Hah... all good ideas. :-)
Tom C.
From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Pentaxian.com Contest
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:36:45 -0400
If the paper were nice and soft, I'd hang it in the outhouse. If the
hubcap were rare and interesting, I'd make it into a wall clock,
otherwise I'd use it as a dangerous Frisbee...
Tom C wrote:
> Well I'm sorry you don't get it.
>
> Even though we now know the site was not designed to attract new
business to
> Pentax, let me ask... If you won an owners manual or a hubcap for an
> automobile you didn't own, what would you do with it?
>
> Tom C.
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>> From: Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> Subject: Re: Pentaxian.com Contest
>> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:36:19 +0200
>>
>> Tom C wrote:
>>
>>> No why would I have a problem with anyone receiving a nice prize? You
>>> obviously chose to ignore my first two sentences.
>>>
>>> I'm just pointing out the irony of a *camera company* having
"legendary"
>>> products not giving some of those legendary cameras away in a
'contest'.
>>>
>>>
>> Actually, I'm not sure Pentax is a camera company. Or I guess they may
>> be, but a *camera company*? I doubt it. After all, we are talking about
>> the manufacturer of the stuff my optometrist will put inside the frames
>> if I buy a new pair of specs from him...
>>
>>
>>> It would be like a major auto manufacturer running a contest and
instead
>>>
>> of
>>
>>> including an automobile as a prize, they give away owners manuals or
>>> hubcaps.
>>>
>>>
>> It's actually rather more like if Suzuki decided to give you a
motorbike
>> instead of a car. But not quite. Actually, I can't think of a good
>> analogy in the business you are referring to; yours definitely makes
>> little sense. Unless you know a hubcap producer that has later expanded
>> into an automobile manufacturer.
>>
>> - T
>>
>>> Tom C.
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>>>> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>>> Subject: Re: Pentaxian.com Contest
>>>> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:35:28 -0700
>>>>
>>>> Gads, Tom. How could they make such an egregious error?
>>>>
>>>> Sheesh. It seems you always something to be critical about, even when
>>>> someone has been gifted with a very nice prize unexpectedly. I guess
>>>> for some people the glass is always half empty.
>>>>
>>>> Godfrey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sep 12, 2007, at 9:09 AM, Tom C wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Good for you. Getting a free lens when you're already a Pentax user
is
>>>>> great.
>>>>>
>>>>> Pentax is being pretty cheap and backwards though. Why not give
>>>>> away a few
>>>>> camera bodies to boot? That way people that visit Pentaxian.com
>>>>> that are
>>>>> not Pentax users, if winning a body, would be introduced to Pentax
>>>>> and have
>>>>> an incentive to buy more Pentax gear.
>>>>>
>>>>> OTOH, If I went to a site like this and I was not a current Pentax
>>>>> owner,
>>>>> none of the prizes, not even a lens or a flash, would provide me the
>>>>> incentive to run out and spend money on a body to go with it.
>>>>>
>>>>> They can't afford to include a single K10D or K100D on the prize
list?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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