Originally Posted by
Richards
Jeff,
Getting to the implied GROUND vs actual ROLLED question, it reminds me of the time that I went shopping thirty-five years ago for a diamond engagement ring for my future wife. I was as poor then as I am now, but I still wanted to get her a nice ring. One jeweller suggested that I buy a diamond with lots of flaws, because nobody would know but him and me. He INFERED that making someone believe that he/she was getting more than he/she was actually getting was a perfectly sound way to run a business. I went elsewhere and bought a stone that was as perfect as I could afford and as large as I could afford, knowing that the stone reflected a lot more than its price. INFERING something, intentionally, in any merchandising with the goal being to make the potential customer believe he/she is getting something better than is being offered makes no sense to me. NOTE: I'm not implying that Tormach's literature is misleading, it may have been an easily corrected oversite on the part of the proof-reader, but if that inference remains in the literature, then I'd be wondering why.:devious:
What is comes down to, in my mind, is that some advertising concentrates on the sizzle and some concentrates on the steak. Since this is a forum where we're all supposed to be analytical and somewhat anal (otherwise we'd be content to hack at metal with hammers, hack saws and files), it would seem that any advertising should clearly and carefully list the components and capabilities of the machines. After all, bad news travels much faster than good news - at least when it's about me.