Re: another reason for auto warehousing to switch?


"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:alangbaker-A3AE3B.15084627072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <__mdnUYSkbF59jfbnZ2dnUVZ_h2pnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:alangbaker-BC5DE3.15022227072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <v7ednVGEyNA79zfbnZ2dnUVZ_s6mnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "PC Guy" <pcguy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> "Alan Baker" <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:alangbaker-F8F574.14545327072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > In article <jMtqi.46173$YL5.33722@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> > "ed" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:jim-230398.09494927072007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > http://www.macnewsworld.com/rsstory/58527.html
>> >> <snip>
>> >>
>> >> going a quick google search, from May '06:
>> >> 'AWC was contacted several weeks ago by Janet Lawless, a software
>> >> asset
>> >> management engagement manager at Microsoft, who claimed that "a
>> >> preliminary
>> >> review of [AWC's software licensing] information indicates that >> >> your
>> >> company
>> >> may not be licensed properly...Frantz had no doubt that he was 100%
>> >> compliant. When he told Lawless that, she ratcheted up the >> >> threatening
>> >> tone
>> >> of her e-mail correspondence."'
>> >>
>> >> i suspect there's a lot of politicing goingon here... ;D
>> >
>> > I suspect that it pissed him off enough to start thinking about >> > other
>> > solutions, anyway.
>>
>> You suspect wrong as he clearly stated that issue was not a factor:
>>
>> "This is not a vengeance case," Frantz says, referring to his 2006 >> tangle
>> with Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) over threatening letters from the >> vendor
>> that
>> made false accusations about unlicensed software."
>
> That doesn't refute what I said.

Yes, it does.

> Someone has an irritating experience with a supplier that prompts them
> to wonder if maybe the irritations aren't worth what they're getting.

It's then a case of vengence.

> They investigate and discover that there are better solutions out > there.
>
> If they then decide to implement changes, does that make it a vengeance
> case, PC Guy?

Yes. If it was the catalyst that started him looking at alternatives.

So if I decide to stop buying -- say -- Fords because I don't like the
service at the local dealership and I've discovered that I can get
better value from -- say -- Honda, I'm taking *vengeance* on Ford?

No you've got it. That didn't take too long.

.

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