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<blockquote data-quote="John Chiara" data-source="post: 97559" data-attributes="member: 53"><p>Re: What is your competition like?</p><p></p><p>To clarify my position here. I am having a real hard time with a few companies who agree to do public city events, sponsored by a local BID organization and they do it for no profit or even enough to cover expenses by my calculations. I think the motivation is to take all the gigs so orhers can't have them, which has gone on around here for decades. I am a little tiffed at the municipality for knowingly playing along and basically putting on events where local restaurants and bars make a windfall profit on a weekday and the sound companies work for nothing. We are also businesses based in the city. As usual, if at least the production was stellar I could justify it from the audience perspective but obviously that is not the case and I am at a loss to understand the short or long term benefit of this arrangement. I was asked last week to provide at the last minute for a 2 day city event, and after making arrangements and getting labor agreements from people was informed that my conservative bid was almost double one of the other companies who got involved after the fact. Frustrating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Chiara, post: 97559, member: 53"] Re: What is your competition like? To clarify my position here. I am having a real hard time with a few companies who agree to do public city events, sponsored by a local BID organization and they do it for no profit or even enough to cover expenses by my calculations. I think the motivation is to take all the gigs so orhers can't have them, which has gone on around here for decades. I am a little tiffed at the municipality for knowingly playing along and basically putting on events where local restaurants and bars make a windfall profit on a weekday and the sound companies work for nothing. We are also businesses based in the city. As usual, if at least the production was stellar I could justify it from the audience perspective but obviously that is not the case and I am at a loss to understand the short or long term benefit of this arrangement. I was asked last week to provide at the last minute for a 2 day city event, and after making arrangements and getting labor agreements from people was informed that my conservative bid was almost double one of the other companies who got involved after the fact. Frustrating. [/QUOTE]
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