Re: On Requesting Merchandise
Re: On Requesting Merchandise
- Subject: Re: On Requesting Merchandise
- From: Tim Vandecasteele <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:32:17 +0100
Hello,
i've spent some time on this mailinglist (although passive) and i have a similar question.
I've already seen the ask for merchandise link on the apple website, but i can only find
info about user groups asking stuff. Now my problem comes, I want to start a user group
(more exactly a campus group) here in Ghent (Belgium). And to find some other mac
users and people who are interested in mac, i thought some merchandising stuff would
be a good way to get attention.
PS: I already read somewhere that you need a professor to be in your mac user group, to
be recognised by apple, but i can't find something about it in the campus user guide, do you
know something about this?
thx Tim
Op 8-nov-04 om 17:23 heeft David Feng (Yan Feng/
馮巖) het volgende geschreven:
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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