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Hi,
This might seem a little strange but I need some help and thought
you folks might be able to help me out.
I'm Mark LaJeunesse and I work for the Sales Support Organization
for the General International Area (GIA).
I have a customer that is coming to Boston in April from Australia
and he is VERY interested in playing at the Brookline MA, Country Club.
As it turns out you have to be a member or know/be invited by a
member in order to play the course.
Soooo what I'm asking is, are there any Brookline Country Club members
out there that would be interested in playing a game of golf with
an Aussie. He's a pretty good player from what I understand.
Anyway, you would be doing the company and myself a service if you
could help out with this.
Please contact me at AKOV13::LaJeunesse or Mark LaJeunesse @AKO
Thank you,
Mark
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 565.1 | FYI | CGVAX2::BRADSHAW | Mon Apr 03 1989 12:27 | 3 | |
Just thought you would like to know --- It's not the Brookline Country
Club but THE COUNTRY CLUB in Brookline. (Not to nitpick, but to
some ie:members, there is a big difference.)
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| 565.2 | Not So Fast, Slick... | BOSHOG::VARLEY | Tue Apr 04 1989 14:46 | 31 | |
First of all, I hope this guy is a REAL GOOD customer, and a low
key gentleman to boot, because The Country Club is very, very hard
to get on (and stay on).
I can give you 2 suggestions that might work:
1. have him contact the Australian Embassy in Boston, if there is
one. They may have some friends among their counterparts in our
local government branches who are members. At that point, you could
set something up.
2. Have the secretary of his golf club correspond with the secretary
of The Country Club, attesting to his membership, character and
handicap, as well as when he wants to play. If TCC is favorably
disposed, he should bring a copy of the letter of introduction with
him, and contact the club to determine who he should present it
to at TCC so they can issue playing credentials to him.
You're right, the best way to get on is to play with a member,
but why would a member of a course as historic as this put his
membership on the line (because if the guest turns out to be a "fruit
fly", you can bet that the member will hear about it from at least
one committee) to "do a favor for DEC"? Sounds like somebody has
already made a promise they can't keep, as well as one that is more
difficult to deliver than they understand... By the way, if we at
DEC are supposed to be ethical in our dealings with customers (no
Sox tickets, lunches, calendars, pens, etc.) shouldn't we treat
them the same way as much as possible ?
If it's really important (and ethical) to deal with a customer
in this manner, then I suggest you do the legwork I described in
#s 1 and 2, because either can work. I've played The Country Club
five times, but the suggestions are as far as I'll go on something
like this.
Jack.
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| 565.3 | AKOV13::LAJEUNESSE | Tue Apr 04 1989 15:30 | 15 | ||
Thanks Jack. I'll forward that information down to Sydney and let
the Account Manager pass the information along.
This guy is the MIS Manager for the largest Utility in Australia
so I don't think he would be a radical or anything like that.
I have to admit that I don't know him so your right I certainly
can't vouch for him.
Thanks for the information.
Mark
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