Beware of Matthew Rudolf, Pittsboro Plenty’s Goodwill Ambassador

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Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 14:30:21 -0400
From: jeane j glasson
Subject: Beware of Matthew Rudolf, Pittsboro Plenty’s Goodwill Ambassador

WARNING! Merchants of Chatham County – Be on the lookout for this man: Matthew Rudolf – http://www.biofuels.coop/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/matt_2.jpg

Matthew Rudolf, Executive Director of Piedmont Fuels (919-321-8260), Pittsboro Plenty’s Goodwill Ambassador is patrolling the streets of Pittsboro looking for those businesses that do not accept the Pittsboro Plenty alternative currency.

Despite your efforts to provide the best possible efforts you may make to please your customers, Mr. Rudolf will attempt to shame you publicly if he is NOT able to “offload” his Plenties on you.

Matthew Rudolf will claim that he is only trying to support your local business by offloading his Plenties.

Matthew Rudolf will try to convince you that it is a good idea to use your position of authority in your business to offload the Plenty funny money on your employees. (Can anyone say “company scrip”)

Matthew Rudolf claims the Pittsboro Plenty is a community effort. It is NOT! The push for this currency is being done by a small group of individuals.

Matthew Rudolf claims that the Plenty has put Pittsboro on the map. I have a 20 year old map of North Carolina that has Pittsboro on the map. What puts Pittboro on the map and is a source of it’s uniqueness is it’s downhome Southern hospitality and not the actions of some boorish individuals.

Of course, Mr. Rudolf will give you permission to exchange the Plenty with Capital Bank as a last resort.

And if you are simply too dense to comprehend all the benefits of accepting the Plenty at your local business, Mr. Matthew Rudolf, Executive Director of Piedmont Fuels (919-321-8260) and the Pittsboro Plenty’s Goodwill Ambassador, will round up your friends and have them speak to you, and explain to you, why the Plenty is a good thing for your business. (If this fails are we to see reeducation camps opening soon?)

Jeannie G

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Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 21:24:40 +0200
From: Matthew Rudolf
Subject: Antonella’s refuses the Plenty

Although I agree that Antonella’s Salon is an excellent salon, I am frustrated by their refusal to take the Plenty.  Last weekend I got a haircut there and when I gave my tip in Plenty’s I was informed that they were not accepted there.  When I asked Antonella why she didn’t take the Plenty she told me that it wouldn’t work for her business, that she couldn’t pay her vendors in Plenty’s, that she had already lowered her prices due to the poor financial crisis, etc…In fact she was borderline defensive in her refusal of the Plenty.

I found this strange – First of all, the Plenty is a community effort to support local businesses like hers.  They should be supportive. Secondly, you can always pay your employees a percentage of their wages in Plenty’s, so there will always be a means to offload them.

Third, it is movements like the Plenty that put Pittsboro on the map and help our community grow in the right direction.  We need more people to see the value in the uniqueness of our town, and that requires a level of support.  Finally, if you REALLY cannot offload them Plenty’s may be exchanged for dollars at Capital bank (for a 10% loss), which is right next door to Antonella’s.  The idea is to not do this unless absolutely necessary, but there is no risk of getting completely stuck with something with no value, that is the whole reason the Plenty group spent so much time setting this system up with Capital Bank, to provide security for businesses to join.

To be quite honest, I will not be returning to Antonella’s Salon until they decide to accept the Plenty.  So I urge those of you that have a good relationship with Antonella’s to speak with her and explain why the Plenty is a good thing for her business and our town.

Matt Rudolf