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12-09-2005, 02:17 PM
Pretty darned clever, but it really ticked me off:
So I was at the library and hit "print" for an item. (Print copies are sixteen cents a page.)
I picked up my copy and my document was printed on top of... some weird.... what is it...? It's an.... it's an ad for some beauty shop that's having a grand opening. that's weird...
I checked the printer, and, sure enough -- someone had loaded the printer with flyers for this beauty shop. Unfortunately, they loaded them face up instead of face down, so instead of a person's document printing nice and neat and then -- oh, look! -- an advertisement on the back! -- it prints the person's document right on top of the ad, thereby making the ad and the document pretty worthless.
The lady at the library desk says they can't refund for copies unless the printer jams. I handed her the stack of flyers and suggested someone from the library call this place and ask them not to load library printers with their advertising.
1) yes, it's entirely circumstantial evidence; the salon may have had absolutely no connection with their flyers being loaded into the library printers;
2) yes, it's very clever. I must admit that. I wouldn't have thought of spreading my company's flyers around this way. Maybe they even hired some kid to post flyers everywhere and agreed to pay him or her by the flyer, and this was how he or she dumped 1000 of them. I don't know; I've heard that people delivering freebie newspapers do that sort of thing sometimes -- load up their trucks and dump 'em by the railroad tracks.
It's just not cool. It's like SPAM -- more of an assault than an ad, really.
So I was at the library and hit "print" for an item. (Print copies are sixteen cents a page.)
I picked up my copy and my document was printed on top of... some weird.... what is it...? It's an.... it's an ad for some beauty shop that's having a grand opening. that's weird...
I checked the printer, and, sure enough -- someone had loaded the printer with flyers for this beauty shop. Unfortunately, they loaded them face up instead of face down, so instead of a person's document printing nice and neat and then -- oh, look! -- an advertisement on the back! -- it prints the person's document right on top of the ad, thereby making the ad and the document pretty worthless.
The lady at the library desk says they can't refund for copies unless the printer jams. I handed her the stack of flyers and suggested someone from the library call this place and ask them not to load library printers with their advertising.
1) yes, it's entirely circumstantial evidence; the salon may have had absolutely no connection with their flyers being loaded into the library printers;
2) yes, it's very clever. I must admit that. I wouldn't have thought of spreading my company's flyers around this way. Maybe they even hired some kid to post flyers everywhere and agreed to pay him or her by the flyer, and this was how he or she dumped 1000 of them. I don't know; I've heard that people delivering freebie newspapers do that sort of thing sometimes -- load up their trucks and dump 'em by the railroad tracks.
It's just not cool. It's like SPAM -- more of an assault than an ad, really.