Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!slb From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: New Coke Message-ID: <3116@drutx.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 14:33:10 EDT Article-I.D.: drutx.3116 Posted: Wed Jun 26 14:33:10 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:34:07 EDT Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 58 > >Actually, the way Coke is handling complaints is fairly revealing. If >someone calls up their toll-free number to complain about the taste, they >give him or her some coupons for some free Coke. According to their >marketing representative, who was interviewed recently in the local >newspaper, Coke only counts the call as being negative if the person won't >take the coupons. > That is scary. Because I called, telling them that I abhor the new Coke, and refuse to buy it in the future. They said OK, thanks for letting us know, and took my address and phone number. They said nothing about sending me coupons. Now I wonder--will they send me coupons without asking and credit me with a positive response? If I get some, I will of course return them with a written comment. By the way, I would like to boycott all Coke products. Surely some of those are hard to identify. (I was boycotting all Hunt-Wesson stuff many years ago because of dear, sweet, old H.L. Hunt. I was always finding strange things that they made--often with no indication on the package.) How does one find out such things about a large conglomerate? Also, have you seen the latest Bill Cosby ads for New Coke? In it, he talks about how he always liked the taste of Coke, but now thinks the new stuff is the best Coke ever. It appears that now Coke is resorting to an appeal to the "lost lambs". -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 222-6600 x366 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john Silly Quote: "He doesn't do anything right... He's saving the Old Pepsi." - Johnny Carson New COKE- the refreshment that pauses. -- Sue Brezden Real World: Room 1B17 Net World: ihnp4!drutx!slb AT&T Information Systems 11900 North Pecos Westminster, Co. 80234 (303)538-3829 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send lawyers, guns, and money... -Warren Zevon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~