On Dec 29, 3:58*pm, wrote:
On Dec 29, 3:41 pm, " *Moonraker" wrote:





wrote in message

...

On Dec 29, 3:15 pm, " *Moonraker" wrote:
wrote in message news:f6e3bf37-3eaf-4e34-9db4- Why
are

you here? *Perhaps to support the complaints about all those

insurgent basement bandits opening up home studios or new retail
shops?

Get used to it. *Live with it. *There are more of both to come.

Adapt or die.

Well, if they adapt your business model and personality and customer
no-service reputation, *there's absolutely nothing to worry about.
Except
that they might find their way into some of the glass forums and
perpetuate
your brand of bull****.

Bring 'em on. *Especially the glass suppliers. *They've nothing to offer
except lower prices. *Until they die.

The next few years will be interesting watching who survives and who
fades into extinction.
I'm guessing that in 5 years more than half of the working pro
artisans are those now still at the basement bandit stage.

Whatever.

Don't you have somebody to bilk out of a kiln or something?

Hate to hamper your delusion.
Everybody that ordered a kiln got one.
Sales are about 30% up this year over last.

Victorian Art Glass has acquired several new Canadian
distributorships. *Keep an eye out for a January sales promotion.
Should I advertise here?-

Why ask....you've been doing it for quite sometime anyway.