Comments on: Making Buying Impossible http://youngandemployed.com/2010/02/16/making-buy-impossible/ Perspectives on business from young marketing and public relations professionals Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:23:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jose http://youngandemployed.com/2010/02/16/making-buy-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Jose Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:09:02 +0000 http://youngandemployed.com/2010/02/16/making-buy-impossible/#comment-246 Some random ideas: 1) The call to the manager. It may be difficult. But it is a good idea - not for the firing part. Sometimes the manager phone is not on the web - they re-direct you to the closest sales representative. You can always try to call as if you are in different office location (lets say, an office in Florida). Maybe if you get a different sales rep and explain to him that his co-worker didn't did his/her job but you still want to learn more about their product you will find a more competent salesguy. 2) Find their reseller. Maybe they do have an indirect channel. 3) Find their product used, on ebay. Don't laught - sometimes it can be found. A few scratches, but at deep discount. Have done so. 4) Tweet about it. Some companies pay someone to watch to negative tweeting about a company and they try to respond to it. If they don't -- maybe they should pay for their insolence for not watching their online image. 5) Competition is not such a bad idea. Some products do deserve being bought from the competition. Maybe you can research if there is something different or even better out there. At least you may get some service when you need it. 6) Call the small guy. Some small firms can custom build tools for the same price as a new one from big company. And they will do it with a smile and will beg you to keep doing business with them. Now the fun thing is that you seem to think I go around like Beavis and Butthead chanting <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-head#Fire.21_Fire.21" rel="nofollow">Fire, Fire, hehe, Fire, Fire.</a>. On the contrary... I just go around chanting: "When in doubt, Don't hire, Don't hire.", or I should say: <b><i>Only hire the very best, and correct your mistakes early.</b></i> Some random ideas:
1) The call to the manager. It may be difficult. But it is a good idea – not for the firing part. Sometimes the manager phone is not on the web – they re-direct you to the closest sales representative. You can always try to call as if you are in different office location (lets say, an office in Florida). Maybe if you get a different sales rep and explain to him that his co-worker didn’t did his/her job but you still want to learn more about their product you will find a more competent salesguy.
2) Find their reseller. Maybe they do have an indirect channel.
3) Find their product used, on ebay. Don’t laught – sometimes it can be found. A few scratches, but at deep discount. Have done so.
4) Tweet about it. Some companies pay someone to watch to negative tweeting about a company and they try to respond to it. If they don’t — maybe they should pay for their insolence for not watching their online image.
5) Competition is not such a bad idea. Some products do deserve being bought from the competition. Maybe you can research if there is something different or even better out there. At least you may get some service when you need it.
6) Call the small guy. Some small firms can custom build tools for the same price as a new one from big company. And they will do it with a smile and will beg you to keep doing business with them.

Now the fun thing is that you seem to think I go around like Beavis and Butthead chanting Fire, Fire, hehe, Fire, Fire.. On the contrary… I just go around chanting: “When in doubt, Don’t hire, Don’t hire.”, or I should say: Only hire the very best, and correct your mistakes early.

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