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Subject: Is Marketing a Poker Game?
From: DK0179@AppleLink.Apple.COM
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Mon May 22 03:29:00 1995

< If your school was planning to purchase an item wouldn't you first make <sure it was available? Delivery time? Back log? etc.etc. <Next time, do your homework and <you might not get yourself into a worm-hole of dispair..... Just to make sure, of course we did prepare so, but what do you do, in case a promised shipment date is cancelled. I have here 7 different faxes, telling me confirmed shipment dates, which were not kept, with last minute delays up to more than a year. <Try to order a Astro-Physics scope and see you if it takes a year or longer. Even looking on objects, which are described in the Meade catalogue, - e.g. the 16 " dew cap - you may experience similar delays. What is promised as 6 weeks, turns out to be sometimes next year. Somehow, your national dealer becomes hostage in this american game. But of course, if everybody is falling on their knees, totally happy about just looking on magasine advertising pictures, Meade will never change... Maybe every other american company is playing the same poker cards, but be sure, as the leader of the market, Meade sets the standard, not only in quality, but also in behaviour. Have a nice day, Mogens.