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- From: paul@hsh.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Supra flame
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.215018.200@hsh.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 01:50:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.134912.159@hsh.com> <BiksTB1w165w@willard.UUCP>
- Organization: HSH Associates
- Lines: 62
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- In article <BiksTB1w165w@willard.UUCP>, dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
- > paul@hsh.com writes:
- >
- >> In article <NJikTB2w165w@willard.UUCP>, dawson@willard.UUCP writes:
- >> > I've been using a SupraFAXModem v.32bis (V1.200-C TR14-Jxxx-001 032) modem
- >> > for about a month.
- >> [stuff deleted
- >> > I've been in line for the free H-ROM upgrade for over two weeks. Supra's
- >> > tech rep assured me I'd have it by the end of the first week. Why should
- >> > they make promises they damn well know they have no intentions of honoring?
- >>
- >> Stuff like this reminds me of the old cartoon that ends with the store
- >> manager saying to the surly customer, "I've fired my employees, closed my
- >> business, and I'm about to hang myself... NOW are you satisfied?"
- >
- > Pleased to hear you have a sense of humor!
-
- Hey... in retail, it's either that or a dull razor blade. :-) Oh, I could
- tell you STORIES......
-
- [...]
- >> Where do people get the idea that all of their orders will be in their
- >> mailbox with tomorrow's mail?
- >
- > Could it be .... Satan!? Nah. It was from Supra. Their representative
- > told me "by the end of this week." Or, can't you read?
-
- Hmmm. No, I can't "read" verbal communications between two absent parties.
- :-) But OK, yes, I read the form, too; Supra underestimated the demand.
- Badly. Reeeally badly. Bet they'll never make THAT mistake again.
-
- >> Have some patience, for God's sake. Yes,
- >> some delays are unavoidable -- but they REALLY don't do it DELIBERATELY to
- >> p*ss you off. Really. Honest.
- >
- > What makes you think the delay pisses me? Really, it's not the delay, but
- > it is instead the promise Supra's rep made, knowing full well they'd never
- > be able to live up to it. Sound ethical to you?
-
- Why do you instantly jump to the conclusion that they are "unethical"? How
- can you possibly know the rep knew "full well" that it wouldn't happen?
- Believe me, sales reps are the *last* to know. Really, now! I'm not here
- to defend Supra, mail order, or big business, but let's back down, OK? If
- you're not in a retail business (especially one that involves mail order),
- you have no *idea* of the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune that always
- stalk you.
-
- All right, I'm one of the lucky ones. If I was in your shoes, no doubt I'd
- be muttering by now, too. In fact, businessfolk have a damn sight lower
- threhold of tolerance than lay folk. But a businessman can also appreciate
- the hell that other businesses go through when they're a victim of their
- own success; it's happened to me, too, and you scramble like hell to make
- it right. I bet a lot of competitors are looking at Supra and sighing,
- "Gee, that's a problem we WISH we had!"
-
- ------
-
- Paul Havemann, VP HSH Associates (201) 838-3330
- Internet: paul@hsh.com Compuserve: 70410,3507 AOL: HSH Assoc
- "Any opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the company."
-
- (But the ones in THIS post most CERTAINLY are!)
-