Payless supplements Comp sponsorship let down.

[Realtalk]

I was made aware of this yesterday and today and tbh find it pretty dissapointing. I'm just going to post what I posted on Facebook about it this morning. Marvens reply has been "what a hater! You're always going to get kids like that". So because I'm awaring people of your lack of integrity that makes me immature? He let a whole lot of people down, lied and used the comp to advertise his bussiness without any intention of doing his part of the deal. The habits he is known for in the underworld are creeping into legitimate avenues now and affecting good people trying to grow a sport. This shit needs to be stamped out which is why I'm posting this on here. It's unacceptable.

I see these kinds of 'success memes' or call them what you like plastered all over social media. Usually posted by bodybuilders or meatheads into lifting weights, personally I don't really understand it. But I suppose it makes some people feel good, I'm really not sure? Majority of the time these posts with the stupid quotes on them couldn't paint a more different representation of the persons character who post them. Which is why when I saw this one it pissed me off abit.

Last weekend a friend of mine ran a push/pull powerlifting competition in ellerslie. He invested a lot of time and effort into the organising of it. One aspect of organising a successful competition is sponsorship and supplement prizes. A sponsorship is a two way street. The promoter provides a platform for promotion of the business and advertising for the business in this case via social media and posters along with word of mouth and just generally promoting it to the powerlifting community. In return product is provided for prizes (which is promotion in itself as well). We all knew Marven of Payless supplements was the sponsor of the event. Even I did and I live over 250km away from where the event was being held. So to say there was a lack of advertising of Payless supplements is bullshit. Unfortunatley but not to my surprise, Marven didn't stick to his end of the deal. He took the free advertising and promotion for his business and didn't show on the day or provide prizes as he promised. Essentially scamming the organiser into giving him and his business free publicity for a number of weeks. He was contacted multiple times in the lead up to the competition and confirmed he would be there or if he couldn't he would drop the prizes off for the competition. None of this happened. This is a let down, not only for the organiser who is my friend but also to the people who competed that day, put in 100% effort and had to leave empty handed as far as supplements go. No apology has been made by Marven which isn't really a surprise. So I just wanted to say we as the powerlifting community don't endorse Payless supplements as the competition posters suggested. We endorse and support honest, stand up individuals and businesses who honour their words and stand by their agreements.

[maccaz]

ah what a joke
customer facing business 101: he could have just done an apology, used a plausible excuse (didnt even have to be true, just lie say something came up) and say you want to provide some prizes retrospectively because you feel so terrible about missing it on the day and spin whole thing into your favor
 
people that pull the "haters" card irritate me, pointing out that someone has done something wrong is not hating its obervation

[Skeletor]

What a let down for those guys that ran the comp. They would have felt embarrassed having this guy not show with the prizes as promised after giving him all the free advertising. What's his excuse? He could have couriered the supps there in less than a day .

[maccaz]

Some kind of bug in the forum, my post has been deleted. Pseudo please look into it. Definitely didnt qualify to be deleted

[Boosting]

Maybe he didnt show up because he got kidnapped again?

[Pseudonym]

Some kind of bug in the forum, my post has been deleted. Pseudo please look into it. Definitely didnt qualify to be deleted

Strange. I'll look into it and see if we can get it back. Sorted.

 

Having organised a few competitions myself now, I can say that is absolutely one of my worst nightmares in dealing with a new sponsor. You feel a huge amount of responsibility to your competitors (after all, they're only competing on the basis that you promised them prizes), and you just hope that the sponsors will come through for you at the end. Thankfully, we've never had a complete no-show, although I remember one that was a bit slow to deliver and I had to put the hard word on. So I can totally imagine the guilt and helplessness this organiser would be be feeling. It stinks.

[Riccardo]

Wouldn't expect anything less tbh. Make a deal with the devil and you'll probably get burnt. It sucks everyone was let down like that. I'd send him an invoice for the advertising and when he doesn't pay, take it to the tribunal.

[Realtalk]

Payless are sponsoring GPC bop 3 lift this weekend. They have a Tauranga store down here so they offered/agreed (I'm not sure i didn't organise it) to sponsor our event which is cool. So this guy down in Tauranga can get back some face and redeem the brand for his fellow shops in my eyes.

There are a few Payless stores it's just a shame when one person gives the lot of them a bad rep but I suppose that's franchises for you isn't it?

He is going to be doing tastings and promoting his shop and brands he sells. I hope he gets back some bussiness from doing it. It's a two way street and both parties get back what they put in to it.

[maccaz]

There are a few Payless stores it's just a shame when one person gives the lot of them a bad rep but I suppose that's franchises for you isn't it?

 

 

 

Agree. other franchise owners should be pissed off, in a normal franchise situation say for example fast food chain, it'd be pretty good grounds for taking the franchise name off the person, telling them to not use the name any more if they were bringing the name into disrepute. major victim of this kind of thing is the owners of other franchises in the same name, as through no fault of theirs the name loses some credibility. 

 

say for example one subway store starts putting bugs in their food, obviously subway as a collective gonna be telling that store to f*ck off and cancel their right to sell under the name before too much brand damage is done

 

good of them to do this at bop comp and show that different franchisee = complete different service

[Bigken1985]

Payless Sups sponsored nzpf nats this year. seemed pretty good. had bcaas in the warm up room, and good prizes. Hopefully just a cowboy