[G4] Apple's New G5 Marketing Approach

[Sean O'Malley]

Are is there really a backlog of orders for 2 months? are the shipping
dates ending on oct 31 now?
*curious*

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, jgvp wrote:

>
> A very odd incident occurred yesterday evening. My wife called me to
> the phone as Eric of Apple wished to speak to me. Not having
> communicated in any way with Apple recently, I was intrigued with why
> they would want to phone me. Eric stated: " I hear you're thinking
> about buying a G5 ?" I replied "Yes, you're right about that, at the
> moment I just happen to be thinking about it !"
> Naturally, you have thoughts running through your head such as: "where
> did he get this kind of information from ? However, whenever I asked
> such a question, I would hear Eric say " this line is breaking up, I
> couldn't hear what you just said properly." I wasn't using my cellular
> so any break up must have been caused at his end (?). Since we weren't
> getting anywhere in this kind of scenario, I let Eric know that I have
> a favourite retailer from whom I now buy all things Apple. He replied
> that I should bear in mind that any orders placed now are running two
> to two-and-a-half months late. When I replied that I would bear that in
> mind the connection finally ended with the disconnect sound.
>
> Now, I have no way of knowing whether this was some sort of joke or
> not, but my call display indicated that the call originated from
> Unknown name at 1-916-399-7992, a long distance call from California of
> all places. Since the number of orders for the G5 is such that there is
> a back-log of >2 months, why would Apple see a need to seek additional
> sales by using techniques that, so far as I am concerned, are rather
> extraordinary to say the least ?
>
>
>
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