Looks like another drip in our progress, slowly working on different
companies. It would be great if soeone like this added metric to their
website, business took off as a result, the news media got hold of it and
all of a sudden everyone wants to get on the bandwagon.
It might happen,
Mike Payne
Sent: Friday, 27 June 2008 15:14
Subject: [Fwd: Re: Dimensions]
Hello,
If I make the decision to do that within the next year, I will be sure to
email you and let you know.
I can't say that your decision makes sense to me, but I must still admire
you for sticking to your principles.
Thank you,
Rick McKeithan
President,
A1A2Z, Inc.
DBA: trailershowroom.com
DBA: Carolina Liquidations
Sales Manager: 910-619-3988 (Traci)
www.trailershowroom.com
I appreciate the time you've taken out of your busy day. But as I said at
the beginning, I've made a personal commitment to only buy from businesses
that provide metric data and dimensions. I'm not in a particular hurry,
I'll be buying from a company that lists metric units on their web site.
If you do this in the next year let me know and I'll buy a trailer from
your company.
Regards,
Michael Payne
www.trailershowroom.com wrote:
Mr. Payne,
I own seven businesses located in four states. I am a very busy man
and I simply don't have the spare time to continue this conversation.
History lessons and tutorials on what percentage of the world population
that the United States makes up aside, you are still the only person in
10 years of business and literally thousands of customers for us who has
insisted that I change my format to the metric system. I am simply not
going to do it at this point. In years to come I may possible consider
doing it, but that day has not yet arrived. If you would like to order a
trailer, please tell me the size that you are interested in. If you
don't want to place an order with us, then I wish you the best of luck
in your quest for a vender who is on the metric system.
Thank you,
Rick McKeithan
President,
A1A2Z, Inc.
DBA: trailershowroom.com
DBA: Carolina Liquidations
Sales Manager: 910-619-3988 (Traci)
www.trailershowroom.com
Thanks for your long reply, It might surprise you to learn that the
Metric is the preferred system US trade and commerce.
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/laws/metric-act.html
Just as Arabic numerals 1,2,3, etc. replaced I II III, etc., the metric
system has replaced measurement in every country on this planet except
the US, where the news media changes (censors out) all reference to the
original unit. Thomas Jefferson came up with the idea for (metric) US
Dollars and cents during his time in France from 1785 to 1789, he
proposed his own metric system for the United States, one idea was
accepted, the other was not. You can read the history of the metric
system in the US at www.metric.org. and on Jefferson's writing on
measurement at http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl212.htm
I'm proud to be American and to live here, I also prefer to see America
thrive in a world economy. We have an enormous trade deficit, Germany
has high labor costs and many labor benefits, but a trade surplus as do
many other countries. I happen to think one reason for this is our use
of an archaic Roman system of measurement not used anywhere else. I'm
not encouraging you to dump inches, I'm encouraging you to include both
units to appeal to the widest possible customer base. Anyone in the
world can access your web site. Given the choice, someone in another
country seeing millimeters on one web site and inches on another will
chose the metric one, will you know about their choice? Probably not!
I've not seen anyone wanting to convert back to the older systems, the
metric system is too simple and integrated, one normal comment is WOW,
I can't believe it took me so long to use this.
Just as you found it a pain to convert currency in Europe I find it a
pain to convert inches to millimeters. Now that most of Europe has one
currency (the Euro) conversion is a pain of the past, the same analogy
can be used for measurement, now that everyone (except us) use the same
system of measurement, conversion is a thing of the past.
Wishing your business success in the future.
Michael Payne
Potomac Falls VA 20165
www.trailershowroom.com wrote:
Hello,
All that I am trying to tell you is that in 10 years of being in
business, you are the first customer who has ever asked me for a
metric measurement; and I do business with people in European
countries on a regular basis. I went out of my way to send you a
conversion tool. I even told you that if you couldn't get the
conversion tool to work, that if you would tell me the size trailer
that you needed, I would do the calculation myself and send it to
you.......but that wasn't good enough for you.
I'm sorry that you apparently seem to have some sort of issue with
America and our way of life, but I am proud to live here and to be an
American. I don't much care what the rest of the world is doing, what
they think, or what they say. I don't live in the rest of the world.
America has been good to me and I don't see that I should take my
marching orders from the "rest of the world". Though I do care what my
customers think, I am absolutely sure that I will not make my business
policy based on what 1 customer out of 10,000 wants me to do.
I lived in Europe for 2 years and yes it was a pain for me to do the
conversions from dollars to European currency; but I was in their
country (Germany) so I had to do things their way. You are in the
United States, so maybe you should consider doing things our way.
Again.........if you will tell me what size trailer that you need
(either in standard or metric form), I will do the conversion for you.
If you want to make some sort of idealistic statement against the
American way of doing things (our standard system of measurement) and
refuse to buy from us until we do things in a more "European way",
then you will need to buy elsewhere. I would like to have your
business, but I really don't "need" it.
Thank you,
Rick McKeithan
President,
A1A2Z, Inc.
DBA: trailershowroom.com
DBA: Carolina Liquidations
Sales Manager: 910-619-3988 (Traci)
www.trailershowroom.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Dimensions
I hate to tell you American Dollars were the first metric money
system in the world. If they had 12 or 16 cents to the Dollar you'd
find it a real pain in the neck unless you'd used it all your life
then it would work just fine.
www.trailershowroom.com wrote:
Hello,
I do 6.5 million dollars a year in business......those aren't metric
dollars. They are standard American dollars.
Keep your money........in 10 years of business and I ship trailers
to Canada, Mexico, The Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Maartin, Sweden,
Germany, and Russia. You are the first customer who has ever asked
for metric measurements.
Thank you,
Rick McKeithan
President,
A1A2Z, Inc.
DBA: trailershowroom.com
DBA: Carolina Liquidations
Sales Manager: 910-619-3988 (Traci)
www.trailershowroom.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Dimensions
If you don't have the metric dimensions I'm afraid you'll lose my
business. I should not have to convert anything, if I need
information you should provide it. I really need a covered trailer
but will only buy one with metric specifications supplied.
The USA constitutes 4% of world population, the other 96% use only
the metric system, you are not supplying 96% of your potential
customers with information they need!
Regards,
Michael Payne
1 Thorton Court
Potomac Falls VA 20165
www.trailershowroom.com wrote:
Mr. Payne,
I'm sorry but we do not offer dimensions in the metric scale.
You can use the attached program to do all of the conversions.
Just click on the file attachment or save it to your desktop to
run it. It is a conversion calculator.
If you have trouble opening the attachment, just tell me what size
trailer that you need and I will do the calculations for you.
Thank you,
Rick McKeithan
President,
A1A2Z, Inc.
DBA: trailershowroom.com
DBA: Carolina Liquidations
Sales Manager: 910-619-3988 (Traci)
www.trailershowroom.com
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:54 PM
Subject: Dimensions
Hi,
Do you have any brochure that list the dimensions in meters or
millimeters? Plus what do these trailers weight in kg?
Michael Payne
1 Thorton Court
Potomac Falls VA 20165
703 404 2715
