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Date Posted: 10:21:00 03/03/07 Sat
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Which pageants don't cater to the vendors??? I'm more than ready to go to just those pageants.
In reply to: 's message, "Outrageously Costly Vendor Boycotts Encouraged" on 14:08:08 03/02/07 Fri

>My dd and I love glitzy pageants. They are the best.
>What we don't appreciate are the way the
>vendors try to manipulate the parents, and many of the
>most expensive vendors make the mosts shoddy outfits!
>
>To hear a vendor tell it, only the girl with the most
>expensive outfit will win the contest! That is an out
>and out lie. I've seen it time and again.
>
>THIS KIND OF EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL SHOULD NOT BE THE
>CASE, PEOPLE!
>
>What happened to good old down-home creativity? Let
>the so-called vendors hold their OWN contests. Many
>of their products are inferior anyway and I refuse to
>let my daughter get caught up in who has the most
>EXPENSIVE outfit just on that premise alone.
>
>As one of the ladies said below - and for WHAT? It is
>just ridiculous, people. It has gone way past "Oh
>just only go to the contests you like." In reality it
>just doesn't often work like that. We should band
>together, stand up and boycott all vendors selling
>overpriced outfits. We should inform judges about our
>concerns. Most of them would agree with us!
>
>Expensive vendors should be boycotted completely --
>that just can't be stressed enough -- unless of course
>you have cash to burn--and that doesn't include many
>of us.
>
>Use your own judgment, but I've heard many a pageant
>mom tell about some very expensive vendors who ripped
>them off, and I'm sure you have, too. This forum says
>not to name names, so I will respect that. But I will
>say some of the biggest name vendors have been some of
>the most scandalous rip-offs. Beware, and AVOID AVOID
>AVOID!

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