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To: Ahda who wrote (24000)	7/26/2000 12:36:01 PM
From: Michaelth1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

<Umg made it in this area because they gave customers the best service they could on their installs.> What makes you think that UMG "made it" in BB? The great service on installs will still be a (often times free) option for BB subs. Also, those who self-install and screw up, can pay for the great customer service on fixing their situation. Those subs will have no one to blame but themselves for the screw up since they had another option open to them.

To: Ahda who wrote (24000)	7/26/2000 1:04:40 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

You have stated the secret behind what makes a brand. No one else on this thread ever could get to that. And now we have the latest clown coming on here claiming the way to success is "damn the torpedos, full speed ahead". This is the short-sighted expediency that sinks any company. A company scrambles for share and ends up with large shares of cost, and brand is sacrificed. Not that ATHM cares since they have become chameleon of image. They'll be anything you want them to be as long it is nothing. What else can one expects from a brand like, "Excide - Cheato"? Besides, the big brand exponent is now short the brand. On this thread the short term result has always been extolled. Whether that was anti-OA anti-Pure, anti-facilitation, pro-Excide to fend off the non-existent competition from AOL, or pro-Att to pump up the stock, it has presaged disaster. The thread couldn't care less about the company. The company doesn't make the stock go they think. Instead, they think it takes touts and tips from experts and analysts, but as usual, all the king's horses couldn't make the stock go. This thread mimics the behavior of company management which is a rolling disaster careering out of control from one desperate failure to the next. At the end of this Mad Hatter's wild ride is the Queen of Spades and her ax man, CMA.