Poor Form
I would like to tell you guys about a vendor that is not a sponsor here and I can now understand why,
Its kind of a long story but here it goes,
I have a friend who is the manager of a shop here in Australia he is in Brisbane in the east coast and Brisbane is the third largest city in the country, now by comparison it is not that big compared to what you have in the states, Brisbane has 1.7 million people and the Gold Coast (where I live) is 45 kilometeres to the south with approximately 700 000 people.
My friends shop has the ability to make approximately $50 000 a month, and it has done this on many occasions.
He mostly specialises in Jeep but will do work on anything.
Jst recently he went to the US for a meeting with Jeep Jamboree USA.
Now before he left I told him he should get a vendor from the US and sell their products here in Australia, we talked about who it should be.
Now Offroad Evolution is distributed by SBR here in Australia and Vic is a really good bloke and he has got it all sewn up, and because he is a good bloke we did not want to approach ORE.
SBR is on the west coast of Australia and there is 1 major city there, but he ships all over Australia at good prices.
Here on the east coast there are 5 major capital cities.
So we thaught of a vendor that sold an array of products, so we thaught Rebel Offroad would be good because of this reason, and the owner had previously live over here and had toured a lot of this country.
My friend is the only person outside of the USA that has permission to run and conduct Jamboree type tours, he has the permission to use the Jamboree title from Jeep Jamboree USA.
While on his trip to the US he was with a friend of his that owns Outlaw Jeep Tours Moab, and they were at a jeep thing somewhere (I dont know where).
And he was introduced to someone at Rebel Offroad.
A conversation took place and it was established, that the Rebel Offroad employee said that they would not be intrested in having an Australian distributer, because get this, Australia is too far away.
Now keep in mind that Australia is second to the USA for sales of Jeep Wranglers in the world ( or so I have been led to believe).
Either way I was not happy to hear that someone whould say something as stupid, to someone that is wanting to sell their products.
I could undersatnd if we were a town of 10 000, but this is Australia, 23 million people and with approximately 19 million on the east coast, Im sure that a business that makes approximately $50 000 a month would be able to move some decent amount of product.
But anyway this is my gripe about that vendor.
Hope you enjoyed my little rant.