quoted 1 line I qualify why e-toys sucks:
>I qualify why e-toys sucks:
to further qualify:
[from
http://www.toywar.com]
THE TOYWAR-STORY: the TOYWAR.com resistance game was launched to
protect etoy from aggressive take-over attempts and to win the
historic domain name battle between the etoy.CORPORATION (legendary
internet art giant, incorporated 1994) and eToys Inc. (one of the
biggest e-commerce companies, incorporated 1996). after the
etoy.SHAREHOLDERS (art collectors and fans) rejected a ridiculous
offer of $516,000 for the eBRAND etoy.com (registered for
experimental entertainment and cultural business operations), eToys
Inc. filed a naive lawsuit against etoy. the toy retailer accused
etoy of unfair competition, trademark delusion, security fraud,
illegal stock market operation, pornographic content, offensive
behaviour and terrorist activity.
this strategy failed terribly: etoy, specializing in and awarded for
surreal incubations, cultural viruses and impact management decided
to strike back and turned the case into a toy harbor of e-commerce:
1798 activists, artists, lawyers, celebrities and journalists were
selected and recruited between november 1999 and february 2000 to
establish a playful toy army. TOYWAR worked like a swarm of bees.
hundreds of well-informed people and media experts contested the
aggressor on every level (filing counter court cases, infiltrating
customer service, pr departments, the press, investor news groups and
also on the level of federal trade commission etc.). more than 300
articles (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, CNN)
reported the story and 250 resistance sites and net-shelters were
established. result: within 2 months the eToys Inc. stock (NASDAQ:
ETYS) dropped from $67 (the day the battle started) to $15 (the day
eToys Inc. finally dropped the case). TOYWAR was the most expensive
performance in art history: $4.5 billion in damage! a glorious
victory for the etoy.CORPORATION which compensated activists with
etoy.SHARES: in march 2000 hundreds of brave TOY.soldiers transformed
into etoy.CO-OWNERS with voting rights.
karma's a bitch...
quoted 69 lines I just got an e-mail from them saying that my electronic mega
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>I just got an e-mail from them saying that my electronic mega
>cheetor has been delayed.
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>Nuff said
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>Rob
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>From: adam florin <aeflo@brown.edu>
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>Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:32 AM
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>> i don't even sell toys and i suck.
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>> .af.
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>> At 22:45 -0600 01.16.2001, Andrew Hime wrote:
>> > >What the fuck ?
>> >>
>> >>Why do people on this list have to make things personal, and make totally
>> >>unfounded insults?
>> >>
>> >>Here is conversation:
>> >>
>> >>A: check this out! it's cool!
>> >>B: the shop that's having the going out of business sale is really lame
>> >>C: I bet you eat monkeys and you smell
>> >>
>> >>Wouldn't it work just to say "Etoys is just an evil as the
>>Amazon.com/Toy's
>> >>R Us alliance, or many other retailers"? (hopefully with some reasons for
>> >>feeling this way). ...rather than stating something in a personal way?
>> >
>> >
>> >I work in retail right now, so I can safely say that almost everyone sucks.
>> >
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>> ps; this post is dumb but nobody replies when i say interesting
>>things. blah !
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