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Site SearchRaleigh, N.C. — The state Department of Agriculture has filed a complaint against a vendor who never delivered on an order for promotional T-shirts leading up to the North Carolina State Fair.
The company, Promo Guru, out of New York, was supposed to deliver 9,000 T-shirts by early October, but didn't because of a manufacturing mistake.
The state spent $30,000 to order the shirts from a local vendor – $13,000 more than the order the state placed with Promo Guru.
The agriculture department wants the company to pay the difference.
"If we could have gotten any T-shirt out of that company, we could have been in a good position," spokesman Brian Long said. " We never saw any T-shirts from that company. We didn’t know if the T-shirts were ever going to make it here, because we never saw box No. 1."
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If a lot of people are doing the same thing, isn't that one of THE definitions of "conspiracy"?
October 29, 2009 3:54 p.m.
You call me a conspiracy theorist, but it seems quite a few of us are asking the same questions.
October 29, 2009 3:50 p.m.
But if it isn't, then support your local INDEPENDENT owners.
Most people would rather support Borders before buying at Quayle Ridge Books, who is independent (as an example) or Amazon because it's cheaper.
October 29, 2009 3:15 p.m.
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October 29, 2009 2:47 p.m.