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<blockquote data-quote="Tim McCulloch" data-source="post: 43435" data-attributes="member: 67">Re: Getting the gig. Where did it all start?Tim Trace, myself and another Tim revoked Mr. Duffin&#039;s first name a couple of PSW forums ago. We have amazing super powers! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Kidding aside, I&#039;ve seen all of the predatory practices he&#039;s mentioned although not all in our production world.&nbsp; About 15 years ago we had a competitor call up and say &quot;I&#039;ll give away shows so you guys can&#039;t work.&quot;&nbsp; Our reply was &quot;I hope you got an early start.&quot;&nbsp; About 3 years later he was out of business, and he&#039;d inherited most of the work that was left behind when a growing regional provider hooked up with fat kid from Stillwater and moved to Nashville.&nbsp; His emotions and some bad employee decisions sank his company.&nbsp; We&#039;re still here.A couple of years ago we had a new twist on this, a firm moved to our &quot;big city&quot;.&nbsp; Headed by a fellow with deep pockets and a lot of desire, they&#039;d manged to bring down the value of the regional market by 30%.&nbsp; It&#039;s slowly coming back up as they&#039;ve either found other clients or are pursuing other aspects of production.&nbsp; Our response was to double down on our gear and people.&nbsp; We&#039;re still here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tim McCulloch, post: 43435, member: 67"] Re: Getting the gig. Where did it all start? Tim Trace, myself and another Tim revoked Mr. Duffin's first name a couple of PSW forums ago. We have amazing super powers! ;) Kidding aside, I've seen all of the predatory practices he's mentioned although not all in our production world. About 15 years ago we had a competitor call up and say "I'll give away shows so you guys can't work." Our reply was "I hope you got an early start." About 3 years later he was out of business, and he'd inherited most of the work that was left behind when a growing regional provider hooked up with fat kid from Stillwater and moved to Nashville. His emotions and some bad employee decisions sank his company. We're still here. A couple of years ago we had a new twist on this, a firm moved to our "big city". Headed by a fellow with deep pockets and a lot of desire, they'd manged to bring down the value of the regional market by 30%. It's slowly coming back up as they've either found other clients or are pursuing other aspects of production. Our response was to double down on our gear and people. We're still here. [/QUOTE]

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