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. > > > > >> From: Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> 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. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>>> 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? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > > > > -- Remember, it’s pillage then burn. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
