Steve,
I also found these guys are better talkers and writers then me!
I was always the guy in the back room doing the real work. It was a
tough leap for me to come out in the open and start a website. Other
people's website look better than mine. In the long run I sold more
plans and have more completed machines than all of them combined. Oh
yea! I just remembered! I sell a student mill/drill made out of MDF
that can be built for under $100. The problem is the booklet is so
long I have to charge $40 for it. Very few have ordered it yet several
teachers requested the project. I guess Steve, you and I need to work
in the background with a really slick guy handling the customers.
John
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <alienrelics@...> wrote:
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "crankorgan" <john@> wrote:
> >
> > Steve,
> > What got me is the MOTORSPINNERS! would insult the people who
> > were actually building something. One guy was a "Motor Driver
> > Expert".(MDE)All his messages were about how great these certain
> > drivers were. When it came time he hooked his up wrong and blew them
> > out. Then there are the guys who tell you how to run your Internet
> > business. Their websites have less hits and their ranking is lower.
> > Talk is cheap! During the peak of 2003 I was answering over 100 emails
> > per day. That's why my website has that nasty tone. Without rules you
> > become swamped with people asking questions that have nothing to do
> > with what you are selling. Some guys would write pages about how their
> > wife would not let them buy anything. I would have to read through
> > these letters looking for questions. Some got angry at me for not
> > answering questions they left out. At some point I wised up! People
> > who tell me to be nicer don't have the same volume of customers. They
> > play make beleive just like some of the customers.
>
> I get emails asking me how to composite photos, what software to buy,
> which computer, which camera, basically they want me to train them
> (for free) to be my competition. Sometimes they pretend to be writing
> a paper for college. I'm not really the right person to ask, as
> Polymorph hasn't exactly been a rousing success. I suck as a salesman.
>
> When we were taking it to sci fi conventions, there were always a few
> who'd stop by just to pick apart what we did and tell us how much
> better they could do what we do. One guy showed up to do this at
> -every- convention and started showing up at our studio on a regular
> basis. I'd just let him go on and on. He never had his portfolio, for
> 2 years it was "in storage" after his move, but according to him he is
> an expert although he was vague and confused about whether he was
> using Windows, Mac, or Amiga. But he kept calling Photoshop some other
> name, Photosomething although he clearly meant Photoshop.
>
> Then one day he asked me what modem I had in my computer. Me: Excuse
> me? Him: You know, what modem do you have for Photoshot. Me: Modem for
> Photoshop? I don't use Photoshop, but what does a modem have to do
> with it? Him: You know, how fast a modem do you use with Photoclock?
> Me: Uh, modems have nothing at all to do with using Photoshop or any
> other image editor. - At that point he finally had the sense to turn
> beet red and leave, and we never saw him again.
>
> Steve Greenfield
>