there must be a name for marketing taking precedence over quality and the
consequent fall in quality of a product. Same at MB. THe marketing book I'm
reading that uses MB as an example (for the whole book) documents the take
over by marketing very well (early to mid 90's) - imagine that!
I'm a marketing manager in "real life" and it is
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO short-sighted to do things like that, that
I can barely comprehend it. Customer satisfaction, retention, happy customer
to prospective buyer friend - these are not part of marketing? It blows my
mind. Ultimately, MARKETING DOESN'T care. If your salary/bonus is based on how
much $ you bring in over your relatively short career (esp if moving around to
another company every ten years - THE NORM) then screw the product and the
company, pull in $ short term, piss the customers off, get paid big bucks for
being a totall ass and move on. It's sick.
Veil Spaß...ist Freitag!
Chris
Marshall Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Loren Faeth wrote:
> It is clear that the marketing clowns are running the M1 show. It is all
> about hype (for the harley crowd) I am seriously thinking about trying the
> NAPA or JohnnyB's oil.
>
Mobil had people that knew how to make GREAT oil, but hadn't a clue
about sales/marketing. Exxon has seldom spent even a penny on making a
superior product, but would spend as much as needed to sell what they
had. What is happening is what I suspected would happen when they bought
Mobil. The next move could be to cheapen down the cost of making the
Mobil line (they haven't YET). I'm afraid they'll introduce a line of
group III oils (or dilute down the Mobil 1 line) soon if they can't make
a big enough profit margin on their group IV/V product(s).
Marshall
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I'll give you $10 for the tool kit.
On 3/3/06, Kaleb C. Striplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> These have a port to manually air up the tank in the drivers front wheel
> well.
>
> Robert & Tara Ludwick wrote:
>
> > Just bring an assortment of plumbing/air fitting s to cobble something
> > to tap some pressure into the suspension to get it off the ground.
> > Shouldn't be too hard to load after that.
> >
> > -----Robert
> >
> > Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
> >
> >>Think Im going to bid on it, bet it would be a mother to load on a
> trailer.
> >>
> >>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Mercedes-Benz-300-Series-73-Mercedes-Benz-=
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> >>
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