way to take any of that back... and now its all fine just because he paid you on time if not earlier.
You truly owe the man an apology.
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ps- luckily no one here except maybe nightmare believes you or respects you enough to allow that slander to marinate even a second in our minds. but that cant be said for visitors to the site.
You truly owe the man an apology.
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ps- luckily no one here except maybe nightmare believes you or respects you enough to allow that slander to marinate even a second in our minds. but that cant be said for visitors to the site.
The guy showing up today paying us $400 was a surprise to me. What happened he realized he wasn't going to find someone else to do it for the price we charge him that is good as us. He talked about the terrible job the last guys that did it. He said and I quote he got shitted on. Now we can go do it next year God willing and be OK with things. It's still worth more then what he's paying us but at least we feel comfortable doing the job for that price now. My partner said it. He did what he did because he knows he can't get anybody that is good to do it for as little as we're doing it. I just wanted to feel respected and I do.
The big issue with me was when we offered to do it for $300 and he turned us down. The problem with that is we had done it a few years already. So he knew what he would be getting. So he went with someone else for $250. He saved $50 but at the end was highly pissed off. He came up to me and said that was BS. Then asked me how much would I charge. I told him $350 because I couldn't stick with $300 after he blatantly disrespected us. He quickly shook my hand sealing the deal. That's what it was about.
My friend does events yearly for different people an organizations and doesn't run into such issues. They love what he does, they pay him his price because he's that good and as soon as possible contact him about doing the event next year. If it's a slight increase they pay him without hesitation.
The big issue with me was when we offered to do it for $300 and he turned us down. The problem with that is we had done it a few years already. So he knew what he would be getting. So he went with someone else for $250. He saved $50 but at the end was highly pissed off. He came up to me and said that was BS. Then asked me how much would I charge. I told him $350 because I couldn't stick with $300 after he blatantly disrespected us. He quickly shook my hand sealing the deal. That's what it was about.
My friend does events yearly for different people an organizations and doesn't run into such issues. They love what he does, they pay him his price because he's that good and as soon as possible contact him about doing the event next year. If it's a slight increase they pay him without hesitation.
Ever wonder why you get the opposite response and zero respect.
by the way... i cant fathom doing any event for 400 dollars....lets alone split it two ways....how do you and your partner make a dime between taxes...insurance...gas...etc...
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You seriously need to walk away from this. As much crap as you talk about him, this is not a good thing - for anyone involved.
Don't you first have to be paying taxes and buying insurance ... among other things?
Let me say this and I think we all can agree with this. You don't keep doing business with someone you don't like. The fact that he keeps getting us to do the event should say we keep delivering a service that he's happy with. If he wasn't happy with us he would look elsewhere for someone else to do the event. Let's look at something else besides the DJ business. Let's say it's a restaurant. You only go a restaurant that you like. You're not going to keep going to one that you don't like.
So when a client keeps using you that should tell you you're doing a good job for that client and their event.
So when a client keeps using you that should tell you you're doing a good job for that client and their event.
Nope.
When a client likes you....wants you....they go to great extremes to hire you....change event date...money not an object.... contact you first.
Through your own admission... countless posts in multiple threads... that simply isnt the case here.
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Wrong again as usual. He contacted me months ago about doing this event again. I told him yes and we're doing the event again this year.
If the above sentence were truly the case....then you could have saved us all about a thousand posts by just saying the words in the above post quietly to yourself as you mailed him the contract ...instead of the months of drama you posted about and described here daily...
I cant be for certain....but im starting to believe that you arent right in the head Doc.
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You make it very clear you don’t like or trust this person yet you keep doing business with him, your statement needs to work both ways
You don't like him .. so what does this say?
How is it possible that everyone here is 'wrong again as usual' - yet we're proven right every time?
Disagree. You are working with him and you don't like him.
He can be working with you and not like you, but just hires you because you are much cheaper than any other possible alternative.
Sorry for the rant here. We work with him off of a hand shake. After I told him we would do it there was so much confusion about how things were going to be done. He was talking to my partner about things and my partner was telling me what he said.
There were assumptions that we made and as time went on we were told different things. So we weren't sure what was going on.
Scott you missed my point. People don't normally keep booking you to do an event for them unless they are happy with the service you provide. You wouldn't keep hiring someone to do a job if you didn't like their work.
I went to a diner many years ago with a friend and both the service and the food were terrible. I never went back again and told others about how bad it was. When it's something good the word will get around.
There's a restaurant in Montclair, NJ called Crocketts Fish Fry on Bloomfield Avenue. I go there regularly. I go there because the food is excellent and the place is very clean. The people who work there including the owners are very nice. I highly recommend the place to others and everybody agrees it's a great place to get food to eat. It's a bit pricey but well worth it! A Whiting fish sandwich is $8.50. You get 4 pieces. That's just one example of the price. On Friday and Saturday night you better call before you get there or you will have a long wait. I've been going there for over 15 years.
There were assumptions that we made and as time went on we were told different things. So we weren't sure what was going on.
Scott you missed my point. People don't normally keep booking you to do an event for them unless they are happy with the service you provide. You wouldn't keep hiring someone to do a job if you didn't like their work.
I went to a diner many years ago with a friend and both the service and the food were terrible. I never went back again and told others about how bad it was. When it's something good the word will get around.
There's a restaurant in Montclair, NJ called Crocketts Fish Fry on Bloomfield Avenue. I go there regularly. I go there because the food is excellent and the place is very clean. The people who work there including the owners are very nice. I highly recommend the place to others and everybody agrees it's a great place to get food to eat. It's a bit pricey but well worth it! A Whiting fish sandwich is $8.50. You get 4 pieces. That's just one example of the price. On Friday and Saturday night you better call before you get there or you will have a long wait. I've been going there for over 15 years.
Scott didn't miss your point. You missed his and seem to be trying to change your angle simply because you 'got paid'. People buy lesser quality stuff all the time (to include yourself), simply because they don't want to pay more for something better. You are trying to make it sound like he went out of his way to hire you.
The point is simple - YOU .. are the creator of all the drama with this event and you refuse to walk away from it, even though you say you don't need him. If you were a DJ working for me and I found out you were saying all this about me, you would have a very hard time finding work again.
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I think you missed HIS point.
People will return to a mediocre restaurant many times over again because it's convenient and the price is ok. Is it stellar? NO! But it meets their expectations. Sometimes fast food is good enough, sometimes you want to be served on a real plate instead of a paper wrapper and a family restaurant is good enough, and sometimes you just plain want (and are willing to pay for) the great food and great service of the steakhouse or fine dining establishment. They all fulfilled their job of feeding you. They all get repeat business. If your analogy were true, McDonald's would be out of business. They certainly aren't the best restaurant, yet here they are still. Selling crappy burgers by the boxful.
You would if their price was much less than what others were quoting.
You would if you're trying to raise as much money as you can...for a charity.
You would if the service they are providing just isn't the most important part of the event.
You said it yourself..."he wasn't going to find someone else to do it for the price we charge him"
That's where you're wrong at. In the beginning there was no mention of anyone coming to help us out with the event. Then later on he contacts my partner to tell him of the plan to have someone come and help us out if need be. So they were supposed to bring in some gear for us to use in case we needed it. I found out Sunday these guys met him at City Hall and that's when the discussion took place about them helping out with the event. He told them he didn't have any money to pay them for helping out if we needed them to help out. They decided thanks but no thanks. So they declined to help out only to find out who are the guys originally setup to do the event. We both found it funny.
They have better equipment then we do when it comes to speakers and amps. Then the guy let me know he wasn't trying to steal the gig away from us. That's not how either one of us operate. To be perfectly honest what we have can't come close to anything they have. What they have will make what we have sound like a portable boombox. Now do you get a clearer picture?