There is no conspiracy.
Okay, after a fair amount of interest in my "Improving Aphrodite" post from the other day, I made it public, and I'm happy to see so many people as piqued by the injustice to art and anatomy as I was
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Those people (the ones wanting to write emails) were never gonna buy a statuette in the first place. What happens if I spread that contact info? The whole company is probably three guys with a contact in China and a small warehouse in NJ or somewhere: they open up the company email this morning and find 8000 emails of outrage from anonymous people on the internet. A moment of shock goes through the company. "What? Somebody is criticizing our product on some blog somewhere?"
Then, a funny thing happens...the week goes on, and sales of their products remain exactly the same as they were before. Because all those people who were outraged were never going to buy their products in the first place. Nobody cares if they ever do in the future, either.
It's like those pathetic "don't buy gas next Thursday" email "boycotts" that went around. The gas companies don't care, because all those millions of people forwarding the email are still going to be tanking up on Wednesday and Friday. The email does nothing but make people feel good...because they were able to ignore the real solution.
What I'm saying in a nutshell: businesses don't care what you say with your mouth, or in an email. They care how you spend your money. We all can get that now and use it our advantage (over any issue we care about), or we can send emails, if it makes us feel better...but that's all those emails will ever do.
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First, I am a "businessman", if they come in only the male variety. Secondly, I am far, far too accustomed to hearing customers say "I prefer A" while shelling out money for B. Sometimes the words are actually still coming out of their mouths as they reach for their wallets to prove otherwise. What do I, as a "businessman", do? I go reorder more B.
If I get an angry email saying the customer demands more A, I go check the inventory. If the shelves are still full of the A that hasn't moved in weeks, and B has been reordered three times this week alone, what do I do then? I hit "delete" on the email, and keep reordering B with a shrug. It's not that hard a decision. People say one thing and do another all of the time. When it's with a product (as this discussion is), we listen to the wallets, not the mouths. [There is, however, a point at which those emails could be useful, in the product-development stage, but nobody's even wondered about that, yet, and frankly, given the lack of people in this thread who are actually in the market for wholesale plastic Venus statuettes, it's pretty much irrelevant.]
But you don't have to believe me. Keep sending emails. The "delete" key is just as easy for other "businessmen" to handle as it is for me.
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I'm not sure, re-reading, what point you're trying to make, as I notice you're not one of the people who were asking for contact info...which makes my reply even less relevant, in addition to showing how tired I've grown of this. My apologies.
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