William Robb wrote:
Tom, I think you are being a bit unfair.
It's pretty obvious to me that Marco was doing this on a bit of a lark. As
soon as it became apparent that he was going to have to involve the legal
team, I would guess that it became more trouble than it was worth.
Possibly. I'm picking on the words "more trouble than it's worth". Oh my
pictures are more trouble than it's worth? Your pictures are more trouble
than it's worth?
My perception (probably incorrectly) at the outset and I think others was,
that this was more or less Pentax Canada asking for these pictures. So when
a person who previously requested photos and as a practical matter was
representing Pentax Canada, says it's more trouble than it's worth... well I
tend to have a pretty thick skin, but this in particular bothers me.
As a side point, when I did that little Syncronicity gallery there were a
small handful of people that got somewhat rude about it not being finished
as quickly as they liked. I was ready to either say
forget it or just throw them up on photo.net. But that's not what I said I
would do and and I didn't back out of it because a minority of people made
me mad or hurt my feelings. :-(
Now if Marco decided that the legal department of Pentax Canada was going to
need to be involved and it would be too timely an undertaking, or if his
superiors decided that this was not what they wanted to do, that's fine.
Then present that information acccurately. 'After further consideration
it's been decided to withdraw the request due to circumstances beyond my
control'. That would be a palatable statement.
Tom C.
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Subject: Re: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 06:45:13 -0600
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C"
Subject: Re: Pentax Wants Your Digital Pix
More than anything else, regardless of how it was handled, the withdrawing
of the request simply because there were a number of rude people and
saying 'it's more trouble than it's worth' when the images were being
offered gratis, devalues Pentax's clientele. It devalues those who were
not rude. It devalues the images that were presented, and it devalues the
work that was done by some to prepare the images.
If those images he might have gotten were 'not worth' the effort of
deleting a couple of rude e-mails, or a hundred rude e-mails, then I'm
happy that I didn't waste my time for something that was 'not worth it'.
Tom, I think you are being a bit unfair.
It's pretty obvious to me that Marco was doing this on a bit of a lark. As
soon as it became apparent that he was going to have to involve the legal
team, I would guess that it became more trouble than it was worth.
William Robb
