Yes John, I am a YTB Travel Agent and proud of it. You’re just jealous because you didn’t come up with the YTB idea for yourself and how long have you been in the business? HELLOOOOOO!!! Did you not see the market shift when Expedia came out? Did you not see the trend after 911? HELLOOOOO!!!! Are you not paying attention to your own industry? What a professional. And only since you mentioned the word…who’s the “stupid” one? Us? Because we are taking business away from other online companies? There are tons of people who would have done their booking online anyway so you wouldn’t have gotten their commission anyway “stooopid!!! Speaking about numbers, who cares what the numbers are? $50mil? $225mil? blah blah blah! It all boils down to providing service to my clients and a livelihood for my family. Maybe I should mention that my clients are my family and friends so you wouldn’t have gotten their business anyway. I’m sure that when you started in the business, you didn’t know everything. Unless, you are one of those “ONE UP” guys. Everything and anything that anyone has done, you are already “one up” on them because your crap don’t stink. You probably don’t even have a clue about our training program at all do you? All the YTB agents I know and have seen in my short time with the company probably spend more time training themselves about the industry than you or your close minded friends will ever know because you are too “stupid” to come and find out. Instead, you look at your bank account and blame us because it’s going down. You got too comfortable and you just need someone to blame instead of blaming yourself for what you are experiencing. You can keep your 80% of the 16%? Oooohhh, 80%. I’m scared. Didn’t they tell you it’s not what your percentage is but what you “TAKE HOME”!!! You are obviously standing too close to the trees to see the fire coming. You can smell it but, you stay because you like being burned. Sooner or later, the 1000+ of you are going to be approached by many friends to join them because they see the opportunity and you’ll lose more clients. I’m going to call people like you “HEM”. You and those 1000 other HEM’s. If you don’t know who HEM is, get the book “Who Moved My Cheese?” and look at what’s printed on page 46 because you’re a dinosaur. Maybe they’ll make a HEM Museum and you’ll be in there along with the other 1000 HEM’s next to the dinosaurs. Oh by the way HEM, how many of those 1000 agents are you OVERRIDING? Now that deserves a capitalized STOOOOOPID!!! Don’t you just love America? You have the people who believe in the land of opportunity and you have the HEMs. YTB is one of life’s concerns that you have no control over HEM so if you don’t join us, lower your living standards and get a second job to make up the difference like every other red blooded American. And so my little HEM friend (and believe me you’re not my only HEM friend), the YTB TRAIN IS COMING, WE HAVE NO BRAKES AND YOU’RE STANDING ON THE TRACKS!!! With VISION we are moving forward, with your BLINDNESS, you’re walking in circles. My apologies if this has offended anyone even you HEM but, you drew first blood “stupid”.

Great comeback Doug & Ronda!

The petition was NOT ARTA’s idea. It was mine and done by me.

The decision by RCI happened long before the petition–so they are mutually exclusive events that happened to have exquisite timing.

YTB consistently changes it’s “sales” numbers to appease different audiences. I have to assume the numbers reported to the SEC are correct. And if so, they came nowhere close to selling $226M in “verifiable travel sales” in 2006. Looking at their commission revenue it is closer to $50M in sales. However, if you are trying to sell the program, the $226M sounds a lot better. If you read the TW report, it says that $176M of that was from website sales and from monthly website maintenance fees. These are NOT travel sales. These are website sales.

Nice try though.