MGD opened this issue on May 01, 2004 ยท 11 posts
Wolfsnap posted Sun, 02 May 2004 at 10:57 PM
LOL - Because you can't have 'NEW" and "IMPROVED" at the same time. If it's "NEW" - than how can it be an "IMPROVED" product. And if it's 'IMPROVED", it must be an older product - thus it cannot be 'NEW" (OK - Old joke) An old story - forgive me if I get my numbers wrong: While I was working at the local camera store - Polaroid stopped producing Polaroid type 664 (again - not sure of the number - this was 15 years ago or so) - and replaced it with Polapan 100. We had a load of customers who used the 664 - and were hesitant to go to the Polapan 100 - to the point that we contacted Polaroid, and they said that the Polapan 100 was the identical emulsion that the 664 was - just new packaging. After showing the customers the sheet from Polaroid - most of them accepted it....with the exception of one. he came in about closing time to pick up his order of 664 - but when he saw Polapan 100, he went into a Hallelujah Conniption. he found out that there was a couple of boxes of 664 in out Greensboro store (20 miles away) - and he said to me (verbatim - "This is what you're going to do - you're going to go to Greensboro and pick up those boxes and deliver them to my studio or my business here is though!" To which I said, "Well, it was nice doing business with you while it lasted - you gotta do what you gotta do....I'm not a delivery man!" Oh - it gets better! After that, he went ahead and took the Polapan - but came back the next day (after shooting half the box) with a couple of rent-a-cops wanting his 664, threatening to sue because he was given "the wrong thing" - and wanting his "money" back for the Polapan (He had charged it to his account AFTER the initial argument) - but he had shot half the box! Now, personally - I love Rent-A Cops - because they sat there and listened to the entire scenario, and wound up threatening to take HIM in! (For fraudulent something-or-nother....maybe just for being a whiner)