FezzJohns up to something?
I was at VEW over the weekend, and heard from one of the reps that the first guy that came into their booth on Thursday bought up every closeout they had. I later heard a buyer mention that he had an appointment on Friday with a different vendor to buy closeouts, but that when he got there, they told him that someone had been in on Thursday and bought up every closeout they had, except for a few kid's frames. The guy that they described sounded like someone I know, but I couldn't be sure.
The,at the Marchon party on Friday, I ran into none other than Johns! He had about 50 wristbands that he was handing out to anyone that looked like they needed one. In fact, he had more wrtistbands than the Marchon reps had. (Contrary to how he used to write on OB, I think Johns is a teetotaler) If you didn't know better, you'd have thought that he had thrown the party. Some of his staff was there, and one of them confirmed that he and "some guy from Pennsylvania ", had been meeting and talking about some new frame distribution concept, and that Johns had purchased more than 15,000 frames from one company alone. She was pretty tipsy, so I don't know how much to believe, but it does fit in with the rest of what I'd been hearing.
To top it off, when I asked Johns if he wanted to get together for lunch on Saturday, he said he'd be "long gone". One of the girls that was with him (I guess he brought around 10 staff members to Vegas) said that she had booked the flight and the hotels, and that Johns was not returning home, but to Pennsylvania for more "meetings". I tried to find out exactly what was going on, but she just said, "He doesn't tell us anything". When I asked Johns what his plans were, he just smiled and said that he was having the time of his life, and that he was working on "leveling the playing field for opticians". Yeah, he was pretty vague about what is going on, but it sure is intriguing.
Did anyone else run into Johns at VEW? Also, did anyone see Fezz there, or better yet, did anyone see them together? I know they've been off of OB for awhile, and Johns had mentioned last year that he was up to something, but I was wondering if anyone else had heard/seen anything? I can't speak for other offices, but I know that we could really use some of the product that FezzJohns used to sell. I'm hoping that if they are up to something, they do it really big this time.
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