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On Jun 12, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Andi Meek wrote:
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> It also creates very high expectations from clients, who are getting more and more ratty about insignificant little details about their experience and trying to use these as a means of getting money off the job. A few of the bigger places I've been to in soho (no names) are ridiculously plush - one of them had the name of their company etched - ETCHED - into their glass mineral water bottles! They want the moon on a stick, five star hotel surroundings and the cheapest possible rates, it's no good for the business i tells ya!
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> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> From: avid-l@outpostfacilities.co.uk
> Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:26:30 +0100
> Subject: RE: [Avid-L2] Pepper Post
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> Yes they were serious players but like several others in London, often get
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> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
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> Sent: 12 June 2011 14:09
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> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
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> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Pepper Post
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> Ah, I had heard about fancy parties at Cannes.
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> Still, they were a serious player, weren't they?
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> On 12 jun 2011, at 14:59, Aidan O'Brien wrote:
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>> I don't know about undercutting. But their offices were ridiculously
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>> and chill out zone. Incredibly overstuffed silken armchairs, to be honest
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>> the furniture was more expense then the Groucho club on the street over.
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