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Originally Posted by kimball
Some years ago, a group of enterprising Ambassadors bought Candy at discount prices and started selling it to gofers at starter shacks. Great, we could get a between 9's snack for a half a buck and the Ambassadors made a few pennies to augment their minimal salaries. Oh no said Golf Administration, (another name for the "Family"). Can't do that. We are now taking over the concession and you must buy your candy from us.
Yesterday, I bought a candy bar at the turn at Cane Garden. The last time I bought one the price was $.75 which was about two years ago. ( I don't eat much candy) Yesterday's Reeses Pieces cost me $1.50!!!!! Yep folks, that's the new price. Now our crumby little candy bar at the turn is making it to the bottom line of the ever growing family fortune. At what level do they become ashamed of their greedy behavior. By the way, while they gouge us for candy bars, the greens were not fit for a public course in the NE, and the smell of the pond at the 3rd Tee at Allamanda was repulsive. Perhaps they are planning to use the excess profits from candy bars to address these other issues.
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Well thought out post. May I suggest that you plan ahead of time and put some Reeses Pieces in your golf bag or the cooler on your golf cart. That way perhaps you could be as enterprising as the Ambassadors were and sell them to your buddies and put a few bucks a month in your pocket. I for one always have power bars in my golf bag and sometimes some beer in my cooler. I do always offer some to my golf buddies. As we used to say if you don't have enough to share don't bring that stuff out in front of others.
As for the Ambassadors selling anything out of a building owned by The Villages I don't blame The Villages for stopping them. If I were their attorney I would tell them not to allow this to continue. I am sure that if someone got a hold of a bad candy bar they would go after The Villages before they would go after the Ambassador.