bringing the light to a dark world...

[krossfyter]

count me in... i forgot about that.

i could use hellalot of them little apple booklets. i could pass them around to different peeps as well as laying them in best buy or circuit city...etc. etc.

im serious as cancer...to use an overly used phrase.

 

[krossfyter]

ensign....

your story.... we would like to hear it!

 

[irmongoose]

Originally posted by ptrauber
Well, I'm in on this little plan. As you all know by now, I work for CompUSA, and I can have a basically unlimited resource to those little books. How many do you need?

-Pete

Do you mind shipping internationally?



Hey krossfyter, your story reminds me of something...

Well, my dad owns a restaurant here in Tokyo, and about 20 years ago, when we just opened our business, we accepted 2 credit cards: Visa and Mastercard.

So one day, along come 6 American guys in suits, and they eat, and it all goes well. Then when they came to the cashier, they see only two credit card signs: visa and mastercard.

Then, they all swiftly take out their wallets, take our their American Espress cards, and start shouting to my dad.

"What is this? We have an American Express card! And we can't pay with this?'

my dad: "No, im sorry, but we do not currently accept American Express cards."

"HOW CAN YOU RUN A RESTAURANT WITHOUT ACCEPTING AN AMERICAN EXPRESS CARD? DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE USE AMERICAN EXPRESS?"

my dad: "im sorry, sir. you can pay by cash."

"CASH? Why would we pay by cash when we have an AMERICAN EXPRESS card?"



well, eventually they paid by cash and left. and you know what? the next day, my dad called up the American Express people, and got the American Express machine.


Later, my dad learned that those men worked for American Express.




irmongoose

 

[krossfyter]

hmmm

so your saying...

if we get enough people to go to these mac less stores and ask them if they have any macs and walk out because they dont then eventually they are going to have to sell macs?

well that would work if there were enough people...i guess.

doesnt apple have a problem with best buy or circuit city selling mac stuff thats why there is no more contract(circuit city) or one at all (best buy)?
so even if enough people did this...apple would never sell thier macs through these stores? am i right?

forgive me if i mis interpreted your story.

 

[irmongoose]

hmm, i didnt know anything about Apple having prblems with those stores (because I dont live in America!)

but, i was just sharing a story of mine... i was just saying how American Express maybe did these kinds of things to grow into such a big company.


well, if placing little panphlets in a strictly-windows environment works, why wouldnt this?




irmongooose

 

[krossfyter]

im not sure if either will work. im just giving the booklet tactic one a shot for now.
unitil i know the skinny on why these non mac stores dont have macs and why there is a lack of apple business with them... i wont try the other one.

 

[jefhatfield]

Re: Nope.

Originally posted by mischief
Damn close though. The Wookie had the bike. I was kinda Han Solo to his Chewbacca. Smaller (poundage wise) faster and more HW than SW oriented. The Wookie wound up going off to Ireland for a while......I've mentioned the guy he was working for in other threads as a source of Apple info. That fell through when said Boss had a psychotic episode in front of his Capitalists. Oops. We're both kinda cheezed at the guy 'cause Wookie's my best friend and missed my wedding 'cause he was in Ireland.

ComputerWare closed, sold off it's assets, laid off it's employees and the top 4 guys sold out to Elite. They're back up in 4 locations as "Computerware by Elite". Barf. I had just transitioned to CAD and was training the newbies for Lisa before leaving for good. The Wookie was less fortunate......he's still unemployed. Would you be interested in a Techie consortium?

The Gaming business was ours. We have been refining the concept for a year. At some point we'll need newer machines to write the code and time to write it.

yeah, a consortium would be cool...my wife and i always go to santa cruz...i got trained there at sst networking (pc side though) santa cruz is as far into high tech ville that i usually like to travel...over the hill into the heart of the valley is really scary (hwy 17)

i remember the wookie and i didn't know that you were his partner in the gaming thing...he is the only person i remember outside of a guy that was a manager who seemed thin and about twenty something and was there sometimes...the other people at computereware i know i must have spoken to but i can't place faces and names...i think there was one lady that used to be in the back office (owner?) and she was middle aged like me, maybe 40 or a little older...i used to also go to the goodwill there and offshore music

 

[krossfyter]

ptrauber...you are needed!