It's a good idea in theory, unfortunately it doesn't work very well if you approach it one consumer at a time. If one really wants to get the company's attention, one should do so collectively.
The problem is that these companies get tons of email from consumers and most of them can't or don't bother responding to each and every piece of mail, other than a canned bullshit response. And even if they do make an honest reply, the chance that it will work its way up the corporate food chain to some big fish who can actually effect some change becomes diminishingly small.
It is better than not doing anything, but if you want to make a change you have to work with dozens, hundreds or thousands of similarly angry consumers. This is becoming easier in this internet world. What we really need is a clearing house web site that specialises in mobilising against these big stupid jerky corporate entities that juust don't get it; beyond the bottom line, at least.
If thousands of consumers stop buying their products collectively because of this sort of nonsense, it may reflect on their bottom line, and they may get the point more powerfully.
Of course, the MPAA or RIAA will just blame the shitty sales on pirates, but if there is a single clearinghouse of consumer complaint that can lobby against the FUD of the corporatists, something might actually be done.
This is a very clever idea, and I write this as someone who dispises (for a multitude of reasons that I won't go into now) Micro$oft.
Somebody mod this poster up.
A very good test to determine whether there is a god,
Personally, I would think an atheist would approve of the religious
trappings of the Bush inaugural. If Bush takes the oath of office with
his hand on a Bible and is not struck by lightning, that's proof there
is no God. -- www.mahablog.com
The good thing about this particular test is that, either way, we win.
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The problem is that these companies get tons of email from consumers and most of them can't or don't bother responding to each and every piece of mail, other than a canned bullshit response. And even if they do make an honest reply, the chance that it will work its way up the corporate food chain to some big fish who can actually effect some change becomes diminishingly small.
It is better than not doing anything, but if you want to make a change you have to work with dozens, hundreds or thousands of similarly angry consumers. This is becoming easier in this internet world. What we really need is a clearing house web site that specialises in mobilising against these big stupid jerky corporate entities that juust don't get it; beyond the bottom line, at least.
If thousands of consumers stop buying their products collectively because of this sort of nonsense, it may reflect on their bottom line, and they may get the point more powerfully.
Of course, the MPAA or RIAA will just blame the shitty sales on pirates, but if there is a single clearinghouse of consumer complaint that can lobby against the FUD of the corporatists, something might actually be done.
This is a very clever idea, and I write this as someone who dispises (for a multitude of reasons that I won't go into now) Micro$oft. Somebody mod this poster up.
Funny. Yast is the reason I dispise using SuSE. That and the annoying SuSE capitalisation.
Salut,
Jacques