If you were a patron you would have been at the party. Since you weren't there most likely you are not a patron anyway. Therefore rendering your patron dollar threat theory to be mute. Business Psycholoy 101. At least we agree on one thing.... its time to move on.
By his post he was a patron of the FV show, which he was commenting on, and where he would have spent his patron $$$ I expect. I don't think "the other show" was ever mentioned in the post. so yes he was a patron of Martin's but not your show. I call that Patrons perogative, or maybe he didn't even know the other show existed, who knows, who cares.
Let's move on. What I find more important and you mentioned, these girls aint getting any younger, and need to pay the bills. Well the age bracket of the fansis going the same way, they who, keep purchasing their products be it membership etc etc, so to be harmonius and not sarcastic to the dwindling consumers may be a good idea. The dynamics of organising a show like these I have always expected to be very difficult and reading how Martin's panned out only confirms this. You mentioned in an earlier post re Minka's rates. At the 2005 Fan Fair her polaroids were 200% more expensive than the other girls, but of all the crew I went with we still got a polaroid even though they were expensive, maybe they weren't and the other girls under charged but I don't think so. This shows to me the Big Boob girls have a solid though not huge Fan base, who will be loyal to the girls if they get a bit of respect back. Of course I know this will not happen in every case as there is indeed some f*wits out there.
Last but not least Chelsea & Summer you are all class.