RE: See this? Help/Systems buys ASC

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree - that's why I'm glad I'm in development mostly and not sales 
- I can't do that kind of sales. It's been 15 years since I was 
there, so I'd probably not know who this was that was so aggressive, 
but you find those everywhere, I guess.


At 07:04 AM 10/5/2006, you wrote:

> Understood.
>
> It was like being on a used car lot and the salesman kept blocking the
> exits. <g>
>
> All it does is lose a potential future buyer.  Why would one want to go
> back?
>
> --
> Jeff Crosby
> Dilgard Frozen Foods, Inc.
> P.O. Box 13369
> Ft. Wayne, IN 46868-3369
> 260-422-7531
>
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> company.  Unless I say so.
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> > com] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:37 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: See this? Help/Systems buys ASC
> >
> > Jeff, I'd say you got a bad sales person - I worked there
> > once, and that was not typical of how things were done, to my
> > knowledge.
> >
> > Vern
> >
> > At 07:35 PM 10/4/2006, you wrote:
> >
> > >Trevor Perry wrote:
> > > > Wow, what pessimism.
> > > >
> > > > Jeff, Help Systems have a wonderful reputation for their products
> > > and their
> > > > support. I cannot think of a better vendor to buy your vendor.
> > > >
> > > > Hope you get happy soon,
> > > > Trevor
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >The amount of material and email marketing and telemarketing and
> > >trinkets and toys and junk mail and posters and whatnot they sent my
> > >way for years was a turnoff.  They just wouldn't take no for
> > an answer.
> > >Some of their phone calls were to the point of "you must not be
> > >understanding what we have to offer or you would buy".  One
> > even asked
> > >for the name of the CEO in order to talk to him to "clarify"
> > things.  I
> > >am not kidding.  Since I knew the CEO and they didn't, I let
> > them talk
> > >to him.  After he was finished with them, I never got another call.
> > >
> > >I'm not interested in going through that again.  It left a
> > really bad
> > >taste.  That's my Help/Systems experience.
> > >
> > >ASC on the other hand has been wonderful.  No complaints
> > other than I
> > >wish SEQUEL was less expensive, I'd get it in a heartbeat.
> > >
> > >Since Help/Systems is the buy_er_ and ASC the buy_ee_, I'm
> > 'pessimistic'
> > >on which culture will be supreme.
> > >
> > >--
> > >-Jeff
> > >
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