You think this is a set-up by He-whose-name-must-not-be-spoken, Richard?
I think your tinfoil beanie is on a little too tight.

Judging from the responses, I'm NOT surprised he hasn't come back. Why
would he want to spend time corresponding with a bunch of people who
immediately jump to the conclusion that he's a fraud? A reasonable
reaction would be "F*** you all and the canoes you paddled in on."

You'll note that i explicitly invited him back. Perhaps we'll learn
something if he responds. You may be right.

Steve

Oci-One Kanubi wrote:
Steve, how do you know he's "a freaking business student"?

O, yeh: you read it on the Internet.

It's hard for me, today, to imagine how I would have behaved when I
was 40 years younger and less-experienced, but I'm troubled by the
fact that he hasn't come back and tried to engage any of us in our
criticisms. I'd think, if he were really a student at a high-end
university, and this were really a class project for credit, he would
not have relplied -- hurt and puzzled, perhaps -- trying to find out
what the h. we're going on about.

I think it's all a set-up. Maybe by our friend, or maybe by someone
else.

-Richard, His Kanubic Travesty
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On Apr 1, 9:05 pm, Steve Cramer wrote:
How many times can I say this? He is not a manufacturer. He's a freaking
business student, who has just learned that it's a good idea to survey
his target market.

Gedanken experiment: how would you have answered if you hadn't had the
Sp**son experience? Several people mentioned it specifically, which
indicates that this guy caught a bunch of residual crap aimed at Timmy.

I don't think I'm the one who need to lighten up.

And by the way, there are a number of brands of canoe and kayak
flotation enhancers on the market, and guess what, people do buy them.
Not US, of course, but, surprising as it may be, the paddling sun does
not rise and set on the 25 or so people who still post here.

Steve



Brian Nystrom wrote:
Al K wrote:
Steve Cramer wrote:
Geez, cut the guy some slack, woodja? It's a school project,
fercrissakes. He's not an inventor, he hasn't built any of these
things, he and his classmates just got an idea and went to paddlers
(what a concept!) to see if the idea had legs. Now he knows it
doesn't. No need to beat him up.
Steve
Steve,
I agree. Give him feedback but don't belittle him.
Lighten up, will ya?. If anything, we're doing him a BIG favor. We may
be a tough crowd, but we're nothing compared to what he would face in
the actual marketplace. It's better that he takes few lumps and learns a
valuable lesson about market research while he's still in school. He may
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