Peggy, I respectfully disagree
Peggy,I wrote in my post to this question that I thought you should ask your dealer for tickets, because they'll want your future business. I believe your post is twisted logic from clients point of view. Now, admittedly your a vendor, but consider this:When I bought my Hunter 280 in 1996 I still attended the Newport show every year thereafter, always on comped tickets from my dealer. No I didn't go there to buy a boat, I had just done so, but, I assumed they wanted my future business and in the scheme of things the tickets are cheap. Let's see the dealer gave me 4 tickets in 2 years at maybe $10.00 a piece, and in 1999 I bought a Hunter 380 from him. Hmmmmmmm.... maybe giving away tickets was the best marketing money he ever spent! Could I afford to buy the tickets myself.. of course I could, but do you think the dealer is worried about his $40.00 investment now? I don't think so. Client loyalty in this business is not great. Hunter's customer service and my dealers kindnesses are part of the reason I came back a 2nd time. Don't discourage what works. I will probably be back a 3rd time too!Happy Holidays everyone.Bob KnottH380S/V Serenity