On Requesting Merchandise
On Requesting Merchandise
- Subject: On Requesting Merchandise
- From: David Feng (Yan Feng/�T�r) <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 00:23:37 +0800
Good Monday Morning to all... at least State-side it is. Since a few
dozen minutes in Beijing, blackness, MIDNIGHT on Tuesday.
Onwards: Having paid a visit to apple.com/usergroups and having
dilly-dallied in the Leaders section, I found this:
Request Merchandise
Is your groups hosting a special event? Your group's ambassador may
request giveaways such as t-shirts or posters on Apple Sales Web.
(Subject to availability.)
If I was not mistaken, back a mere two years ago (26 dog years? I'm
losing count here...), that Request Merchandise phrase was a link to a
form. A mere form at best, but at least it was a form about requesting
merchandise, and when you clicked Submit, stuff was supposed to be
coming to your group.
Now though, in 2004, we have this additional phrase called "subject to
availability". I do wonder what this means, and for that, a simple
question: Is It Still On?
The situation on why I'm asking the question here: Our Beijing
Macintosh User Group used to be a volcano. Literally. Lava (read:
meetings) would spill out into the Beijing community world -- molten
(read: more than the gang in the capital of the PRC can handle it). The
last month of December 2002 saw no more than four eruptions -- four
meetings. 2003 continued with meetings until the end of the year. And
you wonder why Spaghetti (note -- Italy has plenty of volcanoes --
hence the Italian link) has such a Chinese connection.
And then, just like Mount St Helens, we went extinct. Read -- dormant.
Our group was caught up in internal strife over dealings or misdealings
with another Beijing group. We couldn't decide if it was war one moment
or work the other. In the midst of this confusion, meetings only
happened in May, August and September 2004 -- as the Beijing Macintosh
Union.
Things got better, though. Despite a low of just three members
attending our September 2004 meeting, the count increased to about
eight just today. Our user group is planning a "MacMeet Beijing 2004"
event at the end of November 2004 with even more members and
participants as we solidify our links with
We were most fortunate to receive a very respectful shipment from Apple
back when the four letters of the year read "2002". Back then, the
hottest thing on the planet -- the AirPort base station in snow white
(minus the seven dwarves). Apple's font was still Apple Garamond.
Everything was easier on a Mac was still the big old slogan out there.
Technology changes, though! Our stockpile of Mac posters are now pretty
dated, and we're out of date. Should we not be getting a fresh new
influx of items -- posters in Apple Myriad, for example, or about newer
products -- our posters would most likely end up with something on
them; called, of course, ladies and gentlemen, cobwebs. They may be
good (spiders) on Google but in the real world in the PRC, cobweb
posters aren't all that fun.
So the real question is: can we still request merchandise for our
Beijing group? Our situation taken into account, of course.
Very sincerely yours,
David Feng
President - Beijing Macintosh User Group
http://www.beimac.com/
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