On 01/01/16 21:46, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:39:33 -0600, Ignoramus18273
wrote:

On 2016-01-01, wrote:
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 16:19:29 -0600, Ignoramus24995
wrote:

On 2015-12-31, Tom Gardner wrote:
I see, from my perspective I've watched my industry shrink in number of
players without new companies coming on line. There are really only 5
big boy players each commanding a different market segment. I had three
offers on my business when we put it on the market. Two were domestic
and one from Canada that wanted my flat wire technology and market REAL
bad. The Canadian company needed to grow and open a new market.
Canadians are weird people I found out and have a strange way of doing
things. I had a lot of frustration getting them to do things in a
timely manner and they wouldn't listen to me about how to do things and
how to relate to US customers. I thought it was just me until I spoke
with others in the industry and found out that that's just how Canadians
roll.

Since many years ago, I have a policy to never sell anything to any
Canadians. The reasons are exactly as above.

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You must have been dealing with the wrong Canadians.

I've delt with some of the "wrong" americans too.

I don't paint( or tar) you guys all with the same brush.
I posted a message about it.

Out of 12 or so experiences selling to Canada, 10 were bad
experiences.
That sounds like my experiences with the IXOYE fish symbol on their
business cards. I've only been screwed out of money 3 times, and
every single one of those futher muckers had the fishy symbol on their
cards. I refuse to do business with those who do, and I tell them
why.
I got screwed by a guy a I considered a mate, he and his dad claimed a
piece of mechanical design I did as their own and took it to market, a
good seller too so they or at least the son has made loads from it. Both
professed to be practising Christians and displayed that fish sign. I'm
somewhat more wary these days.


I really do not understand how that could be the case, it makes no
sense. But it was bad enough that I decided against further testing
this question.
Grok that. 3 was my limit.

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