Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore already has THE BEST AD for MultiMedia!! Message-ID: <1990Oct17.165611.21133@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 17 Oct 90 16:56:11 GMT References: <1164@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> <15113@cbmvax.commodore.com> Distribution: na Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 31 diamond@cbmvax.commodore.com (Howard Diamond - Ed Marketing) writes: [Ye, gods, Howard, take the time to trim your article inclusions; we've all read it once, keep only the useful parts!] >>I asked the Commodore >>rep if I could make a video tape copy of this to show the video >>group I am in at the University of Florida (Crosscut Film and >>Video Society). [...] However, the rep stated >>that he had signed a form prohibiting him from distributing >>any part of this demo. >Glad you liked it.....what you saw was an edited version of the piece >that was put together for the A3000 launch. We are making it available >to all of our dealers (through the POS system) and the sales force will >also be able to show it at appropriate customer situations. May I decry the bonehead stupidity of forbidding dealers from handing out copies? WHAT HAS COMMODORE GOT AGAINST FREE ADVERTISING? Is your sales line going to plummet because user groups start showing Amiga 500 owners what the A3000 can do? We don't ask much out here, Howard, but the tiniest evidence of a shred of thought would be so pleasant for a change. How about going back and telling dealers that the _prime_ _purpose_ of that video is so they can pass it on, not so they can restrict showings to the few customers who will sit still for an in-showroom viewing. I'm sure the control freaks among them will be mollified by the resulting flood of customers come to see more. Kent, the man from xanth.