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Eric and Geert, good evening. Welcome!
Can you tell me in short how you came into contact with PiPa?
In short, Eric ...
First of all via the internet
PiPa is mainly focused on the internet, and that's how I came into contact with them
And how did the negotiations for the sale start?
Because our interview is mainly about that tonight
Did Geert take the necessary steps for that ?
No, not really ...
I went to the sale last year of Frans Sablon, a sale that was also organised by PiPa
Frans: the master breeder
And I was impressed because the pigeons were sold there for fabulous prices
You must know that they sold pigeons that never flew, breeding pigeons
I saw how they did the sale, with enormous marketing
And that left a positive impression, and then you made contact ?
There was contact where I said I would do that to someday
And they came to me and took my word for it
You then discussed it with Geert
And I assume that you, Geert, took the necessary administrative steps ?
When Eric took the decision it all went rapidly
We had a meeting with Nikolaas (Gyselbrecht) and Thomas
- Thomas Van Cauwenberghe -
We then discussed the possibilities and the opportunities,
fixated the time span,
the planning for the layout of the auction list, the photographs, ...
You then of course had already a positive impression of the team
The positive impression was already there!
We had already done 3 sales for Jewels of the Sky
and all went well
So our relation had already existed for a few years
How was the collaboration during the past weeks?
I mean at publicitary level, commercially, ...
What's your opinion about that?
We never had a stress-moment
because we planned everything very carefully
we knew the time spans
Everything was planned long beforehand, and everybody was calm
It went perfect!
Did you lobby yourself, or was that in dialogue with PiPa?
Or did you do - on own initiative - some lobbying to the foreign countries
like Asia or other countries, or was it all in conjunction with PiPa?
Everything was in conjunction with PiPa and we met regularly
We did it all together. It was teamwork!
I went to China 2 weeks before the auction
Nikolaas went abroad a few times
Now my final question, and I'll address myself to you Eric ...
The auction is now behind us
I suspect, I hope, I suppose ... that you are satisfied
but I'll leave it up to you to tell us your experience after the auction
and after that I'd like to know Geert's opinion
André, you said "satisfied", but I am more than satistied
We had a target
one of the targets was breaking the record
we did that, and we went far beyond it
Wherefore again my congratulations
For Geert and I it was beyond expectations
Geert, your final words?
I can say only one thing:
I had a difficult moment at the end of the auction
the stress that goes away
because you hope it will all go well, which it did
The collaboration was perfect
I can only thank the people of PiPa
for leading an event in such a good manner ...
and to finish it in such a fluent way ...
that's a pleasant way of working for everybody!
That's a positive endnote for a report that will go all over the world
to show that Belgium is still the source of pigeon sports
even of world pigeons sports
And that there are still organisations in Belgium that do business in a fair and honest way