<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Again, I have no expectation that they will hand me Premier Exec status for free and was perfectly willing to earn it by myself this year, and I would have accepted a no quite easily.</font>
Really? Didn't you just say that you did
not accept a no?
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I asked if there was someone I could write to consider it further...
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And, if you really had no expectation of getting it, why bother asking (and asking how to appeal)?