OVERVIEW
Renice Jones of Global Crafts Florida USA
sent me 2 letters by GMail on 18 December 2017
2:40 pm (364 words) and 2. 3.37 pm (382 words)
I responded to her letters by parts.
That each topic has it’s thread for ongoing discussion.
My responses totalled a LOWER number of words
than Renice’s two e-mails to me, earlier that day.
For this reason, the characterization of my
communications as a “torrent” by Kevin is unwarranted.
This was our last exchange (7:58pm) before
I received that rude notice that my IP had been blocked.
The following text is me quoting Renice back to her,
and responding to what she had written to me:
(the most recent e-mail first: in other words,
this is the LAST email we exchanged before I was blocked.)
18 December 2017 EMail from Renice Jones (Global Crafts): “When Caitie first visited, she brought a sample costing sheet and worked through the costing of product with the women. “They needed to do costing before I could consider placing an order.” “To ensure we are paying a fair price on any future orders, we will need costing for each product type and can supply a template.” “In hindsight, we should have insisted on reviewing costing analyses as most fair trade suppliers see before buying. But as Art Camp was once an FTF member, we assumed that they understood about fair trade pricing.”
18 December 2017; Reply by Martin Rizzi. GMail
Please help me understand this principle you are making reference to:
As an example, if cost of materials for a given piece = two dollars
How is this fair price derived? Thank you for explaining this to me. (7:58 pm)
Answer from Global Crafts: None.
This was the last email communication, before I was most impolitely informed that the communications channel had been blocked.
In my LAST reply to Renice’s GMails of that same day, I responded to her textual reference to the visit of Caitie, Global Crafts employee.
Heck if I know what she meant by: “In hindsight, we should have insisted on reviewing costing analyses as most fair trade suppliers see before buying.”
I was just asking her what is the costing analysis she is referring to. She seems to be complaining that in her two visits, Caitie did not get some cost information from the craftswomen? I don’t know. It’s hard to imagine. Their costs are certainly no secret. I was asking Ms. Renice to explain her meaning so I could understand the nature of her concern. Maybe somebody can tell me what she was getting at, with those words addressed to me in one of her two GMails the morrning of 18 December 2017. Because, I still don’t get it. Were my questions to her impertenant? I don’t know, Maybe my manner of replying was too informal as to be impolite? I’m sorry if it was. That was not at all my intention. I was replying to her GMail and I had the cooperative president besie me at the time. My thought at the time was that I was replying to Renice’s doubts. In the background, were mailed to Global Crafts that fateful day of December 18, 2017, based upon the list-wholesale prices of Artcamp’s products.
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