Dear playofriends
I hate being the bearer of bad news but today to my surprise following an email i sent for a ds order , i had a phone call from Playmobil greece which was pretty much bad news for us and me, a greek collector and has raised some moral and important questions that i feel obliged to share with my playmofriends and this community i am a proud member of
First i was trying to place a DS order for klickies and steck glass windows ( a simple post i put in the trade section that has also upset me a great deal today .... ) . In a nutshell , as all playmobil greece employees know me by now i had a call from Playmobil immediately after my email and i was told that Germany will take no more DS orders from greek collectors this year as there were lots and lots of orders/ order last minute changes / small orders etc and i think its fair to say ( i say this not them ) they had enough .....
About 2 years ago i personally started a conversation with playmobil about accepting DS orders something perhasp others have initiated , i dont know about this i will state only the facts i know of . Wolf Knight also did and we worked together very hard towards achieving this by synchronizing our moves/calls/discussions and most important ORDERS . And i am sure others in their own ways like grangel also worked towards this. On a personal level i dare say that i increased some of my orders and most definitely re routed orders from europe to playmobil greece to increase our bargaining power and position to apply pressure to playmobil to accept this even though that move meant some money loss for me . I know for a fact that Panos also did this for that very reason i cant say that for others as frankly i dont know and cant confirm . I had 2 meetings and many calls /emails with Playmobil Greece to discuss this , a discussion in which shorty afterwards other greek collectors joined in I am pleased to say . I never considered this a personal achievement but a team one and i cant tell you how happy i was when i placed my first ds order
. All together i placed only two big DS orders in 2011 with a significant value .
From my feedback from playmobil today my conclusion was that people have taken advantage of that DS service by basically occupying playmobil greece and germany with lots and lots of orders , changes to orders, constant requests etc and now that has lead to a postponment of any ds orders for january . I think its fair to say playmobil greece and playmobil germany got ' fed up ' with one or more collectors ,
that is my OWN assessment and notbhing officially was told to me by playmobil. I sincerely hope those responsible have some decency to stop for a second and think about what they have done to the rest of collectors like me and stop just catering for their own needs and realise that was a combined effort and not just something they were given allowance to exploit as they have clearly done . A sad day for me and i dare say for our beloved playmobil community ... Sorry to bring such news all BUT i feel obliged to mention this perhaps that makes those responsible think for a change the results of their actions , i truly hope so .... I feel even disgusted to mention some of the arguments that have come to my knowledge of how people communicated with playmobil for small ds orders / order changes etc , god enough said .
