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RE: [GWL]: New type of greenhouse - offer to GWAA members

Title: Re: [GWL]: New type of greenhouse - offer to GWAA members

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Lon J. Rombough [mailto:lonrom@hevanet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:22 PM
To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
Subject: Re: [GWL]: New type of greenhouse - offer to GWAA members

 

I'm going to play devil's advocate here for a minute.  

I agree with Lon.  Both Nancy and I feel strongly about that issue.  It goes even further and some companies have trouble with it.  Our position is that we are always interested in testing new products and welcome the chance to do so.  We make it clear however that we do not pay for the product, we keep the product,  and we do not guarantee that it will get reviewed.  Our position is that if we don’t like the product for whatever reason, we will only tell the company and will not shoot them down in public.  If we do like the product then we will tell our audience in whatever manner presents itself – in our case in Nancy’s two columns, in my Internet work, and in both of our speeches to all manner of folks.  For example, I am giving a seminar to master gardeners in mid-October on beginning greenhouses.  That would be a great exposure for a new company trying to establish a market.  Master gardeners in one state talk to lots of master gardeners in other states and the word spreads. 

Shane should also point out to the company that when they make that kind of offer, they are not going to get hit with hundreds of requests.  Most garden writers either have no interest in greenhouses, of if they do they already have two or three types on board.  I would be surprised if 20 garden writers took them up on the offer; maybe I’m wrong. 

Later,

 

Jeff Ball

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