Ridecamp: [RC] Free Enterprise

Annie,

The difference you are missing is:  Pizza Hut does not franchise
(sanction) another Pizza Hut close to the first one.  What Dominos does
is not controlled by Pizza Hut.  You are comparing Apples to Oranges.

Lets use endurance riding as an example: Lets assume a hypothetical
"endurance organization" exists known as United States Endurance Ride
Organization, and they sanction their own endurance rides.   I would
expect "USERO" to sanction their endurance rides without any
consideration as to the time or location of AERC endurance rides.  USERO
would only be interested in coordination of their own rides, not what
AERC does...that would be "free enterprise" between competing endurance
organizations.  When AERC sanctions rides too close to each other or in
the same window of time, that is not free enterprise, that is bad
business practice and eventually hurts everyone - the riders will suffer
as the number of rides shrink.  If you believe each Ride Manager and each
Ride is in competition with each other then you have set up a system to
eliminate many rides.  If that is the case, then why have Sanctioning
Directors at all?   It would be much simpler for Ride Managers to  send
in the Sanction Application straight to the AERC Office and let the
Office rubber stamp the Sanction Applications...and then let the
strongest rides survive.  Unfortunately, if we operate that way, there
would be a very quick reduction in number of rides because those located
in the larger population centers would dominate - Ride Vets, who are a
very small number - would be completely booked up and some rides would
not be able to get the services of experienced Ride Vets because they
would be working the big rides, etc etc.  Vets like Barney, Gail, Jaime,
Jim, etc would not be available to many of the rides they current work
because they would be working the select big rides.  There is a reason
AERC has Sanctioning Directors who coordinate ride dates - it is for the
benefit of not only Ride Managers, but the riders, too.

Randy

From: "Annie George" <ageorge@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [RC]   Pizza Hut.
 
If Pizza hut is close to Dominos, and everybody likes Dominos better, =
then by by pizza hut.  Its called free enterprize. Annie G. 
Anne George Saddlery   www.vtc.net/~ageorge   
 

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