Most of the foreign sellers had big
problems; some could not receive their plants at all
and knew theywould have BIG BIG
problems because the costs for this show were
very very high.
Also some people had paid to have a sales stand
and when they arrived were told:
"No,.. the value you paid was only for
registration, you do not have a stand. Can you
believe this? We helped one person by letting
her sell from our table.
All things described by David's friend are
true.
Some people said that all the problems
weremade to protect the French growers,
others said that the French Orchidées who
organized (If we can use this word) the
WOC had problems with customs, some days
before, and all the vendor's problems
werebecause of it.
Even the sellers who did not have any problems
claimedthat no one came to see if they
(we) needed something, to see if everything was
ok, etc. Things that are commonly done,
wherever we go to sell or show our orchids.
They had many people working for them as
volunteers and they had noteven
given thema hotel to stay It is unbelivable but it is true.
They worked for free and had to pay all their
expenses!
Nobody, tried to help us or even tried to find
out what happened. They just wanted the
payment. A MESS is too short a word
to describe the WOC in Dijon.
We have been helped by our country
representative in Paris, whom Icontacted and now
I will check what I will have to do, to claim
our losses.
I paid for things that I did not get,and
I also paid 3.500 EUROS for Broker service and taxes,
for all the plants and yet we could only
sell 50% of them.
If I had received my plantson time
wecould have donean extra $20,000.-.in
sales
Who will pay this
Believe me, mine isa poor country but our WOCwas much much much
better organized
than this one. Maybe this WOC Dijon is the worst one that will every be
seen..
As`far as another vendor's
experience,mentioned in David's # 3 complaint, his was also much
worse than reported by David Hunt Someone who spoke in Dijon with that vendor reported the
following:
Hishybrid flasks were apparently both
untouched and undisturbed. The straight species flasks were all
tousled and the contents missing prior to their
arrival at the show. Interesting laws of physics, given they
were all shipped in a single box!It is
believed that this transpired in customs at Charles De
Gaulle.
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