Check out Mr Cummings advertising and marketing people.:
http://blakesleeadv.com/
Check out the portfolio by client then check out the contacts. See any names in common with the post below? At the end of the article.
Sooooo, who's steering the boat?????????
Rumor out here is we're duplicating marketing efforts and someone may be going
P.S. Notice who's not on the list of clients...coincidence...I think not.
Ski passes at center of dispute
Killington skiers claim they should receive 'lifetime' privileges
Patrick Parkinson, Of the Record staff
Article Launched: 01/11/2008 04:04:22 PM MST
The embattled American Skiing Company is named in a lawsuit filed by a group of Vermont and Massachusetts skiers who claim their season passes to ski at Killington resort must be honored forever for free.
The plaintiffs seek class-action status for their case.
ASC once owned Killington, which it sold to Park City-based POWDR Corp. as American Skiing Company dissolved in 2007. POWDR Corp. teamed with SP Land Company LLC to purchase Killington and neighboring Pico Mountain for $85 million.
"Lifetime ski passes" the plaintiffs own at Killington entitle "them to free use of all ski lifts operated at Killington," a 7-page complaint filed against Killington, LTD., American Skiing Company, SP Lands Company, LLC, SP II Resort, LLC, Killington/Pico Ski Resort Partners, LLC and S-K-I, LTD.
To raise funds to create Killington on land owned by the state of Vermont, the Sherburne Corporation began selling shares of stock in the resort in 1958, according to the lawsuit.
"As an incentive to purchase these shares, Sherburne offered a lifetime ski pass to any purchaser of a certain number of shares," the complaint states. "Under the terms of these lifetime passes, the holder was entitled to free use of all ski lifts operated at Killington for so long as a lease with the State of Vermont was in effect."
When Park City-based American Skiing Co. took control of Killington in 1996 the company was required to honor the lifetime passes, the lawsuit filed Nov. 1 by Martin Post, Jill Post, Judith A. Dark and William Langlais states.
The case was filed in Rutland Superior Court in Vermont and then transferred to U.S. District Court in Burlington.
"By 2003 American Skiing Company was in significant financial straits," the lawsuit against the company states. "It conveyed certain assets to SP Land Company, LLC, an entity created by Killington, Ltd. and others."
Early last year ASC agreed to sell Killington.
"The 2007 purchase agreement specifically recognizes the existence of the lifetime passes and requires the purchasers to honor these passes," the lawsuit states.
But last year Killington Ltd. President Allen Wilson said the passes would no longer be honored.
Skiers were asked to boycott the new owner of Killington.
"We intend to nip this in the bud and show them very clearly that their new vision for our resort and their overall business ethics are not appreciated here in the Northeast," the group concernedkillingtonskiers@yahoo.com stated.
Members of the group encouraged Killington skiers not to buy their season passes early.
"Delay your pass purchase until within 48 hours (of) the final deadline for a discounted pass, which will most likely be in early October," an e-mail from the group stated. "Pre-season pass sales represent 15 percent of Killington's yearly revenue, or roughly $10 milllion, which is received prior to the start of resort operations."
Last year, a spokesman for POWDR Corp. said Killington officials would continue to honor about 35 lifetime passes at the resort.
But calling season passes purchased at Killington in the 1960s "lifetime passes" isn't accurate, POWDR spokesman Mark Fischer said.
Those passes were only to be honored by the Sherburne Corporation, Fischer added.
Killington, the largest ski resort in New England, is situated on about 1,200 acres near Rutland, Vt.
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