Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:00:41 -0500, Roy J. Tellason  
<rtellason@...> wrote:

>
> Not so.  There are a lot more of us than there are of them.

I'm not so sure. I surely get over 50% spam counting what the filter  
catches, so there are more
evil people than good people ;-)

> It doesn't take
> too much stupidity on their part to get on a list,  or several.  It's  
> called
> "reputation".  I've been in business,  and it takes a certain amount of
> nontrivial effort to acquire one single customer,  and if you're *really*
> good and *really* lucky that customer will refer others to you (we  
> tracked
> where people heard about us and a lot were referred by friends and
> acquaintances).  OTOH,  if somebody is unhappy with someone that they do
> business with,  they'll tell at least 20 other people,  and you'll never  
> see
> them as customers.  A negative impact like that is much harder to  
> overcome...

You are talking "good old honest business laws" there. That's not how  
things are run nowadays.
There are many millions of potential customers out there which they can  
reach with their lies. even if 20% know they are bad business it doesn't  
change much. When they have got some money and when the  
complaints/liabilities get too much they just close up that one shop (more  
likely sell it) and open up another one (which needn't even have to do  
something with PCBs).

Do you really think a company doing that sort of marketing (and honestly,  
which marketing isn't lies??) relies on a good reputation? They don't care  
if you tell 100 people, they will just sign up to a group with another  
1000.

ST