TheGoldenChild

XBIZ has never shown me any egregious attitude- I know Gretchen, Alec, Stephen Y, and Don to be very gracious, humble people.

Mike Hawk- I love you too man!
However to clarify something about your post- AVN may have helped you out over the past year or so, and while you may have considered it to be a benevolent gesture- they still smelled your money-

If you didn't have any presence at the tradeshows, and people didn't like you, do you think you'd get the same attention?

Let me simplify this even more, If you didn't advertise elsewhere do you think you'd get the same treatment?

When I worked in radio, it was my job to solely prospect other radio stations to see who was advertising, and cold call them.

You are no different than Cal Worthington- well maybe you are- you don't wear a cowboy hat.

:-))

Also keep in mind, John Gotti may have been a criminal, a mobster, and a horrible person-
but he also fed all the needy in his neighborhood every Thanksgiving-

Did that make him a nice guy?
To the morons who needed him it did.
To most, he was still a scumbag.

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